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Leased Line
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Leased line is the earliest "First Mile" technology employed for broadband access. Seldom used for residential broadband access due to their high monthly rental cost, leased lines are most commonly used by medium and large businesses and organizations to provide broadband access to their employees over a Local Area Network. Leased lines are dedicated copper wire or fibre optic cable circuits connecting the customer premises directly to their Internet Service Provider. These are supplied mostly by the local phone company, but may also be supplied by competing independent telecommunications networks and third party vendors who gain access to the local phone company's lines via Local Loop Unbundling. Leased lines also play an important role as an intermediate connection to other "First Mile" broadband technologies such as Wi-Fi.
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