Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) gives banks, credit unions, and financial firms a private, SLA-backed circuit with guaranteed symmetrical bandwidth — the connectivity standard when trading platforms, core banking systems, and client portals can’t afford downtime. We compare DIA availability, SLAs, and pricing across 200+ carriers for your locations, free.
When wire transfers, market data feeds, core banking, and client-facing portals ride the internet connection, shared broadband introduces risk you can’t quantify: bandwidth that fluctuates with neighborhood usage and no guaranteed repair clock. DIA gives you contractual certainty — fixed symmetrical bandwidth, latency commitments, and an SLA with financial remedies.
GLBA safeguards, FFIEC guidance, and SOC 2 programs all expect documented, resilient infrastructure. Private DIA circuits (often paired with MPLS or encrypted SD-WAN between branches) make network segmentation and vendor documentation cleaner at exam time. We provide the carrier SLAs and diversity documentation your compliance team needs.
Branch: 100–300 Mbps DIA with wireless failover is the common pattern. Headquarters or operations center: 500 Mbps – 1 Gbps+ with dual carriers on diverse paths and SD-WAN failover. Trading or fintech environments: latency-sensitive routes justify carrier-specific engineering — we compare actual latency commitments, not just price.
The best provider is the one with fiber at your specific addresses, the right SLA, and competitive pricing — commonly AT&T, Lumen, Comcast Business, Spectrum Enterprise, Verizon, or Zayo, but it changes block by block. As an independent broker we run every location through 200+ carriers and present real options side by side. Carriers pay us, so the comparison is free.
Financial institutions typically require 99.99% uptime on primary circuits, a four-hour mean-time-to-repair commitment, and automatic credits. Latency and jitter commitments matter for real-time payment and trading systems.
No regulation names DIA specifically, but examiners expect resilient, documented infrastructure. Private SLA-backed circuits with carrier diversity make resilience planning and vendor management documentation much cleaner.
The common pattern is DIA at each branch with automatic wireless failover, dual diverse carriers at headquarters and operations centers, and SD-WAN to manage failover so staff and customers never notice an outage.