Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) gives law firms a private, SLA-backed circuit with guaranteed symmetrical bandwidth — critical when e-discovery uploads, court e-filing deadlines, and client video conferences can’t wait for a shared connection to free up. We compare DIA availability, SLAs, and pricing across 200+ carriers for your offices, free.
Litigation support lives on uploads: multi-gigabyte e-discovery productions, trial exhibits, and document review platforms. Shared cable broadband often delivers a tenth of its download speed on uploads. DIA is symmetrical by definition — a 500 Mbps circuit uploads at 500 Mbps — which turns overnight productions into lunch-break tasks.
Bar obligations around client confidentiality make network architecture a professional-responsibility issue. Private DIA circuits, encrypted site-to-site connectivity between offices, and carrier-grade security services reduce exposure compared with consumer-grade connections — and make your security story clear when corporate clients send outside-counsel guidelines.
A courthouse deadline doesn’t care that your provider had an outage. Firms pair primary DIA with a failover circuit from a different carrier — often fixed wireless for true path diversity — with SD-WAN switching over automatically. For multi-office firms, we design the whole footprint so every office has a deadline-proof connection.
Whichever carrier has fiber in your building with the right SLA at the best price — commonly AT&T, Lumen, Comcast Business, Spectrum Enterprise, Verizon, or Zayo, but it varies address by address. We check all 200+ carriers for your offices and hand you the real options side by side, free — carriers pay us.
A 10-25 attorney office typically runs well on 200-500 Mbps symmetrical DIA. Litigation-heavy practices moving large e-discovery sets benefit from 500 Mbps to 1 Gbps, where symmetrical upload speed matters more than headline download numbers.
No rule mandates a specific circuit type, but bar guidance on safeguarding client data makes private, SLA-backed connectivity with encryption a defensible standard - and it satisfies the outside-counsel security guidelines corporate clients increasingly require.
With a properly designed failover - a second circuit from a different carrier with automatic SD-WAN switchover - nothing: the office keeps working. We design and price the redundant pair, not just the primary circuit.