A customer that is running an application that would benefit from a high-speed connection to the Internet. Much Faster Your server will benefit from a much faster connection connection to the Internet. Pipeline has multiple high-speed links to the Internet which allow your server to send data at speeds of up to 4000Kbps. Compare this with an ISDN connection which can transmit a 128Kbps max, or a modem connection which can transmit at 33.6K max. Also because your server is connected to the Internet via ethernet, there is much less latency.
Latency is measure of how long it takes for data to travel over any given link.
A lightly loaded modem connection has a latency of between 100 and 200ms, ISDN has latency of 50 to 100ms, ethernet has a latency of only a few ms. Lower latency helps boost the speed of your server even further. If you have your server at your premise you need some sort of full time connection to connect the server to the Internet. For very light loads a 56K modem will do the trick, but in most cases this is not fast enough and you would need use a 128K ISDN line. When you run a permanent connection and have the server at your own premise, you can use the permanent connection to provide internet access to other computers at your premise also.