Is Your Business Prepared for the Next Disaster?
Who would have thought we would see the Brisbane floods of January 2011? Who would have thought half of the CBD would be shut down, and communications networks would be compromised for weeks? Can your business afford for your network to stop working? Can you afford the financial and productivity losses your business would incur if you were unable to run your business due to loss of network or Internet connectivity?
Business Continuity Planning for your mission critical networks
Access to the Internet has become mission critical for most organisations. With a continuous shift towards online business and an increase in the use of applications such as VoIP, Cloud Computing, Hosted Applications and email communications, the Internet has become integral to key business operations and IT infrastructure. If your business does not have an Internet failover strategy in place, your mission critical applications and online operations are at risk from a single point of failure.
Businesses take great care in planning their business continuity with redundant gateways, firewalls, switches, routers and other highly available network components. However, a more frequent cause of failures, and often less protected, is the data or Internet link from their carrier. Internet or data network failure comes in different shapes and sizes.
- A Denial of Service attack or a virus can cripple a provider.
- Equipment failures or misconfigurations occur, and can take time to diagnose and resolve.
- Fibre cuts due to roadwork and construction.
- Some physical catastrophe such as floods, fire or earthquakes.
Whatever the reason the result is the same: despite all your efforts to make your network highly available, your connectivity comes to an abrupt halt just the same.
Allegro - A Disaster Proof Network Option
Allegro is uniquely placed to provide absolute backup for your internet and data links, by supplying backup links that are diverse in all aspects:
- Media - we utilise carrier grade wireless technologies
- Path - we protect your links through the air, complementing fibre and copper networks
- Carrier - independent of the major carriers, we build and operate our own network
True connectivity redundancy can only be achieved if you have media, path and carrier redundancy. This level of diversity ensures there is no single point of failure between your primary and secondary links.
For this reason, Allegro's highly available carrier grade wireless network is a perfect compliment to your fibre or copper services. Allegro builds and supports its own network, thereby ensuring that we are able to provide the true redundancy required in case of network failures.
Enjoy the peace of mind that you are backed up by one of the few networks in Queensland that enjoyed 100% uptime during the recent floods.