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What would happen if you have a broadband failure and your internet connections went down?
Nowadays, most companies rely on their broadband connection for many day-to-day business activities. Losing broadband connectivity, even for a short period, can cause real problems. With no email and no Internet access, business may be lost and work can grind to a halt.
It may surprise you to know that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) cannot guarantee that a broadband connection will always work. Instances such as cables being damaged by roadworks, line faults and power outages at an Exchange will all cause connections to go down and are outside of an ISP’s control. It may then take considerable time for the connections to be fixed. For example, BT says that their target repair time for ‘faults with an access line is 48 hours’, but then go on to state that ‘more complex broadband network faults may take longer than this to be cleared’. Could your business afford to be without broadband for 2 days or more?
Implementing a failover solution will minimise downtime should your broadband connection go down. A failover solution switches over to a second broadband connection in the event of the failure of the first. However, if your primary connection is an ADSL line (for example), installing a second ADSL line as a back-up may not be the most robust solution. This is because both connections will share cables in the same road and potentially could share the same Exchange, so both would fail at once should a cabling or Exchange problem occur. A better alternative is to have a second connection that accesses the Internet in a completely different manner.
3G mobile broadband failover solution
For businesses using an ADSL line as their primary Internet connection, that’s where 3G mobile broadband comes in. Rather than connecting via a landline, mobile broadband uses mobile phone networks for high-speed connection to the Internet. With the widespread availability of 3G mobile networks, which provide Internet access at much faster speeds than (say) a dial-up connection, failover of your Internet connection to mobile broadband has now become feasible.
You will need acceptable 3G coverage in your postcode area, a 3G USB modem with a Fixed IP address SIM (note that these need to be of a particular type - the 3G modems that you can easily purchase on the High Street or online will not work!), a router capable of supporting the 3G modem/SIM and a matching data contract with a mobile phone company. Tech OP Ltd will arrange provision of all of these things for you and check that you have adequate 3G coverage. We will also set up your systems so that if your ADSL line fails, you can be switched over to the 3G network until such time as the connection is restored. Email services, web browsing and connection in by remote workers will all still be available to you.
Emergency Broadband solution for ADSL line failures
Other internet disaster recovery failover options may also be possible. For example, if you have cable broadband we could arrange failover to an ADSL line, or if you prefer cable we can arrange for a Dual WAN 3G Failover Solution.
If your business relies on the Internet, 3G mobile broadband failover will give you the assurance and convenience of uninterrupted access at an affordable price. We can quickly arrange a same day courier to ship the necessary equipment to your site, and then help with on-site installation and configuration, so that you are up and running as quickly as possible. Ideally you should pre-empt this and have a 3G failover system installed on your site ready to go, so that any internet access interruption for your organisation is minimised.
Contact us now for a quotation.
Please check your Vodafone 3G Coverage in your area.