Business Continuity, a manual for keeping your online services
Information technology is at the heart of the organizations of today and many companies are now so dependent on their networks that they take for granted. In today’s 24 / 7 of the digital economy, imagine the business implications of critical data is lost, the Internet and e-mail is not available or your internal network down.
The effect of the unexpected to your company, or in the form of intentional damage, such as hacking or any kind of devastating natural disaster in the networked world. Take the 2007 flash floods in the UK. After the wettest May to July in the record, about 7100 businesses were flooded and damage costs estimated at three pounds milliards1. However, this figure does not include the cost of the loss of activity in this period, while some companies are incapable of a normal (if the service works), or the reputation that the inability to communicate caused. Nobody can predict the future, but by carefully planning ahead you can ensure that your business in the best possible position if and when the fault occurs.
To meet the demands of the resilience to deal with two unexpected and growing volumes of data, companies today need more capacity than a Next Generation Network. They need a combination of network capacity and a robust state of mind of the next generation of services from their telecom provider. When it comes to the resilience of the company, this is not simply a case of “one size fits all”. ntl: Telewest Business works closely with its customers and tailors its services to meet their needs. The next generation of the resilience of the company here.
Different industries have unique needs for resilience. In banking, for example, access to accurate purchasing, and real-time sales is essential and business continuity and resilience are considered so important that they are subject to specific regulations such as Basel II. However, for most companies, the rules and regulations are so strict niet, yet the consequences of a collapse of the system zonder er that adequate backup systems kan equally serious. This is especially true when one considers that according to the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 80 percent of small businesses fail within 18 months after experiencing a major problem with the network and 90 percent of companies losing data event of a disaster are forced to close within two years.
The undeniable fact is that all commercial buildings, regardless of the size of the organization or industry, faced with disaster risks and they need to bring certainty to the way they e-books store and use their information. Companies should be able to move their data to flow freely and it sure is 100 percent a backup of each site, to minimize the risk of each location and to ensure that data is the most important priority.
network capacity and flexibility to the technological platform for telecommunications providers to next-generation service resilience to continue. Besides the possibility of unexpected events, existing networks can withstand must cope with increasing amounts of information by businesses today. Their needs are a little advanced e-mail and web browsing to multimedia applications, image engine, the user-generated content and video recording. Dealing with this rapidly growing data volumes and the pace of business change, the nets are both scalable and highly durable. Rapidly growing workforce needs a constant and continuous access to corporate resources and next generation network can provide the flexibility and resilience.
ntl: Telewest Business’ £ 13000000000 Next Generation Network is specifically designed with the requirements of the digital age and spirit, based on fiber optic technology, it is very difficult. The Next Generation Network is capable of next generation IP and Ethernet services needed by companies in today’s rapidly changing, and that the bandwidth can be rapidly increased and painless to provide as a function of demand, scalability issues are resolved. Drastically reducing the amount of errors on their networks, operators must now also link much earlier in the proactive management of the network. With continued monitoring of its network, ntl: Telewest Business to ensure that potential problems can be identified before they have problems. Consequently, both the performance of the network and user experience is significantly improved.
Maintaining business continuity is not as simple as implementing two separate links to your company, there are a number of considerations must be taken into account. To what extent a client wants to ensure the resilience depends on the importance of their information and their budgets, but there are four key measures of business continuity that can be taken.
Since there are two broad access to networks in the UK, ntl: Telewest Business and BT, it is obvious that if the information is vital to your organization, you should not trust your services to a single network. After an alternative access to the network in place that ensures critical applications continue to function even if a vendor has a major failure. An alternative method of transmission can handle unexpected peaks in traffic and provide protection against denial of service attacks, which are designed for network traffic swamps and cause them to buckle.
The second business continuity measure is the abolition of a single point of failure on the availability of voice and data services. Rather than relying on a single network provider to provide connectivity between a site and the rest of the private network or the Internet offering, companies can run multiple links to their sites so that up-time and one of the lines accidentally damaged and unusable. In the event of network connectivity destroyed more than one way, the services to seamlessly switch to the backup connection, maintenance and continuous availability of data forwarding calls.
One of the most basic disaster recovery companies should take into account the spread their risks in the network. By creating a mirror system in which all information and applications are regularly and automatically backed up at different points on the network, can companies provide That information is protected in the event that part of the network is down.
Multiple Ethernet connections in a virtual private network (VPN) with all-to-all connectivity to their IT organizations across multiple sites to decentralize their business critical data to replicate. If a problem occurs, or a natural disaster or simply a power failure, workers can work from home and VPN remote connection, knowing that the network is secured and the work can continue as normal, but off-site. This all-in-all connectivity needs to win the backup circuit.
Finally, in the case of one of the main circuits of the organization down, causing all data to run over the other and increases the risk of a bottleneck in the network, prioritization of critical data is essential. The application of a maximum of eight classes of service from ntl: Telewest Business Network, with a predetermined quality of service (QoS) parameters will also ensure that critical data is supplied to companies to advance the verkeer is less dense priorities such as information on the Internet. In this way organizations can ensure their critical applications continue to perform at an optimum level, even in adverse conditions.
With such a range of options available for business continuity, organizations require a provider of Telco who is willing to sit down and the most suitable for their particular needs, risks and budget to discuss. ntl: Telewest Business works closely with all sizes of businesses, not only the largest customers in the budgets of important communication. Consulting and technology-savvy team of local services, both pre-sales project management, working hand in hand with customers to ensure they receive the best solutions for their business.
Resilience is what can only be achieved if the capacity of the system is merged with a high degree of access to consultations on the design of new network infrastructures. So far practice has been to legacy telco customers to keep at arm’s length by the services they use, and act as a supplier of circuit, rather than responding to customer needs. The next generation of telecommunications providers to invest in their services, not only their network, ensure that their customers feel connected to their teams of Telco, and network.
As a next generation telecommunications provider ntl: Telewest Business is committed to sit down with organizations, listening and understanding their individual needs. In this way can help clients appropriate measures to implement the risk voor programs of the type with traffic or in dit ontwerp a network with which the budget reflects weer.
A client-centered mentality and “can do” to ensure that the attitude of ntl: Telewest Business works with customers from the beginning, helping to plan, design and implement their networks. But it did not stop many of the same teams during the entire integration and while the network is active. Nobody can predict the future, but working with a telecommunications provider, that such a Next Generation Network and a customer-oriented mentality, you will be better prepared for any eventuality.
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