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ARG’s TOP 15 TECH TIPS FOR 2015

ARG’s TOP 15 TECH TIPS FOR 2015. ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 | September 2014. TIP #9 Redundant Bandwidth: Failover or Failure. Erica Lord Director, Business Development. ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 | September 2014. TIP #9. 15 minutes can save your job and company from mayhem.

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ARG’s TOP 15 TECH TIPS FOR 2015

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  1. ARG’sTOP 15TECH TIPS FOR2015 ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

  2. TIP #9Redundant Bandwidth: Failover or Failure Erica Lord Director, Business Development ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

  3. TIP #9 15 minutes can save your job and company from mayhem. ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

  4. TIP #9 Redundant Bandwidth: Failover or Failure • Insurance is NOT the most interesting of topics. • Of course, no one says thanks when everything is up & working. • But mayhem can and will happen. • Historically, you have a 1-in-3 chance of a network event/year. So over a 3-year subscription, on average, you have 100% chance of an outage. • Lost network = lost customers = lost revenue = lost company-job • The best insurance is planningnot panicking. • But did you know redundancy is easily achievable today? ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

  5. TIP #9 Redundant Bandwidth: Failover or Failure There are now many enablers of manageable “always-on” Internet failover. • Alternate fiber access (can be as cheap at $700). • High[er] speed Ethernet-over-Copper alternatives equivalent to fiber. • Aggressively priced and increasingly available broadband cable (Comcast Business Class is $90-$160), FiOS, etc. • 4G • Providers who package dual ISP connectivity as a turn-key service. • Voice/SIP failover access via the Internet. • Everybody can find something in their budget for failover. ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

  6. TIP #9 Redundant Bandwidth: Failover or Failure Don’t get hung up on how to make it work – we can help with that. • Go simple and wireless • You could deploy a device (or redundant devices) • BGP • SIP failover to an internet based carrier • Everybody can find an technical option for failover. ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

  7. TIP #9 Redundant bandwidth isn’t optional anymore. If you don’t have backup internet in 2015, get it! ARG’s Top 15 Tech Tips For 2015 |September 2014

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