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Disaster Recovery (DR),
Is Your Company Ready?
There are many forms of disaster recovery
including voice and data communications
from carrier services. The hard questions
that need to be asked include:
What happens if you lose the ability to
make/receive calls?
What does your telephone carrier
offered in regards to disaster recovery?
What happens when you lose the ability to transmit/receive data
at your site?
What Can Happen That Puts Your Company In A Disaster Mode?
The telephone cable has been cut up by a contractors backhoe!
A truck knocked down the telephone pole that has your service!
It rained and your old cable got wet!
Fire damage, water damage, it snowed!
The list goes on…
The Carrier Told Us Our T1, ISDN Prime and Pots Lines Will Be Down
For Over 6 Hours!
What can you do?
1.
Voice calls can be routed to another phone number/location. This
can be done manually or automatically. Want the capability to remotely
change the number that calls go to? It’s possible, ask Sound
Incorporated how.
2.
Voice calls can be completed over the cellular
network from your office telephone system. Systems can be set up
to make/receive calls on special cellular equipment if the main
lines are not available but the plan needs to be in place before
the disaster occurs. (Note: use this configuration to take advantage
of Cellular Carriers offering free cell to cell calling to reach
your personnel in the field from your office phones AT NO CHARGE).
3.
Data
traffic can be sent wireless (Sound Ink, Issue 2, 2006). Reliable
carriers exist that can supply high speed data service as your
primary connection or for a reduced rate be used as a “Back
Up” service. Voice calls can be converted to data packets (VoIP)
and sent via alternate data channels.
There are many solutions to prepare for many events, these are just
a few.
Do you have a DR question? Please contact Voice and Data Sales Director,
Bob Kintz (rkintz@soundinc.com).
