Business continuity and disaster recovery planning is increasingly seen as an essential requirement for enterprise and government networks. The ability to maintain data and voice connectivity in the face of emergencies, natural disasters or terrorist attacks must be part of every network manager’s planning. Having a network backup capability ensures communication support for business continuity efforts, and also reduces the cost of lost revenue, loss of employee productivity and loss of critical infrastructures during a network outage.

Since the recent disaster in the Gulf coast in September 2005, there is especially high visibility of the importance of planning for not just transitory outages from accidents or network problems but also for long-term outages. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Spacenet's satellite services helped major oil companies, retailers and logistics companies quickly replace damaged terrestrial communications networks and resume critical operations and supply-chain communications. VSAT served as an ideal disaster recovery solution since it can be deployed virtually anywhere, does not depend on the local phone infrastructure, can be installed on parked vehicles or docked ships, and can provide support for Internet, voice and commercial transaction data.

Spacenet Services for Network Backup and Business Continuity
Spacenet's Connexstar On-Demand VSAT service provides enterprise and government users with backup connectivity via satellite to ensure mission-critical application support when primary networks fail. Connexstar On-Demand can be deployed almost anywhere and does not depend on local phone infrastructure, making it an ideal solution for organizations seeking 100% network uptime.
Other benefits of Connexstar On-Demand backup solutions include:

  • Physically diverse network path to terrestrial alternatives
  • Easily and quickly deployable
  • Seamlessly integrated with primary networks
  • Scaleable and flexible service options

In addition, the Cisco IP VSAT Module with Spacenet services provides a unique solution for mission-critical disaster recovery/backup networking and other on demand applications, integrated directly with a customer’s existing Cisco router equipment. Leveraging the industry’s most advanced satellite technology, it delivers available-anywhere broadband capabilities that can be used for failover connectivity, digital content delivery, IP telephony, Internet/VPN access and more.

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