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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.
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.
iComm Instant Communications
The Cisco iComm system for instant and mobile communications
provides an all-in-one solution for local wired and wireless connectivity
that utilizes the Cisco IP VSAT Module as the backhaul to the
public Internet or private corporate/agency network. Spacenet
offers network access services for the Cisco iComm system, ranging
from narrowband to broadband, and from full-time to usage-based/on-demand.
iComm can be used as a rapidly deployable communications base
for any temporary site (construction site, energy facility, public
event, etc.) iComm can also be a critical component of disaster
recovery preparedness for state and local governments or public
safety agencies, and can provide enterprises with the ability
to stay connected during disasters or other extended network outages.
Spacenet On-Demand Services
Spacenet’s Connexstar On-Demand service provides a low
monthly base cost with usage-based billing (either by time used
or packets sent) – ideal for backup and disaster recovery
services. These on-demand options can be used with Connexstar
data services, VoIP services, or both.
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.
- Customer configures Cisco VSAT NM as failover networking path
- Optional IPSec Internet backhaul/private line set up to route data from the Spacenet hub
- When satellite service interruption occurs, the VSAT automatically switches over to the failover connection after pre-specified time period
- After terrestrial connectivity is restored, the connection automatically switches back to the primary network
Spacenet's On-Demand services for backup/disaster recovery includes a set amount of usage, with additional usage on a per 8-hour increment basis. Spacenet monitors the traffic usage per VSAT and records it in 3-hour usage untis (e.g. a VSAT that was active for 30 minutes will be recorded as 1 usage unit; a VSAT that was active for 3 hours and 15 minutes will be recorded as 2 usage units).
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