Managing Your Business Continuity In The Event Of Losing Your ISDN Circuit And ISDN Back Up.
Have you ever thought about what you would do if your entire telecommunications infrastructure went down AND moreover it wasnt even your fault.? Let’s say it was connected to something that happened outside your control at the local exchange for example.
There have been a number of incidents like this recently largely due to flooding.But the point is why wait for it to happen, whether it be flooding or any other cause for that matter.
At the Paddington exchange in London recently flooding meant that 437 local exchanges became affected along with 37,500 broadband connections.O2 and Vodafone were also affected.
Because a lot of businesses still rely on ISDN both for their main connection and as back up this leaves them very vulnerable to any potential disaster.
The following case involving Satish Menon finance controller of Precis Properties illustrates a salutary lesson. “We are based in Paddington so a number of our services were severely disrupted when the Exchange was out of action. All of our ISDN lines were down but thanks to the good work of GlemNet and the SIP trunks they had provided as back up we continued to work as normal throughout the outage.”
SIP Trunks provide a connectivity and a functionality for your telecoms just as in the same way ISDN does but without the dependence upon BT. In other words what’s the point of having any form of IDSN back up when the same reason that your primary circuit might go down is connected to your back up as well?
Not only do Sip Trunks provide an effective alternative back up to ISDN but they are considerably cheaper too.In fact some companies are using SIP as a COMPLETE replacement service due to their reliability and the vast savings available. In this instance should the primary route fail the secondary route would automatically take over keeping the current calls alive. When the Primary route is stable it can be brought back into service either automatically or manually without disruption of service thereby offering a robust and resilient solution suitable as an ISDN replacement service.
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