Is Your Business Disaster Ready? Find Out What You Need to Know About Disaster Recovery Services

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Every business must confront the topic of disaster preparedness. It’s also one of those things we must maintain and keep up-to-date whether it’s back-up services or emergency strategies. While we realize it may end up on a business’ back-burner, people quickly find out it’s completely necessary when it’s necessary.

There are several ways to approach your businesses’ disaster plans in the Cloud. Cloud disaster recovery is becoming an easy, cost-effective, and now more secure than ever plan to keep your company from being tragically effected by an unforeseen disaster (loss of data, security breach, loss of business connectivity and continuity during a natural disaster).

Where to begin: Telecom Agents can help determine what plan is best for your business needs. Of course we’d encourage this route, we’re Telecom agents, but seriously this is your best bet to end up with your best plan of action.

First, you must determine your level of need. This isn’t necessarily how likely you are to e effected as much as it is how much it could hurt you and how much you have to lose. No business can afford to lose to a disaster- many will eventually end of bankrupt! Benefit versus risk is a ration we deal with often in business. Of course this is off-set by how much a business can afford to spend on a disaster recovery plan.

This is why we’ve taken special interest in disaster Cloud Recovery services. There are so many to choose from. Again, that’s why we’re the Agents- we’ve got a handle on this for you. We can help! Just to give you an idea…

Evolve IP Cloud Recovery plan, DRaas suite,  entails data protection and automated options for business continuity, match level of risk and spend accordingly. Customers not only know where their data is backed up, they also know how and when they will have it restored.

They suggest 3 aspects to consider:

  • Source of System – Whether your system is onsite, in the Evolve IP Cloud, or elsewhere.
  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – How current your data is at the recovery site.
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – How long it should take to bring an environment back online once a disaster or major incident is declared.

Evolve IP’s DRaaS Suite products are designed to deliver a wide range of RPO/RTO service levels, with RPO’s measured in seconds, not hours. The Evolve IP DRaaS Suite includes:

  • DRaaS SRM (EMC as a Service) – Standard and Premium
  • DRaaS ZT – Standard and Premium
  • DRaaS DK – One-to-One
  • DRaaS DT – One-to-One and Many-to-One
  • Cloud Backup/Reflection – Standard and Enterprise

Airespring will tell you ‘Downtime can cost you’. They also provide services, such as Managed Failover, for just the occasion- you know, the one you weren’t planning for.

Managed Failover provides a separate, redundant network connection in the event your primary connection fails. While the AireSpring Network already includes multiple levels of redundancy to ensure high availability for our Cloud and Voice Network or private MPLS Networks, Managed Failover offers an additional level of high availability connectivity at your location.

Other features include:

  • AireSpring’s Managed Failover Connectivity will automatically detect access issues with the primary connection and route traffic over the redundant connection until service is restored to the primary connection.
  • AireSpring professionally configures the router, then manages and monitors your network with the help of our 24/7 AireNMS network monitoring service.
  • AireSpring Voice and MPLS services can also be configured to automatically failover.
  • Diversified connectivity options are available using a wide range of underlying vendors: Ethernet (copper and fiber), EOC, TDM, Cable, DSL and Wireless.

Integra Telecom Promotions

Don’t forget about Integra Telecom’s promotion this March. There’s still time to take advantage of new pricing promotions.

Low promotional rates on Integra’s flagship 10M Ethernet Service, popular T1 combinations, and dedicated data T1s.

 Ethernet Service: Up to 16 voice sessions- $499 (36 mo term MRR).

Integrated Access Service (SIP Solutions) – ranging from T1 (1.5 Mbps for $299) to T4 (6.0 Mbps for $799)

 Each of the 10M Ethernet or Integrated Access Service promotions include Integra’s Feature Pack Plus, which includes features like Premium Voicemail, Call Waiting, Caller ID, 3-Way Calling, Call Forward, plus up to 50 DID numbers.

 Add-on packages are available as well: ValuePlan + ISP Package + Online Data Storage ranging from $49 to $89.

 Current Integra customers can boost their integrated access bandwidth with additional T1’s. Additional bonded T1 for $199

Business Tips from Albert Einstein

Business and technology are typically synonymous with the future. We don’t even have time for living in the present when it comes to technology, we are already thinking of the future. We rarely look back if only to know how to improve upon and update some form of technology. For the most part, we don’t want to look back so what could Einstein have to offer our 21st century world of business technology?

 

Wisdom should not be underrated when it comes to business. Einstein was ahead of his time with wisdom applicable to many areas, including business.

 

Albert Einstein said, “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” What value does your business offer the industry? What value do you hold for your customers? People want to know what value is in your business, what you will bring to them.

 

Simple may not be a word that comes to mind when we think about Einstein. But he once said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible but not any simpler”. Telecom should be about customers getting what they want the way they want it. Nothing should be made more difficult than it has to be. Telecom should make business easier, more efficient. We’re in the business of solutions. When technology becomes overwhelming to manage and use, then it’s not serving its intended purpose.  

 

Secure Telecom Solutions

A major concern among businesses seeking certain Telecom services is ‘how secure is our network?’ or ‘how secure is our data?’. These are valid concerns and one that we’ll address here is the option for SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) over MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching). SIP over MPLS provides an alternative to SIP over Internet access or SIP Trunking. While these approaches are more typical, they are not the most secure.

Benefits of SIP over MPLS are improved call quality with low latency, better end-to-end quality of service, and MPLS avoids exposure to the public Internet and control over your lines. This is what makes it superior in security.  On an MPLS network a denial-of-service attack isn’t going to happen, along with a number of other security concerns- wiped away with MPLS.  It basically acts as a virtual private network.

If you have security concerns for your business, avoiding public Internet is key and SIP over MPLS is an excellent solution and MPLS service is a lot better service concerning performance and even savings as well.

Questions about your security or MPLS services, NWMAP can give you free answers, reviews of your current services and bills, and a free quote. Contact information https://nwmap.com/contact-us and free quote https://nwmap.com/contact-us/request-quote

Make the Most of Cloud Technology for Your Business

Not too long ago, NWMAP introduced Cloud Firewall Services (CFS) from Integra Telecom https://nwmap.com/new-from-integra-cloud-firewall-services-cfs . More businesses are becoming interested and utilizing cloud technology. One of the caveats to this is even the IT departments can’t keep up with changing demands of new new products and services so it’s important to take stock of what you have and what you need before embarking on new technological territory. 

Of course the agents at NWMAP can give you free quotes and assess your needs for free. A telecom broker is always a good service to use for something so important as your business’ efficiency and bottom line. They can help a business make a smooth transition to using cloud services. Here are some tips about utilizing cloud technology:

  • Assess the demands cloud technology will place on your current network. For bandwidth concerns it may be wise to contact a Telecom Agent or your provider.
  • Realize that cloud is only as secure and reliable as its connection.
  • For your network’s ability to handle cloud services, you must know your network’s scalability, reliability, redundancy and quality of service (Qos).
  • Consider ethernet or MPLS- it can lower costs.
  • What is your plan with using Cloud based services? Applications?
  • Make an existing overview of how many employees, how much use/transactions, determine busy points of usage. Calculate bytes usage based on this info and determine bandwidth usage.
  • There will be a lot of estimating and guesswork, but a Telecom agent can significantly reduce chances for errors.

To contact a Telecom Broker, click here: https://nwmap.com/contact-us