3 Ways to Keep Your Business Networks “Always On”
How do customers respond when their Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) is interrupted by an event out of their control? Customers can prevent downtime by adding a secondary failover system that automatically responds before you even know there’s an issue, says Dave Dubois, senior product manager for tw telecom.
tw telecom is more than a network provider; we offer solutions that enable resilience: Assured Connect, DDoS Scrubbing, and Alerts Driven Dynamic Capacity®. These solutions ensure that even when your customers experience unforeseen events, their businesses can continue operations uninterrupted.
Assuring business continuity
“A business continuity solution should always include a solid network failover service,” says Dubois. “tw telecom has a new solution called Assured Connect that provides businesses with a network resiliency option.”
Assured Connect will automatically detect if a network link is down, and within milliseconds will switch a location’s traffic to a secure backup connection. Assured Connect customers have great flexibility with their Internet failover network types, such as broadband-based Internet, cable, DSL, or wireless.
“Networks are becoming more resilient because of options like Assured Connect. People are beginning to understand that business resilience can be found in secondary failover systems like this,” explains Dubois.
Assured Connect is available to all current and new IP VPN customers. It includes visibility to tw telecom’s systems, which enables businesses to see how often their primary systems require assistance — and how quickly Assured Connect reacts.
“You just turn Assured Connect on and let it ride,” says Dubois. “We recently ran a test trial with a major grocery chain, and they didn’t even notice the transition to Assured Connect. They continued business as usual, and even transactions in process weren’t interrupted.”
Protecting network connections
Organizations today rely on persistent network connections to conduct business. Assured Connect from tw telecom adds resiliency to its IP VPN services by enabling diversity through commonly available broadband (e.g., DSL, Cable, 3G/4G LTE).
Businesses that leverage the internet to transact or communicate with end customers depend on their web presence to be highly available. tw telecom’s DDoS Scrubbing services offers monitoring and protection against denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that can knock them offline. These services from tw telecom ensure customers’ networks, whether private (IP VPN) or public (Internet) are always available by mitigating events that can cause downtime.
Optimizing bandwidth
Alerts Driven Dynamic Capacity® is a tw telecom offering that helps maintain business continuity by automating an organization’s response to bandwidth demand to prevent interruption of service and slowdowns.
With Alerts Driven Dynamic Capacity®, organizations can control costs by deciding when, where, and how much bandwidth is required. Alerts Driven Dynamic Capacity® allows enterprises to double or triple their network bandwidth on demand for prescheduled or unplanned events, without requiring additional internal resources or network downtime. The service allows users to establish network thresholds and receive alerts that let them automate management of the bandwidth their businesses need for their Ethernet traffic on public and private networks.
Because companies depend on their networks, networks have had to become more resilient. tw telecom works continually to provide that resiliency with solutions that make business continuity seamless.
