Business Continuity: How To Manage When You Lose Your ISDN Circuits And Your ISDN Back Up!
Imagine if the local exchange went down and due to factors beyond your control your entire telecoms infrastructure went down as well.What would you do?
Lately there have been a number of such incidents occuring, mostly due to flooding.
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.
Well their is a solution. Take for instance the case of Satish Menon, finance controller of Precis Properties Group ltd. “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 are clearly a way to break the over reliance upon BT as they also provide the same level of functionality.SIP trunks are also much cheaper than ISDN circuits.
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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