You conduct your business using the Internet in some capacity.
You’re a security professional, relying on radio over IP to conduct operation communications. You need to know that the communications link will be uninterrupted, so you’ve arranged for your police station data center to equip all your routing stations, both at stationary and mobile command centers, to switch directly from compromised land-based communications to redundant connections. But both connections are land-based. That’s hardly fail-safe Internet insurance.
You’re chief of staff of a major medical center. YourIT team ensures you all medical communications have redundant fiber paths to the Internet. But you wonder, how can this be? Redundant paths on land is hardly redundant, right? The paths are in the same city, and are probably supported somewhere up the pipe by the same vendor. That’s not perfect Internet insurance — and in healthcare, perfect counts for a lot.
Whatever your situation, using redundant dual fiber is just old thinking. Internet insurance means insuring your organization against failure to connect. Banking your bet on two land-based solutions puts at jeopardy more than your organization.
The one communications technology not dependent on the land around your facility is satellite Internet. The geosynchronous satellite technology 22,000 miles above is so far from terrestrial problems, it makes road construction, earthquakes and flooding irrelevant.
Internet insurance is your protection against your inability to access your important business connections for any reason:
- Your primary service was disabled by a storm
- A local utilities crew dug through your fiber
- Your telephone carrier went down
Satellite Internet is the perfect Plan B. It can also be the perfect Plan A. If your office is off grid, or the grid leaves much to be desired, satellite communications may be the best choice for your primary Internet connection.
If your wilderness is skyscrapers, it’s a pretty darned good second choice. If you’re wilderness is trees and mountains, satellite Internet may be your only first choice.
