Is your business basically down when you lose your internet connection? Our connection was out for a short time this afternon and our work started to grind to a halt. Crucially, our phones are out as well when the connection is down. We quickly forwarded our phones to cell phone lines, but it was still a painful reminder of our dependence on “the connection”.
Barracuda, among others, has a device to ease the pain and provide solid reliability. Their “Link Balancer” device lets you plug in several internet connections and automatically distributes the load among them. Then, in the event of a failure on one connection the device switches your load to another live connection. So if say your primary T-1 line goes down you can run on a DSL or cable connection until the T-1 is restored. You may well have slow connection speeds and may have to curtail some activity, but you will not be dead in the water. You could also have redundant T-1 lines from separate vendors. However, if they run over the same AT&T or other common local carrier you could lose both at the same time – do a little research. It is likely that while one service is down, other types of service will still be functional.
When you have an Internet link failure, the Barracuda Link Balancer will automatically route your traffic to another available Internet connection without administrator intervention. The Link Balancer will then check the offline connection so that you get fast reconnection when Internet service is restored. “By automatically detecting link health and failure, the Barracuda Link Balancer assists administrators by providing a worry-free redundant connectivity to the Internet. ” per Barracuda.
Barracuda has 2,3 and 6 connection devices available.
Seems like one way to have more business peace of mind – for a price of course!
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