Redundant Communications

Looking to disaster-proof your network?

Hurricanes.  Earthquakes.  Wild fires.

Life on earth can be unpredictable.  This creates challenges for industries where reliability is paramount.  To survive a natural disaster, redundant communications will ensure you have visibility over key aspects of your operations and your people, allowing you to restore services or respond to emergencies as rapidly as possible.

Earth movement can offset microwave towers or lead to damage to underground fiber networks while strong winds and heavy rain can disrupt microwave transmission. Furthermore, during natural disasters, often cell networks rapidly become overloaded by the public making calls to loved ones.  Mission critical organizations can’t rely solely on one communication channel to connect their people and assets.

Options for redundant communications:

1. Deploy a backup communications network – one of the best ways to retain some level of control during uncontrollable events is to deploy a fully redundant communications network.  Backing up your fiber and microwave links with high capacity, low latency point-to-point radio links is a cost-effective way to ensure you can maintain your mission critical operations in the event that your primary network fails.

2. Build redundant communications only where you need it – to maintain the criticality of certain applications in the grid or connectivity between key points in your voice network, an additional step can be to add 1+1 redundancy where it is most needed.  Deploying a 1+1 redundant communications system with a hot swappable radio on standby ensures that should one radio fail, the backup radio fires up to take over.  Furthermore, a redundant antenna system can be deployed alongside the 1+1 radio setup.

Key benefits of deploying redundant communications:

• Minimize outage times and ensure your core operations are maintained when your network is compromised;
• Narrowband radio offers greater immunity to weather-induced signal fading compared to microwave and is resilient to damage during ground movement, unlike fiber and copper wires;
• Maintain transmission even when antennas shift due to wide beamwidth;
• Positively impact your network availability stats;
• Divert data traffic to other parts of your network to avoid areas hardest hit in an emergency.

Get in touch with our team today to find out more about Redundant Communications from Mimomax.

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