Tag Archives: WAN Redundancy

28 Aug

Answers for Today’s K-12 Network

Summer time fun is over and kids all over the country are going back to school or are already back in school.  The image of a small kid hauling a backpack filled with books is fast fading in favor of computer savvy kids with laptop, smart phones, tablets, and ipad’s!  Juxtaposed with the rapid movement of teaching, homework assignments, student records on line, etc. are bound to increase the workload and stress of most network administrators.

The Internet plays a vital part of daily activity in today’s K-12 network.  Students, teachers and administrators are using this tool as a means of expanding the classroom experience.  Network administrators are facing increasing pressure from federal, state, and local regulators to ensure it can meet ever growing demands.

Limitations in access to the Internet and other wide area network resources can affect an institutions ability to meet these directives.  Slow speeds and unresponsive systems are sure to raise the heckles of students, teachers and parents alike (not to mention school administrators).  Unfortunately, the network admin staff is the first ones blamed.  But fear not, planning and the use of technology can assist in overcoming and resolving many network related problems.  BYOD, PARCC and other requirements can be met along with a marked reduction in stress.  You can learn more from this informative paper.

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27 Aug

Time Warner Cable Down – Internet Service Disrupted

I woke up to the news that Time Warner Cable backbone had gone down this morning.  The report said TWC was handling a large volume of calls from customers.  I am not surprised.  Connectivity has long moved from the ‘nice to have” column to the “imperative” column.  Customers need connectivity for a variety of reasons.  I have no doubt business reasons predominate.

Fortunately for my team and myself, FatPipe customers are able to carry on due to the WAN redundancy FatPipe technology provides.  While the customers have an interest to get the TWC connection up as quickly as possible – having a redundant connection affords them the luxury of time.

FatPipe’s router clustering technology would have been the perfect foil for this unforeseen event.  While admittedly the available bandwidth would be smaller without the TWC connection, the secondary connection allows for uninterrupted connectivity.  If you do not have WAN redundancy and were unfortunate enough to use TWC, we at FatPipe are here to assist you with reliability and redundancy solutions.

14 Jul

Designing the Perfect WAN: Business Continuity via WAN Redundancy

Resolve Wide Area Network bandwidth issues and eliminate network downtime.

The network plays a vital part in business activity in today’s market. Companies require viable Internet/WAN connectivity in order to succeed in an increasingly competitive and global business landscape and to insure that business is not interrupted. This paper explores how companies use the network to conduct day-to-day functions that help employees, customers, partners, suppliers and investors.

Click HERE to download the white paper