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On August 5 1999, one of the most infamous events in modern telecommunication history took place when a significant portion of a major carrier’s Frame Relay Data network suffered a massive outage
The outage lasted over ten days and had inflicted a variance of financial hardships on customers using this particular network. From being a major inconvenience and disruption of large corporate customers who had the financial resources to implement survivability plans*, to causing the failure and shut down of smaller businesses whose main source of income relied on the network being available, tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue was suffered by the carrier’s customers.
September 11, 2001 also changed the face of telecommunications strategies as businesses today are more cognizant than ever about planning for outages and disasters.
While network survivability will never become a 100% guarantee, there are methods and new technologies available to move your business’ communications network availability to 99.99% and greater.
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