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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Author: Eugene Alcide
by Eugene Alcide
Posted: Sep 12, 2018

Does your business have a plan b option if things go wrong? Did you know the average cost of downtime if £5000 per day! Make sure your telephone system have disaster recovery in place, this could be, fail-overs or diverts.

Business Continuity or (BC), refers to the process of a business still being able to function on delivering products and services at acceptable levels of quality after an incident within the business occurs. Business continuity is crucial for businesses, especially where communications are concerned. Of course, if your telephone systems go down, your business is losing money, ensure any business telephone system you have installed has a failover plan.

Telecommunications Business Continuity

In many cases, businesses can lose unparalleled amounts of capital and un-measurable good faith if for example your information systems go down and fail. All businesses that wish to protect their capital should implement a Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Where telecommunications is concerned there are many solutions in which businesses can protect themselves against natural disasters. The average cost of business telephone systems going down in the hotel sector is a staggering £10,000 per day, don’t get caught out, ensure your telephone system has a failover option.

Business Continuity For Telecommunications & Disaster Recovery Planning

If the inevitable does happen to your organisation which is possible, here at Best 4 Business Communications we can help if any of the following occasions occur.

Normal business fault

Power Loss

Lightning strike

Fraudulent attack

Malware threats

Fire

Floods

Telecoms Continuity

As a business 2 business telecommunications service provider it is our job to look after our customers, thousands of telephone lines, phone calls, telephone systems, business mobiles and broadband access. Here at Best 4 Business Communications, we offer bespoke business continuity solutions to protect your enterprise against all possible eventualities. Whilst taking advantage of a business telephone system that has failover options, use this opportunity to get a telephone system with as many features as possible.

With bandwidth, if your VoIP system detects that there isn’t enough bandwidth to give you the best quality, it may reduce it so the call is still completed successfully. This can happen either before or during the call. At points, the call may even drop out if bandwidth gets too tight, or it may sound scrambled. Telephone systems are key to any business, not matter what industry.

Latency can best be described as delay. If there is network congestion, it may take longer for your VoIP data packets to reach their destination. This might result in an issue where the person you’re calling may sound like he or she is taking slightly longer to respond to you. In most cases, however, these problems are temporary and may resolve on their own. Other times, it might require you to reboot either your cable/DSL modem and/or router.

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Author: Eugene Alcide

Eugene Alcide

Member since: Sep 07, 2018
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