Are you betting your business on a single internet connection?
Are you betting your business on a single internet connection?
Did you know that most internet connections are best effort with no warranty or recourse when it slows to a crawl or goes dark!
Let’s face it without reliable internet your business is dead in the water.
In South Florida most small business use either Broadband or DSL Internet. They are best effort connections and subject to the following issues.
- Network over subscription. If you can set your watch by the times of day your internet connection slows down, your internet provide has sold more customers internet then they can provide at peak usage times. Yes, this is legal as it’s covered in your user agreement.
- Weather interference, if you get your internet over copper wires you will have interference every time it rains a lot. This issue is hard to track down as by the time the service provider can dispatch a tech the lines have most likely dried out.
South Florida VoIP has a few creative solutions to prevent these issues. The best option is to buy a Metro Ethernet Fiber optic connection which comes with guaranteed committed information rates RE: speed and throughput while they tend cost a lot more then best effort broadband connection. When you run the numbers on lost productivity and lower employee moral in most cases it actually cost you less to speed more to get the best internet connection. Metro E cost in South Florida start at around $400.00 for a 10MB always on guaranteed connection. 100MB connections are currently running from $600.00-$800.00. You should note that Metro Ethernet is much better then broadband and businesses who have 75-150 MB broadband connection normally run better on a 10MB fiber connect due to the stability of the connection.
Your other more affordable option would be to buy two broadband connections from two different network providers. This solution is normally more affordable. Note a number of providers sell SD-WAN, which stands for software defined network with a cellular backup for fail-over. This solution is really not worth the money you’ll spend on it.
The best option for business in areas that have two best effort providers is to go with 2 $100.00 internet connections and get a dual wan switch (150.00-$250.00) programmed for automatic fail over. South Florida VoIP can assist you with this give us a call at 954-786-8647 or 954-394-0998 we’ll come out and review your issues and options at no charge to you…
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