Q:
One or multiple service providers for the WAN?
Do you use one or more service providers to provide connectivity to your WAN? Is it worth the extra cost to have redundancy from multiple partners, or is this just throwing money down the drain?
ASKED:
Oct 28 2009 6:54 PM GMT
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A:
RATE THIS ANSWER
0
Click to Vote:
0
Click to Vote:
- 0
0
I would say that if having the WAN go down would impact business then having multiple providers is worth it. Especially if you can leverage them both at the same time. If having the WAN go down for an hour isn't a big deal to the business then it is probably a waste of money.
Well we have different providers and that too we are using two different techonlogies for establing the WAN connectivity. We are using Frame Relay from one our Service provider and from other we are usingWi-max and VSAT. Since we are into health care business we need this kind of connectivity,
=================================
I have found that the "last mile" is the most trouble-prone part of the WAN. I have rarely had outages within the provider's "cloud". So, if you can get some type of redundancy in the local links, then you will address a major failure point and provide high availability to your WAN services.
In the IT trenches? So am I - read my IT-Trenches blog
