In the event of an unexpected outage, network redundancy can prevent employees from realizing anything was ever “out” in the first place. To have redundancy in networking is to have an alternate network path available, ready to carry traffic when the primary network experiences a failure. When deployed correctly, switching from a primary to secondary connection is seamless.
Incorporating redundant network architecture into the design process means a business has another way to access critical data and applications in the event of an outage.
What are the advantages of building redundancy into a network?
- Increased Uptime: Gartner estimates a single outage can cost organizations up to $5,600 per minute. With that financial impact at play, network redundancy becomes an imperative must-have. Implementing it reduces substantial periods of downtime and, in effect, mitigates the chance of incurring the cost of downtime.
- Added Safeguards: Ultimately, how much risk a business is willing to take will impact if its network requires only redundancy or redundancy with an added level of security — specifically network diversity. For example, a customer can have redundant access by using two fiber strands from two different providers. But if those fiber strands share the same conduit, a single incident could take out both connections.
- Improved Performance: Redundant service helps to protect a business from network congestion, high latency and other poor performance issues. The addition of a second connection allows a business’s traffic to route appropriately to the backup until any issues with the primary service are resolved.
Network redundancy is a crucial component of a network solution — providing businesses with an additional layer of protection and access to their high-bandwidth, low-latency connection. To find out more about how this can help your company, reach out and schedule a consultation.