Category: Disaster Recovery
What would happen to your business if your toll-free service simply stopped working one day? Network outages, degradation in customer support and even having your service turned off com- pletely are all realities that must be confronted. Carrier diversity...
TOLL-FREE NUMBER & DISASTER RECOVERY HISTORY
BELL SYSTEM / NANP (1876 – 1940):From its beginnings in 1876 and all through the initial segment of the twentieth century, the Bell System developed from basically local or regional telephone frameworks. These frameworks exten by developing...
UNDERSTANDING THE TELEPHONE NUMBER
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA) implemented calling procedures that required all long-distance calls within an area code to be prefixed with the area code, in order to make it possible to...
WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF A CARRIER OUTAGE?
Don’t panic! You’ve prepared for this. It’s time to put your predetermined plan into action.A good disaster recovery plan is only as strong as its design. When that design is well thought outand methodically tested, mitigating disasters becomes...
HOW TO SET UP TOLL-FREE DISASTER RECOVERY
RECEIVE A UNIQUE RESPORG ID:In order to utilize multiple carriers, you must have an ID that isn’t tied to a carrier. This gives you the power to use any carrier you want, after obtaining the carrier’s permission, and in any combination you want....
TOLL-FREE DISASTER RECOVERY
Few companies have the deep pockets required to burn through $50,000 per hour. Yet, a USAToday survey of 200 data center managers found that over 80% of these managers reported thattheir phone system downtime costs exceeded $50,000 per hour. For over...
Don’t Wait For Disaster To Strike – Disaster Recovery & Routing Optimization
Don’t Wait For Disaster To Strike – Disaster Recovery & Routing OptimizationATL Communications Community, No matter how prepared or how good we are, the simple fact is, outages will happen. In Q4 of 2017, a major carrier...
Don’t Leave Your Telecommunications Disaster Recovery Plan to Chance
Don’t Leave Your Telecommunications Disaster Recovery Plan to ChanceRecently the FCC came under fire for poor response times in the aftermath of the major hurricanes that wreaked havoc across the United States. Thousands of people...
Disaster Recovery- How to prepare for Carrier Outages
Disaster Recovery- How to prepare for Carrier OutagesTime is money – and any businesses that face downtime lose a lot more than just money. Carrier outages are more common than you think – in October 2016, all major phone carriers on the east...