Network resilience

The keys to achieving network resilience

Your IT network is critical to every part of your business. From supporting a hybrid workforce to accessing cloud services, superior network connectivity keeps your people productive and your operations running smoothly. Yet, as cyberthreats proliferate and technology becomes more complex, achieving network resilience today is harder than ever.

Technology failure, human error, cyberattacks and natural disasters can all jeopardize connectivity and put business data at risk. To keep your network up and running smoothly, your IT teams need advanced solutions for network diversity, redundancy and continuity. The ability to rapidly restore operations after an outage is crucial. And accurately configuring and updating network equipment is essential to ensuring that everything works together seamlessly.

Spectrum Business for enterprise can help. We offer comprehensive solutions for network connectivity that deliver superior performance while streamlining network management. With Spectrum Business for enterprise, you can achieve network resilience with technology that enables seamless internet connectivity to ensure exceptional business performance.

The challenges of network resilience

While network resilience is a goal of every business, many IT teams must overcome several significant challenges to achieve it.

• Lack of network diversity. When your network relies on one type of connectivity, you’re out of luck when that connection falters. Redundancy in your network means having multiple types of internet connections available, allowing you to automatically route traffic across a different path when one machine or system goes suddenly offline or becomes unavailable.
• Lack of capacity. The fast pace of change and growth can strain networks and adversely impact user connection speeds. When you don’t have a scalable network or high-performing, low-latency connectivity, achieving network resilience becomes nearly impossible.
• Management complexity. As your network ages, managing configuration and updates of routers, switches, wireless access points and security devices becomes increasingly critical. The complexity of your IT system can strain performance and make it hard to add locations or new capabilities to address operational needs.
• Poor planning. Mitigating risk and ensuring resilience begins with putting the right plan in place. The key to surviving an internet disruption and limiting its impact is to prepare for it. Yet, many IT teams lack a coordinated, comprehensive plan to ensure continuous internet availability in the event of an outage to a primary circuit.

Network resilience with Spectrum Business for enterprise

At Spectrum Business for enterprise, building resilient networks is our wheelhouse. Our technology solutions are designed to be ultra-reliable, keeping your data safe and your business connected through every unexpected turn and event.

Dedicated Fiber Internet

Network resilience begins with superior connectivity options, and Spectrum Business for enterprise Dedicated Fiber Internet delivers in spades. Offering a dedicated connection with speeds up to 100 Gbps, Dedicated Fiber Internet is backed by an industry-leading SLA that ensures 100% service availability all the way to the equipment at your location. ¹ Multiple physical diversity and redundancy options help to ensure network resilience, and we provide 24/7/365 support through a single, nationwide contact point with a U.S.-based support team and local technicians.

Wireless Internet Backup

In the event of a power outage or network disruption, Spectrum Business for enterprise Wireless Internet Backup automatically activates to provide seamless connectivity over an encrypted 4G wireless signal. This fully managed solution includes everything your IT teams need to improve redundancy and achieve network resilience – including wireless hardware, battery backup, managed services and 24/7/365 support. With unlimited data and no overage fees, Wireless Internet Backup lets you stay connected as long as you need to without impact to your budget.

Managed Network Edge

As an all-in-one solution for streamlining IT, Spectrum Business for enterprise Managed Network Edge combines hardware, connectivity and network management to simplify network resilience. This secure, modular, turnkey solution is tailored to your needs, providing services such as security, routing, WiFi, SD-WAN, remote access services and more. Your IT teams can choose the level of involvement they prefer, selecting the connectivity options, service level agreements and managed services that best meet your organization’s needs.

Managed SD-WAN

This fully managed solution helps you create a wide-area network for your unique business and application needs. Streamline SD-WAN implementation and maximize performance by simply, efficiently and cost-effectively applying the right type of connectivity to each location across your network.

Manage cloud security

Our managed cloud security solutions provide trusted technology and expert support to help protect your devices, users and locations from a wide range of risks.

Benefits for your network and IT teams

For decades, we have partnered with America’s largest businesses to provide high-performing network solutions that meet our clients’ needs. From smart factory and smart manufacturing solutions to enterprise network integration and business network modernization projects, our teams of experts bring deep experience and a wealth of technologies to every new client engagement.

Our success is built on a modern fiber network, a complete portfolio of solutions and a relentless commitment to providing the best client experiences and extraordinary value. It’s no wonder that more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies rely on us for technology solutions. ³

When you partner with Spectrum Business for enterprise, you will have access to:

• A wholly-owned, dedicated fiber network that spans 245,000+ fiber-route miles and connects 317,000+ fiber-lit buildings.
• Internet speeds up to 100 Gbps.
• 100% U.S.-based support available 24/7/365.
• Service level agreements (SLAs) that deliver 100% uptime guarantees. ⁴
• A mean time to restore service of 4 hours. 

Why choose Spectrum Business for enterprise?

With superior enterprise technology and extensive expertise, Spectrum Business for enterprise is a partner to America’s leading businesses and communication service providers. We improve your organization’s performance by making your needs and successes our priority. Our modern fiber network and complete technology portfolio allow us to design and deliver solutions that solve business challenges, and our commitment to providing the best experience delivers extraordinary value for our clients. It’s no wonder that 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on Spectrum Business for enterprise for technology solutions.

FAQs

What does network resilience mean?

Network resilience refers to an IT infrastructure that is resistant to disruption, can quickly scale to meet unexpected needs and can recover quickly from outages caused by disasters, human error, cyberattacks, or equipment failure.

What’s the best way to achieve network resilience?

A resilient network starts with redundancy, including enabling data to travel over multiple paths and automatically failing over to an alternate system when a primary circuit fails. Ensuring that a network has the capacity to meet spikes or rapid changes is critical. IT teams must also ensure that equipment is correctly configured and constantly updated.

^1,2,4100% uptime SLA guarantee applies only to Dedicated Fiber Internet, Secure Dedicated Fiber Internet, Ethernet Services, Cloud Connect and Enterprise Trunking.

³Based on Fortune 500 companies with at least one service from Spectrum Business for enterprise in service area.