Defining Redundancy for your Internet Connectivity Strategy

If the nature of the business of the company heavily relies on the Internet to perform its key business activities, then having a single method of accessing or connecting to the Internet could be an issue that needs to be resolved when you design your Internet connectivity strategy. Here, it should be compulsory to have at least two methods of connecting to the Internet.

Before implementing redundancy for your Internet connectivity design, you should first determine whether redundancy is actually required, and if yes, the next step would be to determine the level of redundancy required.

The issues which you need to clarify on redundancy for your Internet connectivity solution are summarized here:

  • Determine whether redundancy is required. The nature of the business of the company would determine whether redundancy is needed or not.
  • Determine the time duration for which the company can operate without Internet connections being available.
  • Determine the cost factor associated with a loss of Internet connectivity.
  • Determine which internal services are dependent on the availability of Internet connectivity. A loss of Internet connectivity would mean that remote users would not be able to access internal resources over a VPN connection. You should attempt to determine the cost associated with mobile users and remote users not being able to access the company network.
  • Determine whether the company can lose customers because of a loss of Internet connectivity.

Determine whether there are any existing Internet connections that do provide some level of redundancy.

Article: Rin Sarath