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End II End Communications (EIIE) has announced the availability of the first in a series of industry briefs focusing on topical and key issues related to satellite-based business continuity. The three-page report, ‘Creating the Fully-Functional Office: Satellite-Based Business Continuity’, highlights the need for a ‘failover feature’ in the event of a terrestrial network disruption, and analyzes the two primary types of redundancy. It concludes that ‘true redundancy’ consists of a broadband connection with no common network path to the Internet and demonstrates the configuration in a diagram.
The briefing paper outlines the configuration of what End II End calls, ‘The Fully-Functional Office.’ This concept, which has been implemented using satellite for End II End customers, is one that provides uninterrupted network service and access to telephony, the Internet and business applications, including Citrix and SAP, throughout a widely-distributed enterprise. It allows the customer-facing asset, as the remote or sales office is termed, to continue to run fully after a failover.
According to many experts, satellite has always been disadvantaged when required to run common business applications. End II End points out that the use of its optimization software running between a data center and remote sites maximizes bandwidth and overcomes the traditional problems associated with a satellite solution.
"The use of optimization technology to enable business applications to run securely and cost-effectively with LAN-like performance over satellite is the core of the fully-functional office concept," said End II End's CEO, John X. Dwyer. "The challenge historically is that traditional satellite-based business continuity solutions only offer telephony and Internet connectivity. They have not included a capability to offer a true 'VPN in the Sky.' Our assessment is that it is possible to run business applications, such as Citrix, in a high latency environment, without degrading security and performance. We encourage the industry's views on this and offer this brief for discussion."
‘Creating the Fully-Functional Office: Satellite-Based Business Continuity’ is available by contacting End II End at info@eiiecomm.com. The brief is also available for download free of charge to members of World Teleport Association in the Knowledgebase at www.worldteleport.org
•Date: 30th August 2006• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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