Keeping Your Branch Locations Up And Running

How to maintain critical business continuity for online transactions

By Brian Anderson, Sierra Wireless

No matter what department or functional area within a business, ask any manager and they will agree that any form of downtime ultimately has a negative impact on a company’s bottom line. This, in fact, becomes an even more important issue for retailers, where the ability to process sales is often dependent on a connected point-of-sale system.

In today’s competitive environment, it’s imperative to ensure network connections at distributed enterprises have adequate backup across all locations. Whether it be a retail location, restaurant, kiosk, distribution center or branch office, the order of the day is to maintain continuous connectivity to headquarters, network operations centers and secure payment processors. What’s more, a well-designed solution can do more than assure faultless connectivity - it can also deliver the added value of enabling quick, remote fixes when network troubles occur.

Instant Failover to Ensure Continuity

The ramifications of losing a network connection are severe, so distributed enterprises like retailers are looking for simple and affordable ways to back up network connectivity that will prevent any service interruption. This is where the expanding availability of 4G LTE service offers an ideal opportunity for a quick and efficient failover solution when a wire line connection goes down.  Currently, peak LTE download speeds of 100 Mbps and upload speeds of 60 Mbps are achievable in a failover situation, allowing enterprises to keep their branch locations up and running smoothly.

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