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Recovering Your Network

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Changing Network Technology

Convergence to one internet

protocol (IP) network makes anyinterruption critical:

Voice affected

Data affected

Video affected

Integrated Applications affected

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Mitigate Your Risk

Power

Change

Redundancy

Security

Recovering Your Network Local Area Network

Wide Area Network

Network Services

Voice

Considerations

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Mitigate Your Risk - Power

Single largest cause of network

failure Solutions:

Uninterruptible Power Supply

(UPS)Generator

Dual Power Feeds

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Mitigate Your Risk - Change

Changes in the environment and/or

network can impact availability Solutions:

Test

RedundancyDocument

Plan

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Mitigate Your Risk - Redundancy

Can also be defined as resiliency

Solutions:

LAN

Switches, Routers, Power Supplies,Circuit Cards

WAN

Circuits, Carriers, Cell, Microwave,Satellite

VoiceSwitches, Circuits (IP, Analog,

Digital, Aggregators)

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Mitigate Your Risk - Security

Unauthorized Intruders prey on

weak networks Solutions:

Firewall

Intrusion DetectionVirus Protection

Multiple Levels of Access Control

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Recovering Your Network

Four elements for consideration:

Local Area Network (LAN)

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Network Services

Voice

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Local Area Network (LAN)

Alternate Site

Mobile Hot Site

Switches and Cabling (10/100/1000)

Warm Site

Mobile

Cold Site

Alternative Modes of Operation

Wireless Telecommunication

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Wide Area Network (WAN)

Alternate Site

Hot (or Warm) SiteMPLS, Frame Relay, VPN

Plan

Cold SiteEVDO (cell phone data network)

WiFi / Wi-Max

Satellite

MicrowaveLonger lead time offerings:

DSL

Dedicated Circuit

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Network Services

Network services are defined as:

Email Core Processing

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Remote Services

Recovery through Internet access

VPN access

Citrix

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Voice

Key for communication with

employees, clients and stakeholders Methodologies:

Voice Redirection

Alternate Site Voice Mail

DIDs, Aggregators

Cell Phone and Push-To-Talk

Letter of Agency

Notification

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Questions?