Sprint Wireless Failover
2/6/2009 by www.mountainviewcellphones.com
If your business T-1 line, DSL, or cable goes down, does your business go down with it?
With Sprint & Cradlepoint, the answer is no. Sprint’s most dependable 3G network ratings used with a Cradlepoint EVDO/WiFi/Ethernet router provides an easy solution for failover and additional bandwidth.
The Cradlepoint router can have up to 3 Sprint wireless broadband cards. It does load sharing among the cards to maintain as quick a connection as possible when used. It can be put behind your main router and the main router can be set for failover to use the broadband aircard solutions or this can be your main router for the business with aircard redundancy built in.
The additional uptime security comes from the fact that it is a wireless connection that is used. If you have a good signal, then this avoids the problem of a physical network problem with a line. If something physically happens to the copper or coax cable or T-1 line, having two or more carriers riding on that same physical line doesn’t provide the safety a business requires (as all the services will be cut with physical line). Having a wireless back up in this way ensures you have greatly reduced physical geographic risk for your network.
The solution is also scalable, so you can just add 1 to 3 aircards to increase the available bandwidth to the office.
In terms of pricing, in many instances, we can get pricing for aircards for $49.99/month for our business customers. Feel free to contact us if you are interested in discussing more details of how to protect your business from interuption.
