Imagine if your network went down, even for an hour, and you lost all communications with the marketplace. For too many businesses, it’s not a question of if but when – and how much that downtime will end up costing.

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The odds are that a crisis will disrupt your network ­– however briefly – or keep large numbers of employees from reaching your workplace in the next 12 months. What’s your strategy for handling that sort of interruption? Can your people carry on working if severe weather or a pandemic alert forces them to stay at home? Do you have the systems in place to protect your data from a widespread power failure?

Keep your organization operating under any circumstances with Allstream’s Business Continuity Solutions. Our network and data backup systems, along with our extensive offsite capabilities and Cloud Replication Services, ensure your workforce is connected and your vital data is safe even during a disaster or crisis.

Our mobility and collaboration tools allow people to work remotely – from home or on the road. And year round, our high-performance national network provides built-in redundancy and security features to minimize potential downtime.

Protect your revenue and your reputation with a business continuity and disaster recovery strategy tailored to your organization by Allstream’s experts.

Stay productive no matter what happens.

Allstream’s Business Continuity solutions have everything you need to keep people working efficiently during a crisis:

• real-time, dynamic rerouting of voice connections.
• instant messaging, collaboration and mobile capabilities that make it easy to work from home and remote locations.
• Cloud Replication Services that deliver near-instantaneous availability of applications and data in a crisis or network downtime.
• offsite hosting and network facilities that remain accessible even during power outages.
• robust network features that accelerate recovery times.

Protect your data when disaster strikes.

With Allstream’s unique security and backup features, your data and network are always protected. We ensure that your business communications are compliant with all industry guidelines and regulations regarding power blackouts and other disasters and for an added level of protection, we can store your important data or even physically house your servers at one of our state-of-the-art Internet Data Centres.

Minimize your losses and hang on to your customers.

• Protect your bottom line by keeping people connected and productive wherever they are.
• Ensure faster, more efficient recovery times, which means fewer lost work hours.
• Minimize the hassles for your IT team, who can focus on restoring full capacity across the enterprise.
• Eliminate the need for many hardware/software investments and remote disaster recovery facilities by deploying Cloud Replication Services.
• Maintain service continuity, ensuring customer loyalty – which means higher sales and revenues.
• Enhance your business reputation and credibility – assets that can be leveraged in marketing and publicity campaigns.

Increase your network ROI.

Allstream’s Business Continuity services enhance your existing communications investments and allow you to take advantage of powerful networking and storage capabilities without incurring substantial costs. Our unique security features – embedded at every connection point of our national IP network – protect your IT infrastructure from disruption, saving you costly repairs and maintenance fees.