Best Failover Routers for 2022 | Novotech Technologies - 2 views
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An LTE failover router ensures that a network remains online and operational in the event of an internet outage. This is accomplished by including a secondary redundant internet connection that a network automatically switches to should the primary internet connection fail.
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A loss of internet connectivity, however brief, can have a substantial impact on a business's operations, resulting not only in lost revenue and productivity but potentially triggering a cascade of system failures.
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A dual-WAN, or multi-WAN router allows simultaneous internet connection to two or more internet service providers
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This article explains the hardware (i.e. failover routers, dual-WAN routers) that are the key to internet redundancy when large business can not afford to have an outage. As businesses rely more and more on cloud-based computing, it is becoming more and more costly to have an internet outage. While the article might sell a good story, I don't feel like things are quite as good as advertised when trying to apply this in a hotel setting where oftentimes franchisor IT requirements only allow one static IP address and these routers require multiple IP addresses. I've personally experienced failures in the "last mile" of infrastructure (i.e. construction cuts a line or gophers chew fiberoptic cable) that even if the hotel has a failover router with multiple ISPs, the hotel would have experienced a complete outage due to the fact that both carriers were physically sharing the last mile. Maybe wireless network failover routers have more of a chance to thwart gophers and construction equipment? Conduct proper research to make sure your franchisor could accommodate a failover router.