It happens. Hardware, software, weather, earth stations – no matter how thorough we plan, single points of failure are often unavoidable. An outage of a satellite may not only affect tractors at farms, but also maritime safety communications, aircraft tracking services and everything in between for even the most critical operations.
And even in cases where both space and earth are in optimal conditions, something as basic as a licensing issue, such as an expired ground station certificate, could cause a global outage. For example, the expiration of the cybersecurity certificate in a satellite gateway could mean that devices can no longer recognize and trust each other, bringing communications to a halt.
When downtime is not an option
And with innovation putting so many new solutions on the table – companies are repeatedly trying to pick what they believe, but are not certain, will be the winners. Implementing the wrong connectivity solution could jeopardize remote operations right when it’s time to accelerate. The path forward must be navigated carefully to avoid business risk.
The “single point of failure” could be a remote operation’s biggest risk. Complex systems are carefully designed to avoid them, but such vulnerabilities can creep by unnoticed in the deployment of a network service, and only reveal their presence when a failure occurs.
It happens – but for critical services, it shouldn’t. The solution to avoiding this risk is to deploy diverse, hybrid communications services.
Organizations whose success depends on remote operations running at peak performance require a full range of communications and IT capabilities, bringing together the best high-speed connectivity paths with a suite of networking and application innovations delivered through a superior customer experience everywhere you operate.
At Speedcast, we provide networks connecting hard-to-reach places, from ships and energy platforms, to mines, military bases and humanitarian camps around the world. Successful operations and even lives depend on uptime, so we combine multiple satellite paths with fiber networks, diverse teleport gateways and 4G LTE facilities. New solutions like Starlink and OneWeb are part of the mix, as are long-time connectivity path options like MSS and GEO-based services.
Complete Control
Managing multiple networks can be complicated. While your operations gain reliability, efficiency, and security from network stability and redundancy, it takes an enterprise-grade solution to ensure you have the control and visibility needed to make everything work together. Speedcast’s software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solutions can steer traffic securely and intelligently across multiple connectivity paths, and instantly forward application traffic based on network conditions and enterprise needs. This way, you can always count on your internet connectivity, and you won’t have to worry about how to operate farm machinery while your IoT sensors or GPS equipment are down or scrambling to shoot a flare to call for help without critical comms.
Speedcast enables organizations to harness innovative technologies and applications to transform what remote operations can achieve, providing smarter ways to communicate and distribute content, manage network and remote operations, protect and secure investments, and improve the crew and guest experience to meet ever-greater network expectations with zero tradeoffs. Contact us today to see how you can take advantage of a fault-tolerant system and achieve 100% uptime.