Some Small Businesses Resort to Backup Broadband: CCG Consulting
Small businesses find broadband outages can cripple their operations, yet many lack the choice of a more reliable primary ISP, CCG Consulting President Doug Dawson said in a Wednesday blog post. “The most realistic option” is a second or even…
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third connection, though that's expensive, Dawson said. As many as 10% of the small businesses he talks to “have gone to a two-ISP solution for redundancy,” he said: “A company may only get the amount of bandwidth they need from the local cable company, but DSL, fixed wireless, or satellite as a backup is better than going totally dead.”