Internet outages occur often and with a variety of reasons and time lasted; most importantly, they are always impossible to control and hard to manage time wise. Among the leading causes are electrical outages, inclement weather, construction misfortunes and heavy network usage. The saving grace is that every business is an equal opportunity receiver of these disrupted outages.
Although very damaging, the bulk of the outages are less than 24 hours long while fewer than 5% are over the 72 hour long nightmare. The matter of the fact is that almost half of the companies can cover critical data needs for about an hour of internet outage. Time and money are lost across the board form the POS cash registers, to on-line ordering, to managing inventory and loyalty programs as well as payroll and labor management.
Consider how many customers will wait their turn to order on a POS more than 5 minutes? To understand the magnitude, multiply your average POS ringing per minute times the total minutes of an Internet Outage; an overwhelming amount of money lost. A T1 line by many experts is the most intelligent solution at almost 99.9% reliability.
When considering Installation and Cost the same line will require more time to install and higher total cost to install and run. Note that the upload and download speed might be lower to the rest of the competitors.
Consumers are advised to compare and choose the system that will satisfy their particular needs; carefully shifting between failover programs, reliability, initial time of installation as well as cost, speed and monthly fees.
Until next time,
Yours truly,
Thomas Antonopoulos, Blogger for OfficeTime
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