Is there any half-decent Wireless 3G or LTE coverage in the area. They can work fine for failover purposes.
Choosing a second ISP on a different backbone provider is a good idea, but can be very difficult in rural areas. However, since most outages are either caused in the last-mile, or by problems at the ISP, choosing two different ISPs, even on the same backbone, is still a good idea. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:31 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Pluggers, > > Just wondering if any of you have worked with multi-homed setups before. > At present we are looking to connect directly to the primary > Ecuadorian backbone via CNT (the company that owns this stretch of > fiber). > I've been looking at options in case CNT suffers a failure and the > only one I can think of is satellite, since all the other ISPs peer > off this same backbone. > > The problem is that a dedicated business grade 1MB/s satellite > connection starts at $1,000 per mo and goes up from there (we are > trying to get better pricing on 10 & 100MBs but it looks like it > scales linearly). > Since this is only intended as a fallback, it seems like a bit of an > extravagance for something that is likely to be used no more than 10 > or 12 days a year. > > It seems like there ought to be a provider somewhere that specializes > in being the fallback option with a low monthly fee and then perhaps a > high per diem or per MB fee when you actually need to use the service. > Does anyone know of any companies that specialize in that sort of thing? > > Thanks! > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
