Disaster Recovery

Circuit Redundancy - Having more than one circuit provisioned for the purpose of either traffic overflow or stand-by, with one having the ability to failover to the other if it should go down. This design has circuits running over the same path and is susceptible to facility outages and cuts anywhere in the path.

Circuit Diversity - Having more than one circuit provisioned over different paths. This design separates the paths of the circuits (to a point). While better than circuit redundancy, this solution is still susceptible to network outages that the carrier experiences at either its edge or core, depending on the level of diversity.

The X5 Solution - Carrier diversity. Unlike our competition, X5 can provision circuits from multiple carriers to provide true network diversity for a customer. If one path, facility, or entire network experiences a failure there is a completely separate network available for the failover. This can all be designed, provisioned and billed as one solution from X5.

While there are a number of ways to mitigate the damages of a network outage, nothing beats the advantage X5 can provide. Most carriers are capable of providing circuit redundancy and a form of circuit diversity, but X5 can provide circuits from completely different networks should a customer need.