Segra DRaaS Provides BC During Hurricane Season and Throughout Year

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Climate Prediction Center predicts “a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of a below-normal season.”

In response to this year’s heightened expectations, Segra has made critical preparations to secure the continuity of its fiber networks and customer support services and encourages all businesses to do the same.

The company’s DR and BC plan includes step-by-step processes to ensure continued operation of business critical systems in the event of a disaster.

Specific goals of the plan include:

Minimizing interruptions to normal operations
Limiting the extent of disruption and damage
Establishing alternative means of operation when needed
Training personnel with emergency procedures for safe, smooth, and rapid restoration of service.

The firm’s DR as a Service (DRaaS) solution commits to RTOs for critical applications giving businesses peace of mind. The company’s team of DR solution engineers partner with businesses to design, deploy, and test a highly-available DRaaS solution to ensure customers are always prepared. The firm offers a value proposition to customers by leveraging Zerto Ltd.‘s software, continuous replications of VMs and secure connectivity directly over the firm’s private fiber network, into tits owned available and compliant (SOC1, SOC2, HIPAA, PCI, DSS) data centers, within multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

To protect its fiber networks, minimize service interruptions, and continue delivering high-speed Internet and fiber-based communications services, the firm proactively prepares for natural disasters throughout the year.

The firm supports the BC and DR efforts of its customers by ensuring:

Customer service, field engineering, and network operation teams are ready to mobilize and respond safely and quickly after storms pass
Generators and refueling protocols are in place
Facilities and infrastructure are protected from water/flooding
Protocols are in place to prioritize hospitals, care facilities, and community hot spots
Field personnel have an adequate supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Network operations are familiar with emergency protocols and procedures
Inventory is readily available to technicians and mobile service units
Communication procedures are ready

About Segra
it is an independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern US It owns and operates a fiber infrastructure network of over 30,000 miles that connects more than 10,000 locations and nine data centers throughout nine Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states. It provides Ethernet, MPLS, dark fiber, data center services, IP and managed services, voice and cloud solutions, all backed by its service and reliability. Customers include carriers, enterprises, governments, and healthcare organizations.