Business Continuity
Business Continuity & Failover —
Stay Online When Your Primary Circuit Fails
4G/5G LTE failover and diverse path redundancy with automatic switchover.
No cost · No obligation · Results in 24 hours
What Is It
Why a single internet circuit is a business risk — and how failover fixes it
Every business internet connection — even a high-quality fiber circuit — can fail. Fiber cuts, carrier equipment failures, and planned maintenance outages are all beyond your control. When your only circuit goes down, so does everything that depends on it: cloud applications, VoIP phones, POS systems, remote workers, and customer-facing services.
Business continuity for network infrastructure means having a second (and sometimes third) independent path to the internet or your private WAN — from a different carrier, over a different physical medium, entering your building from a different direction. When the primary fails, the backup activates automatically, typically within seconds, without manual intervention.
Fibi evaluates your current infrastructure, identifies single points of failure, and designs a failover architecture that matches your risk tolerance and budget. For some businesses that means a low-cost 4G LTE failover device. For others, it means active-active dual-fiber from two separate carriers with SD-WAN load balancing. We source all the components and coordinate installation.
Why It Matters
Key benefits for your business
Automatic Failover < 30 Seconds
SD-WAN and failover routers detect circuit failures and reroute traffic automatically — typically in under 30 seconds. No manual intervention, no calls to IT, no waiting on hold with your ISP.
Diverse Physical Paths
True redundancy requires circuits from different carriers entering your building from different physical directions. We design path diversity into every continuity solution to eliminate single underground-cut failures.
4G/5G Cellular Backup
A cellular failover device provides instant backup connectivity that's immune to the physical infrastructure failures that take down fiber and cable. No fiber cut affects a cellular circuit.
Active-Active Load Balancing
Advanced SD-WAN configurations use both circuits simultaneously — distributing traffic across both for maximum performance under normal conditions, with full capacity available on either circuit during a failure.
SLA-Backed Primary + Backup
We source both primary and failover circuits with contractual SLAs. Your recovery time is documented and guaranteed — not dependent on a best-effort backup that may also be degraded.
Outage Alerting & Monitoring
Network monitoring that detects circuit failures in real time and notifies your team — so you know the backup is running and the primary needs attention before users even notice.
The Fibi Advantage
Single circuit vs. basic failover vs. fully redundant design
Who Needs This
Built for businesses like yours
Retail & Restaurant POS
A down POS terminal means lost sales and frustrated customers. A cellular failover activates in seconds and keeps payment processing running regardless of what the primary ISP is doing.
Healthcare Continuity
EHR systems, telehealth platforms, and medical device connectivity cannot tolerate unplanned outages. We design N+1 continuity architectures specifically for clinical environments where downtime has patient safety implications.
Remote & Hybrid Work
When headquarters loses connectivity, remote workers can lose access to internal resources. SD-WAN-based failover ensures VPN tunnels reroute automatically and remote teams stay connected.
Financial Services
Banks and fintech companies face regulatory scrutiny for connectivity downtime. We design dual-carrier architectures with documented failover procedures that satisfy business continuity plan requirements.
Multi-Site Businesses
Each branch location represents a potential outage point. We design per-site failover that integrates with your SD-WAN or MPLS fabric, so a circuit failure at one branch doesn't affect the rest of the network.
Cloud-Dependent Operations
Businesses that have moved core operations to cloud platforms (Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace) depend entirely on internet connectivity. Losing it means losing everything. Failover is non-optional.
FAQ
Common questions
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