Tariam Solaris Unveiled
October 15th, 2007Global satellite communications provider Tariam has launched a significant and unique new product aimed at providing communications resilience for businesses.
The Solaris product has been put together to address the nightmare businesses now face if their broadband connection fails. It’s thought that several thousand businesses were seriously affected by the flash floods that hit many parts of the UK in July 2007.
Tariam’s Communications Manager Julie Fox says “Tariam has dozens of enquiries for failover connections every month, but some businesses are put off by the running costs of most satellite connections which are typically over £150 per month, even if they’re not used.”
“These days even sole traders are totally dependent on broadband communications for things like banking and email. Tariam has put together a robust but tiny satellite based solution that can offer up to one megabit of broadband connectivity (synchronous) as well as two voice lines that can take over automatically and can be installed easily by the customer. This cuts the upfront costs substantially. Running costs if the equipment isn’t used are also a more manageable £22 a month”.
Up until now although many businesses see the benefit of satellite communications as a back-up to less reliable services like ADSL, they have been put off by the ongoing costs.
The Government continues to urge all businesses to look at ways to make their communications more resilient and to take steps to enable them to communicate in the event of extreme weather or unpredictable outage. Sir Ian Blair (Head of Metropolitan Police) warned MPs on Tuesday that the number of terrorist plots in the UK is “mounting” and the “magnitude” of their ambitions growing.
http://www.ukresilience.info/preparedness/resilient_telecommunications.aspx
Most companies don’t realise that if they buy a second DSL connection to back-up their primary connection, it’s likely the two will still run over the same core BT infrastructure and up the street to their premises along the same wires and ducting. This offers little resilience in the case of an outage.
One of Solaris’s key benefits is that it will continue to provide a connection even if the fixed telecommunications infrastructure or cellular network fails. It will even maintain connectivity for some hours if the power goes off.
Tariam is offering Solaris now across all of Europe, North and South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa and it will be available worldwide by the middle of 2008.
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