Business Continuity

Business Continuity & Failover —
Stay Online When Your Primary Circuit Fails

A single internet circuit is a single point of failure. Fibi designs and sources automatic failover solutions — dual-carrier circuits, 4G/5G backup, and SD-WAN-based continuity — that keep your business running when your primary ISP has an outage.

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< 30s
Typical failover time
300+
Carrier partners
99.99%
Target uptime achievable
$0
Advisory fee

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

Direct to Carrier
With Fibi
Internet outage impact
Full business disruption
Automatic failover < 30s
Failover path
None
Diverse carrier + medium
POS / VoIP during outage
Down
Continues on backup
Remote workers
Disconnected
Uninterrupted via backup
Cloud app access
Lost
Rerouted automatically
Monitoring & alerting
None
Real-time with notifications
Advisory fee
N/A
$0

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.

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