Financial Services

Windstream lets you back your business continuity and disaster recovery plans with highly reliable products and services provisioned on a diverse, privately managed network.

Of course, any effective business continuity plan starts with diversity. And Windstream delivers, offering you carrier diversity, switch and central office diversity, facilities diversity, media diversity, and protocol diversity featuring both TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) and IP (Internet Protocol).

For additional protection, Windstream's Data Backup and Recovery lets you back up your critical and sensitive data securely and easily, offering you:

• Data encryption and transmission through Windstream's highly secure network
• Simultaneous storage in two geographically diverse SAS Type-II certified Windstream data centers
• Simplified data retrieval and restoration through an intuitive point-and-click interface

Colocation Services from Windstream allow you to house your critical equipment and applications in the same controlled Central Office facility as Windstream's own network equipment. Your firm gets:

• An optimal, highly secure, climate-controlled environment for your servers and other equipment
• Unlimited escorted admittance to your equipment during normal business hours
• Efficient cost management through full-service agreements that include electricity, security, and environmental charges

Windstream's Fixed Wireless solution offers you an alternative "last mile" or metro-area network solution that gives you the ability to:

• Protect your communications system from serious network outages
• Complement or even replace your existing physical network infrastructure
• Maximize your network speed by sharing your communications load across multiple transport paths
• Transport data, voice, or combined voice/data traffic at bandwidths from 20Mbps to 1Gbps

Should one of your firm's locations become unavailable, inbound calls can be automatically rerouted using DTO (Direct Trunk Overflow.) With Windstream's DTO:

• There's no need for manual intervention
• The system detects common conditions associated with an outage and automatically sends calls to predetermined destinations
• Calls can be rerouted to any working number, even a cell phone

As a complement to your disaster recovery plan, Windstream's Network Diversity Engineering will dramatically reduce the chance of your organization experiencing a complete service outage. Available in select markets, it also:

• Provides geographical diversity by provisioning data and voice services through of a number of separate, widely dispersed switches and routers
• Eliminates a point of failure if a catastrophic event were to impact one of Windstream's highly secure switching facilities