Telecom Diversity Risk Assessment

Will your infrastructure remain resilient during the next submarine cable cut, or will it degrade or fail? While the answer may seem simple, just separate your services, achieving true telecom diversity is far more complex.

Key challenges

• When you order a circuit, you may not know the actual provider or the physical and logical paths your traffic follows.
• Without this visibility, building and validating your own diversity strategy becomes difficult.
• Telecom providers often keep their contingency and backup arrangements confidential, and those arrangements may conflict with your resilience plans when activated.
• Testing real-world failure conditions is challenging.
• It is often difficult to determine how internet backup, SD-WAN, or mesh connectivity truly complements leased circuits.
• Even when provider BGP converges correctly, the result may still reduce the performance of your overlay network.

Our approach

• Document your infrastructure agreements, including services, locations, and providers.
• Identify the owners of the underlying infrastructure.
• Assess the effectiveness of your existing diversity strategy.
• Remediate single points of failure by sourcing services from providers that improve overall path and infrastructure diversity.

To remediate risks, circuits have to be replaced and we can help you source these or relocate them. Link to telecom sourcing page