Hughes Utility Solutions – Access Continuity

HughesNet® Access Continuity—a diverse-path backup solution that ensures your critical utility applications remain online during network outages for near 100% network uptime.

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Satellite and wireless—the only true diverse paths

An effective backup solution for your substations or other assets should not share any of the same underlying infrastructure as the primary network. A satellite broadband or terrestrial wireless network is the only solution that totally bypasses your primary network and protects your critical utility operations from costly network outages.

Whether from a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, a central office failure, or routine outages, losing your substation’s broadband connection can spell disaster for critical asset management. Keeping critical cyber assets and systems up and running is imperative. That’s why it’s crucial to have a backup solution for your primary landline communications network.

HughesNet Access Continuity

HughesNet Access Continuity is an affordable, totally diverse-path managed solution that ensures reliable, secure broadband access for any of your locations. Keeping your critical cyber assets connected in the event of a network outage is what the service is all about. Like an insurance policy, HughesNet Access Continuity is there when you need it most.

Highlights

  • Cost-effective satellite or 3G broadband backup for true path diversity
  • Seamless integration with your existing primary network
  • Flexible design options for optimal network backup
  • Helps you achieve 99.99% network availability or better
  • Fully managed service from a single provider
  • Integrated network management portal

The managed service advantage

HughesNet Access Continuity deliverscomprehensive network and service management for your integrated wireless and landline broadband network. Experience the benefits of the HughesNet fully managed service:

  • Turnkey deployment, including network design, configuration, installation, maintenance, and customer Help Desk
  • Proactive fault management of your customer premises equipment and network
  • Performance management of your network and applications
  • Comprehensive, enterprise-grade service level agreements (SLAs)
  • Superior customer care and nationwide onsite field service
  • Experienced program management

Seamless Integration

HughesNet Access Continuity seamlessly integrates with your current network through:

  • Standards-based IP network technology
  • Professional services to custom design the right solution for you

True path diversity

HughesNet Access Continuity offers true path diversity via wireless satellite or 3G for maximum availability, avoiding common points of network failure, such as remote site router and central office outages. Access Continuity solutions have been designed to assist enterprises in reaching 99.99% network availability or better.

Flexible options to meet your business needs

Hughes conducts a comprehensive needs analysis to design a cost-effective solution tailored to your specific operational needs.

  • Flexible network configuration options—you decide which applications to back up
  • A range of service plan options for both terrestrial wireless and satellite
  • Scalable solutions designed to grow with your network requirements

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Highest security standards

With HughesNet Access Continuity, you can be confident of a fully secure, end-to-end network to safeguard your data and systems.

  • Standards-based AES encryption
  • Non-internet-based, private network architectures that help you meet NERC-CIP-compliance

Additional ROI benefits

The HughesNet Access Continuity service can provide additional benefits—dramatically improving your ROI:

  • Improve application performance through load balancing between the landline and wireless connections.
  • Save landline upgrade costs by utilizing the satellite or 3G connection.

The HughesNet Managed Services suite

Hughes offers an extensive portfolio of managed service options to meet a variety of business needs, including:

  • High-Availability VPN—delivers unsurpassed network availablility for your branch locations—up to 99.99+%.
  • Optimized VPN—leverages landline and wireless technologies to deliver secure and reliable broadband connectivity to all your locations.
  • Business IPTV—delivers high-impact corporate communications to all your locations using high-quality video.
  • Emergency Services—ensures that your locations stay online in the event of a disaster—ready for immediate deployment.

Experience that is second to none

Nothing beats experience when it comes to meeting complex communications challenges. For over 30 years, Hughes has led the market in satellite technology, innovation, and service. Now, with integrated wireless and landline platforms and single-source management, Hughes takes networking to the highest level and empowers utilities to achieve seamless connectivity, extend their reach, and dramatically improve reliability of critical assets. Your operations need a totally diverse backup strategy in the event disaster strikes. How do you keep your critical assets online when your landline is not? HughesNet Access continuity, that’s how.