New service updates business connectivity for the cloud era, using fixed wireless access and offering end-to-end SLAs.

April 20, 2017

2 Min Read

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Windstream, a provider of advanced network communications, today announced the availability of a one-of-a-kind business continuity solution, Diverse Connect, that enables reliable connectivity for growth-oriented enterprises that are reliant on the cloud to power mission-critical applications. Windstream’s Diverse Connect keeps a customer’s network endpoints connected, and ensures the performance of mission-critical business functions even in the event of a serious network issue. Diverse Connect comes with a 99.999% uptime SLA that protects services from end-to-end, including the last mile of service from Windstream’s provider service point to a business’ internal network.

The recent migration of applications and real-time communications to the cloud has enterprises of all sizes—ranging from the Financial and Healthcare industries to Consulting and Education—viewing highly available network connectivity as a necessity. Windstream’s Diverse Connect eliminates single points of failure while creating access diversity and ensuring cloud-based business applications are always running, enabling customers to focus on their business regardless of potential disruptions. Diverse Connect ensures improved network performance, security, and cost savings with guaranteed 99.999% end-to-end availability guarantee that also takes away the burden of having to deal with multiple providers.

Windstream’s Diverse Connect is offered as part of Windstream’s solution set that includes voice, data, Unified Communications and security offerings. It provides customers choices to build out and customize their services based on individual needs and allows them to maintain network redundancy at all times. It is available immediately to customers in Windstream’s nationwide service area.

Benefits of Windstream’s Diverse Connect include:

  • High Uptime: A customer’s employees can stay connected and in touch with the site, and therefore working, in the event of a network issue, mitigating no potential loss of business or revenue due to outage and ensuring continuous employee productivity.

  • Diversity: It enables an additional level of resiliency that goes beyond redundancy. By using multiple, differing backup paths with no shared points of failure, Diverse Connect keeps critical endpoints protected increasing network resiliency even during catastrophic network events.

  • Business Continuity: All the services a customer purchases from Windstream stay up and running even if there's a Fiber cut or other last mile access impairment providing customers with no disruption in their day to day business operations.

  • Service Guarantee: Guaranteed uptime with five-nines’s end-to-end service level agreement with a promise to credit customers for time lost if annual downtime exceeds five minutes per year.

Windstream Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: WIN)

Subscribe and receive the latest news from the industry.
Join 62,000+ members. Yes it's completely free.

You May Also Like