If you've got a mission-critical application going get fiber coming in from TWO different directions. Get a PBX with redundant CPUs etc., have a disaster plan.
What are you going to do when:
A drunk knocks down the pole outside the building and you lose fibre, copper, electric.
Telco does an upgrade on their CO and you lose service for a day.
Your server crashes.
And on and on and on.
What's your plan "B"?
Years ago I did Disaster Avoidance and Recovery Consulting for a major Multinational. I was amazed at the stories I got from the people I spoke to at various large companies. Usually I was there AFTER they had a crisis and couldn't recover from it in a timely fashion. They would lose(or had lost) millions but it never occurred to them that something might happen to them. Accidents and disasters were always something that happened to OTHER people.
Sam
