In today’s always-on digital economy, customers are not forgiving when they experience downtime. And networking issues cause a large portion of those IT outages. According to Uptime Institute’s 2022 Data Center Resiliency Survey, networking-related problems have been the single biggest cause of all IT service downtime incidents–regardless of severity–over the past three years. Establishing redundancy, both locally and across geographic regions, is critical for achieving maximum resiliency. Businesses incur significant costs from outages, which go beyond lost revenue. For example, the mean time to recovery (MTTR) is ramping up. According to a 2022 Opengear study, it now takes organizations an…

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