In today’s digital world, we expect the internet to be fast, reliable, and always available. But behind the scenes networks face constant challenges, from hardware failures and cyberattacks to traffic spikes and natural disasters. These disruptions can cause downtime, slow performance, or even complete outages.
Network resilience is the ability of a network to keep operating smoothly and recover quickly when something goes wrong. It ensures that services stay online, even during unexpected events. In short, a resilient network is one that can take a hit and keep going.
Why is Network Resilience Important?
Resilience matters because downtime can be costly. Whether you’re a business, a service provider, or an end user, interruptions in connectivity such as outages can be serious. Lost revenue, frustrated customers, and even security vulnerabilities are common outcomes when networks fail.
A resilient network helps avoid these problems by:
- Maintaining uptime – Services remain available even during failures.
- Recovering quickly – Issues are resolved fast, minimising impact.
- Handling threats – Resilient networks are better equipped to deal with attacks.
- Delivering consistent performance – Users get a reliable experience.
How to Improve Network Resilience?
Improving network resilience isn’t just about having backups, it’s about building a network that can adapt and recover quickly. But how can this be done?
It starts with redundancy. By providing data more than one path to travel so if something fails for example a third party outage, you can rest assured knowing your data take an alternative route. Diversity also strengthens resilience. Using varied technologies, providers, and locations can help reduce risk and avoid single points of failure. Networks also need to be flexible, able to scale with demand and respond to changing conditions, whilst continuously monitoring to detect and resolve any issues before they impact users.
How does LINX Help Build Resilient Networks?
As one of the world’s leading Internet Exchanges, we help networks improve resilience through:
Reducing reliance on long-haul transit providers by providing an ecosystem for direct peering between networks. This keeps traffic local, improves performance, and lowers the risk of single points of failure.
Our Dual LAN in London, that allows networks to have a dual presence across our london metro (LON1 & LON2).
Offering route server diversity, using both BIRD and OpenBGPD routing platforms. Members aren’t reliant on a single system so if one platform experiences a fault, the other can continue to operate, ensuring uninterrupted service.
Providing 24/7 operational support, through our Network Operations Centre (NOC) who monitor our network, swiftly detecting and resolving issues to prevent service interruptions.
Want to know more about how LINX can help you add resilience into your interconnection strategy? Click the button below to speak to a member of the team.
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