Don't underestimate the risk of
Lightning Strikes to your
business
Research
conducted by Carnegie Mellon reveals that 30% of U.S. businesses suffer
damage from lightning storms.
We can back up that study with our own experience... Chesapeake responded
to a number of calls related to system failures due to power surges and
lighting strikes in the heavy storms earlier this month.
And climate scientists predict a doubling or tripling of the number of
lightning strikes in the foreseeable future.
The characteristics of lightening explain its destructive power …
- Lightning reaches 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Voltage in a cloud-to-ground strike is 100 million to 1 billion volts.
- The average lightning strike is six miles long.
- A cloud-to-ground lightning channel can be 2 to 10 miles long.
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Around the earth there are 100
lightning strikes per second
- There are 100,000
thunderstorms in the U.S. each year.
Without Uninterruptible Power,
you're out of business if you lose power during a storm. Direct costs to
your business are incurred when lightning damages equipment, wiring, and
power systems. And then there’s the cost of employee downtime, customer
dissatisfaction, and lost revenue opportunities from service denial.
Protect your technology investments… If you’re developing or refining a
power protection plan, get the experts at Chesapeake
seated at the planning table. Contact us today:
(800) 787-4848 or
jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.
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Teleworking equals Business Continuity
Telework
programs eliminate long drives to work, reduce stress, boost employee
productivity, and attract professionals who want the flexibility to work
anywhere.
A telework program can also keep your business open during
emergencies.
The inherent decentralization provided by
a telework
program enables your business to maintain key services during a
disaster or other emergency situation that can shut down your
office location or make it temporarily inaccessible.
Setting up your employees so they can work from home or remote offices
can sustain a busy headquarters or call center during a crisis. While your
competition scrambles to find a way to stay open, you're ringing up
sales, making deals, and supporting customer needs.
Protecting your operations is just one good reason to set up a telework program
for your business. Your team gets added
productivity with secure "plug and work" access to the corporate voice
and data network from home or on the road.
Reap the immediate business benefits from telework, plus get disaster
protection when you need it. We’ll take care of the details for
you… Contact us today at (800) 787-4848 or
jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.
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Affordable
Call Redirect Services are mission critical
Phone
outages are a fact of life.
Without the ability to handle calls from customers, suppliers and partners –
for whatever reason – you’re out of business! And if the phone company
doesn’t know when your dial tone will be restored, what do you do – send
everyone home? Not if you have an affordable call redirect plan in place…
Typically, a redirect service routes all or just essential business calls to
any pre-defined number(s), including cell phones, telework locations, or
branch offices. Some carriers even offer automatic redirection of PRI
trunks.
Redirect services, available from many phone companies and network service providers,
restore your ability to communicate after a
catastrophic failure or loss. You can be back in business
simply by calling an 800 number to activate your pre-set redirect plan. To
be on the safe side, you should arrange tests to make sure your redirect
service is set up correctly and
readily available.
Call Redirect Services are just one element in a good business continuity
plan. We will help design and implement disaster recovery plan for
your phone system or call center, contact us today at
(800) 787-4848
or email
jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.
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How
Power Backup Systems protect and serve your business
An Uninterruptible Power Supply typically sits between an electric
supply and your phone system, computers, or servers to prevent outages,
brownouts, and surges from adversely affecting the performance of
your business and its systems.
For small businesses, the UPS typically contains a battery that remains
charged by commercial power. When electrical current falls out of an
acceptable range, the UPS kicks in automatically to supply regulated
current to your equipment so it can continue to operate normally.
This capability can save your staff from losing work in progress and
preserve connections to servers that provide applications, databases,
and transaction processing. UPS units are essential to keep IP
Telephone systems running during
power interruptions.
While commercially powered UPS units do the job for many small
businesses, some companies may invest in heavy duty systems to
maintain critical operations during prolonged power outages. Backup generators powered by diesel fuel
or natural gas provide an independent power source.
With a backup power system, your business continues to keep customers
happy during a commercial power outage, while your competitors are
wasting time and money figuring out what to do next.
If you need help sorting through all the UPS units available out there,
we can help select a system that’s right for your business. Call us
today (800) 787-4848 or email
jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.
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A "Be Prepared" UPS Checklist
Your business is susceptible to
unexpected interruptions of any kind: power failures,
natural disasters, civil emergencies and more.
Here is a “Top 10” protection checklist for those who want to prepare for
any power malfunction that could threaten their phone systems, data
networks, or computers…
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Surge protection: Safeguards critical
electronics against power fluctuations before, during, and after a storm.
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Comprehensive protection: Select surge
protectors with telephone/data line/coax protection.
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UPS: An uninterruptible power supply provides
battery-supplied power during a commercial power failure.
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Power management: Software can monitor the
quality of power coming into the building, keep a log of any power events,
and notify you (via pager or e-mail) if any pre-set threshold has been
reached.
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Mobility: Have cables available to recharge
PDAs and cell phones via a notebook computer’s USB port.
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Compatibility: Make sure you cover your mix of desktop operating systems, network
management tools, software applications, and the
array of device plug types, data line connectors, and voltage requirements
you use.
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Continuous availability: Size your UPS according to the required
runtime of your mission critical systems should the power go out.
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Scalable solutions: Many rack, row, or room
level UPS models have the means to add extra batteries to increase power
capacity.
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Battery considerations: UPS batteries
eventually wear out. Choices vary from easy battery replacement, battery
replacement with warranty renewal, or trading an existing unit towards
purchase of a new one.
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Integrated solution: Generators take
time to start up, requiring a crossover solution until they reach the
appropriate power level. A quality UPS is important to bridge this transition.
"Be prepared." Call us today: (800) 787-4848 or
jnolte@chesapeaketelephone.com.
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