A natural disaster doesn’t have to be a network disaster

On December 26th, 2006 a major earthquake struck offshore Taiwan severing undersea cables in 22 locations and wreaking temporary havoc on communications for hundreds of millions throughout East Asia.

Preparation pays—continuity planning leads to rapid traffic restoration

Our disaster recovery engineers took action immediately, leveraging Verizon Business' redundant global networks and multiple cable system investments to re-route traffic—bypassing the earthquake’s impact zone in a matter of hours.

• Verizon Business maintained capacity on its global Private IP network
• Virtually all critical network traffic was back up and running within 12 hours
• Restored partial public IP network to Taiwan within 24 hours
• Re-established key customer networks—again within 24 hours of the disaster

Taiwan Earthquake: A Case Study in Network Disaster

Get all the details on Verizon Business' lightening-quick response to a major natural disaster.

	Verizon Business and the Taiwan Earthquake

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