Network Preparedness

Disaster
Preparedness &
Recovery

Main | Network Preparedness | Emergency Supplies & Equipment

Network Preparedness

Many organizations and individuals turn to wireless networks for their communications needs when wired systems and power supplies are interrupted. Stay connected! Ensure critical communication networks are up and running during disasters, storms and power outages through redundant systems or a completely separate wireless network infrastructure.

View Featured Products for Disaster Preparedness

Physically Diverse Networks

In emergency situations it is not enough to have a redundant system — you need a network with a totally separate physical path to ensure your critical communications are not interrupted. TESSCO provides many options for true disaster preparedness.

Premise Wiring

Communications Closet

Wi-Fi Hotspot

Campus Coverage—Business, Education, & Healthcare

Enhanced Cellular Coverage

Redundancy

Design in or build in redundancy for your critical communication needs whether you are in Public Safety, Healthcare, or Education with the following solutions:

Nera

DragonWave

BridgeWave

Featured Products

LinkUPS™ Backup Power Systems for Wireless Networks

The New LinkUPS™ outdoor backup power system by Ventev is specifically designed to provide both primary as well as uninterrupted, reliable standby power for critical SCADA, surveillance, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and mesh networking equipment in harsh environmental applications. The durable NEMA 3R weatherproof enclosure has ample room for installation of radio gear including proprietary PoE interface equipment and contains environmentally hardened AC-DC power circuitry rated for long life in freezing as well as sun-baked environments.

Temperature-compensated charge voltage ensures that backup batteries are ready when AC power fails and provides hours of backup for loads up to 100 watts.

Separate removable backplane for easy equipment integration inside the cabinet
Auto ranging input 85 VAC to 264 VAC
Insulated battery compartment protects batteries
Remote monitoring circuitry
Preinstalled DIN rails provide easy equipment mounting
12, 24 VDC or 120 VAC and 48 VDC PoE output options available

Want to Learn More About LinkUPS?

Download LinkUPS Datasheet— packed with details and specs

Emergency Network Connectivity from TESSCO

The Wireless Solutions Rapid Deployment Kit provides emergency network connectivity in disaster recovery situations. Devised to minimize downtime, the kit installs quickly with a single connection on each end and the audio alignment feature ensures maximum performance. Once in place the bridge provides up to 45Mbps of usable throughput to transport data, voice, and video traffic in excess of 20 miles.

Is Your Network Down?
Get the Emergency Network Kit by Tomorrow!

GE80/AR80 Gigabit Wireless Link

New 80 GHz Products Deliver 1 Gig Speed Over Longer Distances

BridgeWave’s new AR80 & GE80 80GHz point-to-point wireless bridges provide reliable wireless connectivity up to 5 miles. The AR80 & GE80 high-capacity links are perfectly suited for applications such as inter-building LAN extensions, server centralization, remote data storage & backup, redundant fiber overlays, disaster recovery and backhaul.

View BridgeWave Distance Chart

Built upon BridgeWave’s field proven 60 GHz product platform, the new unlicensed AR80 & GE80 wireless links offer 10 times the bandwidth of comparably-priced lower-frequency, licensed-band wireless links, while providing superior interference immunity and data security.

More information available on BridgeWave's homepage.

Have Access In Hours Not Weeks

When disaster strikes Firetide's Mesh Networking system can be deployed within hours to get critical communications up and running quickly. Firetide's HotPort Wireless Mesh Nodes are fast, easy to set up and are "self-healing". HotPort nodes automatically find each other to form the mesh network, and you can continue operations even if a node is taken offline or its radio transmission interrupted. Firetide Mesh Networking solutions are available in 2.4Ghz, 4.9Ghz and 5.8 Ghz ranges in both indoor and outdoor configurations.