MCI expands business continuity and disaster recovery solutions

MCI, Inc. has announced that it has expanded its disaster recovery capabilities for government customers to include back-up voice services that will restore incoming communications within minutes.

In addition, MCI is expanding its business continuity solutions for its fastest growing service, Private IP, to include a comprehensive suite of options, enabling customers to better prepare for unforeseen events.

MCI has introduced its 'Voice Continuity' solution, offered in conjunction with TeleContinuity, Inc., to help federal and state government agencies meet continuity of operations planning (COOP) requirements.

In the event of an equipment failure, natural disaster or building evacuation, the MCI Voice Continuity solution can reroute calls to maintain telephone service. Calls can be delivered to any location and to any device including phones, computers and PDAs.

"Disaster recovery planning is an integral part of a successful business plan," said Jerry Edgerton, senior vice president of MCI Government Markets. "MCI works closely with government agencies to provide advice and guidance to help build an effective strategy that ensures their operations run continuously."

With enhancements to MCI's MPLS-based VPN Private IP, customers can take advantage of redundancy at the physical circuit level, within the network routers and at the provider-edge routers to ensure continuous network uptime. Diverse access options also contribute to a more robust solution and include dial, DSL and cable back-up via Secure Interworking Gateway, and access via Frame Relay, ATM and satellite. 

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