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Elisa Offers 3G Services to Provide Customers With Wireless Broadband Backup

Posted on: Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 09:00 CST

Elisa, a Finland-based communications services provider, has announced new 3G services that offer wireless broadband backup to wireline data connections, which help customers maintain connectivity.

The new services will also help business customers rapidly connect remote or temporary work locations to their corporate networks in a fraction of the time typically required to install a traditional wired connection.

Elisa's Redundant High Availability Services will benefit customers who require maximum availability of network resources at all times. By equipping the customer premises with an Elisa-managed router, a 3G card and a fixed-access card, based on the Cisco ISR, Elisa can help protect customers against faults caused on the fixed-access network such cable cuts or local access outages. This service is particularly suitable for customers in the retail business where the ability to process credit and debit card transactions is critical at all times.

Elisa is also offering a Business Network Subscription Service where 3G serves as the primary connection between the end customer site and Elisa's core Internet Protocol (IP) network. This service allows Elisa customers who have temporary or remote work sites to establish a connection in a matter of hours using 3G connectivity in the absence of a wired connection. Typical examples of such a deployment would be a branch office, construction sites or seasonal holiday resorts.

Both services are based on Cisco's 3G wireless high-speed WAN interface card (HWIC), which adds 3G functionality to Cisco's Integrated Services Router series of Customer Edge Routers. The Cisco Integrated Services Router with an Elisa-powered Cisco 3G Wireless HWIC will help customers ensure maximum availability of critical IT services and minimize the costs and time it takes to set up a communications network at temporary installations like sales kiosks or construction sites.

The Cisco 3G wireless HWIC can also take full advantage of Elisa's High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) capable network, where downlink speeds of up to 3.6 megabits per second is possible. Elisa has been a worldwide early adopter of this technology, which now can effectively be used for corporate customers' benefit.

Source: Datamonitor

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