Never be caught in the dark again and support TNPC in the process. As Lee discusses in his article in this issue, it's sometimes a real pain just trying to keep your email flowing. And companies are become very dependent on email in particular and the Internet in general. Most companies have disaster plans for what to do in the event o of bomb threats to their buildings or storms that may snow in the city preventing workers from getting to the office, but not many have addressed the issue of what they'll do if the Internet goes down for any significant amount of time. NorthPoint said they could not give current clients notice that they needed to replace their DSL service and just started pulling plugs.
Most companies are a lot more dependent on the Internet than they realize.
When companies can't get online, work has a tendency to just stop. And we're not talking about an outage measured in hours. We've started laying out a disaster program for one of our clients and we see this as a service that will grow as there are more glitches with the Internet that take longer to get resolved. I'd sure like to hear from you. I'd like to gauge the interest on this topic so I can plan future articles and get a feel for how large a perceived threat this possibility is.