Managed Internet in Aberdeen

What is different about managed internet in Aberdeen

Connectivity in Aberdeen is judged on whether it stays up rather than how fast it is. Operations supporting offshore work, the harbour and the Dyce corridor run to schedules that do not care that a circuit is down, and the cost of an outage is measured in vessel or crew time rather than in lost emails. That justifies a genuinely diverse second path here far more often than it does elsewhere on our patch.

Diverse is the word that needs checking rather than assuming. Two circuits from two suppliers that share the same duct into the building are one circuit with two bills, and that is a common and expensive surprise. Where true physical diversity is not available, a 4G or 5G path on a different network at least removes the single point of failure in the ground.

Questions we get asked in Aberdeen

We already have two lines from two suppliers. Is that resilient?

Not necessarily, and it is worth confirming rather than assuming. Two circuits often share the same duct, chamber or building entry, which means one digger takes out both. We check the physical path rather than the paperwork, and where genuine diversity is not available a mobile path on a different network is the honest alternative.

What does failover actually look like when a circuit drops?

Done properly, most people do not notice beyond a brief pause — traffic moves to the second path automatically and comes back when the primary is stable. What matters is testing it deliberately rather than discovering during an incident, so we fail it over on purpose after install and again periodically.