An outage resulting in downtime can wreak havoc on a business. On average, businesses lose between $84,000 and $108,000 for every single hour of IT system downtime and the cost of an unplanned data center outage is slightly over $7,900 a minute.
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More Cut Cables Cause Communication Outages in Nevada, Washington
A construction crew accidentally cut a fiber optic cables new Las Vega, leaving CenturyLink customers without service. Outages affect phones (including 911 calls), Internet access and store purchases They cost businesses thousands of dollars in lost productivity and revenue and also damage reputations.
Read MoreTime Warner Customers Suffer Widespread Internet Outage
Even the best ISP has bad days. If you are one of Time Warner’s business customer without a second ISP link, then you were out of luck during this internet outage.
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