When your plants are connected to the server by any kind of VPN, you are fully dependant on that server for your day to day work.

This is imperative anyway. ( to prevent duplication of data )

So, what to do ? Let us see a case study,

1.      Connectivity between Noida Plant and Greater Noida Plant of an Automobile part manufacturer.

a.      RF connectivity already in place.

d.      Functionality is already in place.

e.      Query of CEO was : How to make it sure ? and how to see that there is never a “down-time”.

f.        Finsys reply was : This is a management decision. If the management feels that the failure is to be avoided , then it must invest to provide for a “redundancy”. The various methods of redundancy are :

                                                               i.      VPN on a high quality internet

                                                             ii.      Leased line from BSNL

                                                            iii.      Leased line from Airtel

                                                           iv.      Tulip connectivity

                                                             v.      Additional / alternate RF Tower

                                                           vi.      Other solutions are also possible.

g.      What next on this point ?

                                                               i.      Each company must decide on this itself and take an action urgently.

                                                             ii.      This is a good suggestion and must be implemented.