Point-to-Point Applications In today’s networked world, it is often necessary to connect two or more of your sites together, forming one network that spans miles. This can be done traditionally across the Internet, but there are great limitations to be had when going this route. Your network will depend on not only your equipment, but on equipment located outside your facilities that isn’t managed by your staff. This means that if they experience a problem, your connection can probably be routed differently, but there are no guarantees that your network will remain connected. In addition, your bandwidth can be severely limited by Internet traffic when your network connections are publicly routed. All of these issues combined can create a major headache for the IT and Network Support staff of your organization. Costly downtime, confusion and denial over who is at fault when things go wrong, combined with bandwidth issues have kept network professionals from attempting such connections in the past. A RichmondAir Point-to-Point link, however, transcends these issues. All the equipment for your network remains on your sites. This ensures the simplest, and therefore fastest and most reliable route between your sites. There are no middlemen to mess with, and no costly hours wasted determining who is at fault in the event of a network outage. You will be able to use common IP addressing schemes, and everything at both sites will be as easily accessible as if it were right next to you. Bandwidth will also never be an issue with a RichmondAir Point-to-Point link. We have the ability to provide either a dumb pipe (meaning connection speeds that maintain a constant 60 MB a second and transmit only the intra-network traffic between your sites) or a link that carries a live Internet connection. In addition, you will receive the one on one personal support that you can always expect from RichmondAir. If, for some reason, your mission critical connection goes down at 3 am, and you need help ASAP, RichmondAir will have a technician on their way to your site as soon as you make that phone call. At RichmondAir, we do not believe in the ‘One to two business days” style of support. We know that today’s high tech world depends heavily on network connectivity, and as a result, that the continued maintenance and support necessary to maintain that connectivity is vital.