In this article let’s talk about Big Leaf again. Why? Because Big Leaf has a magic IP address. What’s in an IP address, you ask? Well, let’s figure out why it’s important for your business internet service. The IP address tells the internet world your location. The web needs to know an address to find and deliver information to you, not unlike a mailing address for your business. So, if your main IP address goes down, then the folks on the web can’t find you and you cannot reach them either. There are several ways an IP address can go down. First, your IP address can go down if your internet provider’s network is not available. Many times IT folks will assign the carrier’s IP address to their firewall. Again, if the IP goes down, there’s no internet service. This will cause difficulties. If the IP address is down, of course, other services on your network will be interrupted as well. There are different ways to overcome this dilemma. Here at RAM, we found that our partner Big Leaf has answered these concerns using their own IP on their own Big Leaf platform. Let’s take a closer look. The Big Leaf IP address sits on their device in front of your firewall. This solves a few problems. First, because Big Leaf’s network is diverse, which means the Big Leaf IP address that gets assigned to your service is more stable and available than what your typical internet provider has on their network. Second, Big Leaf shares the IP address with the firewall. This means as long as the Big Leaf IP is alive, all of your network devices and functions stay connected to the internet. The firewall continues to hand out its own private network addresses to all the devices at your office. And with a second internet connection, the Big Leaf is also providing realtime internet redundancy. Now, for those folks who are concerned about hardware redundancy, Big Leaf offers a redundant device that keeps all the same configurations and that magic IP address in the event the primary Big Leaf device goes down to be sure that same Big Leaf IP address will stay alive and serve as the gateway for your firewall and all of your critical services. It’s a great solution and it’s much more economical than other solutions in the tech marketplace today. If you want more information, contact us here at RAM anytime and we will be happy to share more information about Big Leaf Solution and other solutions that we can provide you and your business. Have a great day and thank you for watching.
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