Online Backup

With SureWests’s online backup service you have the reliability of a secure, fully redundant network operations center located inside California’s third largest incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). We’ve been providing advanced communications products and services to those in our regional community for 90 years. Your online data backup is carried through a secure transport method with multiple failsafe features.


Online backup Features:

  • 100 percent fiber optic backbone
  • High-capacity storage are network (SAN) for backup files
  • SAN is backed up to tape libraries
  • Backups can be restored to CD on request
  • Backup data center physically secured
  • Multi-carrier network access
  • Online backup network: standard features
  • MIT storage area networks
  • StorageTek tape libraries
  • Wholly located inside California's third largest incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC)
  • Multiple and redundant core switches and edge routers
  • Redundant servers comprised of Sun, Dell and HP
  • Highly secured physical access with fully-redundant environmental controls and fire-suppression systems
  • Direct connection to three broadband fiber rings with diverse paths, throughout the Sacramento metro area
  • Tier 1 peering allowing for multiple, diverse and fully-redundant connections to the Internet backbone
  • Automatic rerouting of backup network traffic in the event of a backbone failure
  • Secured through an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and backup generator
  • Active transfer technology, allowing no possibility for power surges
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • 24 x 7 monitoring, 365 days-a-year from our network operations data center
  • A mix of active/active and active/standby systems with automatic fail-over
  • Knowledgeable, well-trained staff with years of ISP experience