What is BCP?
Broadcasters today face new challenges in preparing for the continuity of their business following a possible catastrophic event that disables their transmission facility. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the process of deciding how your business will continue transmission – and generation of revenue – if your transmission facility is rendered inoperable.
Whether referred to as a plan for “disaster recovery” or “business continuity”, such a contingency plan must be flexible enough to bridge a wide variety of outages at your primary transmission site, without major financial impact to your company. At the same time, any plan to survive an unlikely catastrophic event must also make sense within the economics of an ongoing business.
To support broadcasters with the tools required to ensure business continuity, OmniBus offers a cost-effective solution for backup operations based on our revolutionary iTX transmission system.
The Need for BCP
A business continuity plan needs to accommodate a variety of primary transmission site outages with a flexible solution that can adapt to both short- and long-term requirements.
Short-term outages from a few hours to a few days can result from public power outages or the failure of broadband communications linking your primary site to network feeds or uplink facilities. Likewise, a backup transmission site provides a ready alternative during scheduled maintenance or upgrade of the primary site.
Process Flow for Primary-Backup Transmission Sites
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Long-term backup is essential for protection of your revenue over weeks or months when your primary site is rendered inoperable by a catastrophic event such as fire, hurricane, tornado or terrorist incident. |
BCP as a Path to New Technology
The transition to IT-based solutions in broadcasting brings compelling benefits in the cost of deployment, simplicity of operation and flexibility to adapt to emerging requirements. However, IT-based solutions also represent a dramatic paradigm shift away from conventional broadcast solutions. Eliminating the reliance on traditional broadcast hardware in favor of a software solution is a major transition, especially in the area of on-air transmission that directly affects revenue. As a result, broadcasters are often cautious when moving away from their conventional transmission system. In that context, implementation of a business continuity plan is an ideal opportunity to move your company into this new technology.
OmniBus iTX provides a unique combination of lower capital and operating costs with the latest in an IT-based, software solution for backup site transmission. An iTX transmission system in your backup facility not only meets all your requirements for business continuity, but also provides your company with the experience and confidence to deploy new channels based on iTX and to plan for transition of your primary transmission facility to this compelling new technology.
Learn more
- Planning for Business Continuity
- Operational Considerations
- BCP Technology
- Reducing Capital and Operating Costs
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