• Overview
• Managed Branch Connectivity (WAN)
• Backup Network Connectivity (WAN)
• Hosted Voice & Connectivity
• Internet Connectivity
  with Security
• Remote Employee
  Data Access
• Core & ATM Processing Connectivity
• Co-location Facility

Co-location Facility

The Challenge

The increasing pressure from regulators and IT auditors on community banks to comply with Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) provisions is driving up cost. Many community banks use third party data centers to host backup servers (in combination with their own facilities) to comply with ever increasing challenges to meet FFIEC guidelines for BC and DR requirements. Third party solutions have robust designs but they can be very expensive. Customers pay for space as well as bandwidth access, network security, etc.

The BITS Solution

BITS Co-location Service provides BITS customers with a secure off-site facility to store backup and recovery servers at a fraction of the market cost. BITS customers do not pay additional costs for bandwidth, firewall, or network security, since all customer branches are connected to BITS data centers. From a bank's network design perspective, the BITS Co-location servers will look and appear to the bank as another branch location on the BITS network. Servers and applications housed datacenter are always active and can operate in real time depending on the applications that the customer uses for replication and backup. BITS Co-location Service is different from competing hosting solutions since we only provide the Co-location service exclusively to community banks that utilize our Managed Connectivity Service (MPLS Network).