Can I have more than one type of connectivity for redundancy?

Yes, and for any business where an internet outage has a real cost, whether that's lost sales, dropped calls, or a team unable to work, running more than one connectivity type is one of the highest-value resilience investments available.

Why One Connection Isn't Enough

Every connectivity type has a single point of failure somewhere: a fibre line can be cut by construction or cable theft, a microwave link can be blocked by a new building or extreme weather, an LTE tower can lose power or become congested. Running two genuinely independent connections means the failure of one doesn't take your whole business offline, because the second path doesn't share the same physical infrastructure or failure point.

Common Redundancy Combinations

• Fibre + LTE/5G failover, the most common setup for SMEs: fibre as primary for cost-effective high-speed connectivity, with an LTE SIM automatically taking over if fibre drops. Since LTE runs on entirely separate infrastructure (mobile towers, not fibre trenches), a fibre cut doesn't affect it at all.
• Fibre + microwave, used where genuinely independent physical paths matter more, since both are wired/fixed technologies with higher sustained bandwidth than LTE, this suits businesses with heavier continuous bandwidth needs that still want a true second path.
• Dual fibre providers, for businesses where even LTE's bandwidth ceiling is a concern, running fibre from two different network operators (ideally on physically separate routes into the building) protects against provider-specific outages.

How Automatic Failover Actually Works

The key word is automatic. A dual-WAN router continuously monitors both connections and, the moment it detects the primary has failed, redirects all traffic to the backup within seconds, without anyone needing to notice or manually intervene. Without proper failover configuration, having two connections but requiring someone to manually switch a cable defeats much of the purpose.

What This Actually Protects

For a business running VoIP, a dropped primary connection without failover means every call in progress disconnects and no new calls can come in or go out. For a retail business, it means card payment terminals stop working. For a professional services firm, it means the team is locked out of cloud-based tools and email. Redundant connectivity with automatic failover means these interruptions become a brief, often unnoticed blip instead of an hours-long operational stoppage.

Cost Versus Risk

Redundant connectivity isn't free, you're paying for two connections instead of one, though the backup link (particularly LTE failover) is typically far cheaper than the primary. The right way to think about it isn't the monthly cost in isolation, it's that cost weighed against what an hour, or a full business day, of downtime actually costs your specific business in lost revenue, missed calls, or damaged customer trust.

Our Approach

We design failover configurations as part of a proper connectivity assessment, not a generic add-on. That means understanding what actually breaks for your business when connectivity drops, and sizing the backup link and failover configuration to genuinely solve that, rather than selling redundancy as a blanket upsell regardless of whether it matches your actual risk.