Can your business afford even an hour offline?
In March 2019, Facebook experienced a 14-hour outage, costing the company nearly $90 million in lost revenue and productivity. In August 2016, Delta Airlines lost $150 million in just five hours of downtime.
They recovered. But can your business?
For many companies, network failures aren’t just inconvenient, they’re a financial disaster. The average cost of downtime has surged to $9,000 per minute, and for some industries, that number reaches millions per hour.
Let’s break down why connectivity failures cost so much, and how to prevent them.
📉 The Real Cost of Downtime: Industry Breakdown
A single hour offline can have a devastating financial impact, depending on the industry. Here’s what businesses stand to lose:
Estimated Downtime Cost for Big Companies
🚨 Among large enterprises, 98% report that a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000.
The numbers are clear: being offline is not an option.
🔎 Multiple providers ≠ true redundancy.
Even with different ISPs, shared infrastructure (like backbones, POPs, or fiber routes) can still create a single point of failure. True network resilience comes from combining truly diverse providers, connecting through independent POPs, and using physically separate routes, ideally across different access technologies like Fiber, LEO, FWA, and 5G.
When a network goes down, businesses suffer from:
- Lost Revenue – Online transactions stop, and customers move to competitors.
- Operational Disruptions – Employees lose access to critical tools and services.
- Security Risks – Unstable networks increase vulnerability to cyber threats.
- Reputational Damage – Clients and partners lose confidence in your reliability.
🛡️ The Solution: Building a Network That Never Goes Down
Avoiding downtime means adopting a multi-layered connectivity strategy that ensures redundancy and real-time network visibility.
At LatWan, we design resilient, high-performance networks by integrating multiple connectivity layers:
- Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) – High-speed, reliable connectivity, typically delivered over fiber or licensed radio technologies.
- Starlink LEO (Low Earth Orbit) – Low-latency, high-speed satellite internet ideal for remote locations or as a failover solution. Delivers up to 99.9% uptime.
- Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) & Radio – Flexible alternatives to complement fiber networks.
- OMNI by LatWan – A centralized platform to source, manage, and monitor all your network connections in one place.
By combining different technologies into a single managed solution, businesses eliminate single points of failure and ensure 24/7 operations, even when outages (inevitably) happen.
📢 The Question Isn’t If Downtime Will Happen, It’s When
Every business will face network disruptions. The real question is: Will you be prepared when it happens?
Let’s talk about how to keep your business always connected: https://latwan.com/
📌 Sources:
📖 Atlassian – Cost of Downtime
📖 The 20 – The Cost of IT Downtime
📖 Garvey – 7 Downtime Statistics
📖 IIOT World – Cost of Downtime in Manufacturing
