Baytree Communications Systems, Inc., or BCS2(sm), is a business solutions company with extensive business, technical, and academic credentials in disaster recovery planning (DRP), communications, computers, as well as critical business systems documentation, education and training. BCS2(sm) may be headquartered in the Southeast, but our service area extends to the 48 contiguous United States. If you like, you can download a brief Powerpoint about us by clicking here.
Our services are useful to any enterprise; however, they are absolutely essential to all that include communications, a computer or a network as a strategic resource to conduct business. Potential uses of our service are limited only by our customers' needs. Technically, our focus is on your critical business information systems and related planning, communications, education and training needs; whether they be manual or automated, local or international, simple or complex.
One article describing a study of chief business officers engaged in disaster recovery planning in higher education recently noted "...nearly seven in ten reported their institution has never completely tested its disaster recovery plans. (Shroads, D. Disaster Recovery and Your Best Laid Plans. Trusteeship. September-October, 2005.)
DRP seminars persented by community and local emergency services groups are designed to do three things: 1) raise community awareness about likely disaster scenarios, challanges, and resources, 2) solicit engagement in some portion of the community planning, and 3) meet the sponsoring organization(s) outreach commitments to show their community mission is being accomplished. All three are legitimate, laudable, and valuable . . . to the community at large. Individually and as a company, the founders of BCS2(sm) have supported, sponsored, and presented such events in parts of four states, so we can say with authority that such seminars cannot provide your enterprise the safety and piece of mind that your critical business information systems, both manual and electronic have been competently identified and documented, that your planning and training have been independently evaluated against an established DRP or training model, or even that your external DRP interfaces appropriately into the broader community planning.
Our DRP experience includes manual business systems, as well as mainframe, distributed, client-server, and networked facilities of all sizes. One BCS2(sm) founder has conducted accredited research into DRP and been published on the subject. Two of our founders recently worked with emergency services at the federal and state level in Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
"...disaster recovery is a not technical problem; it is a business problem that may or may not involve technical issues and resources." (Shroads, D. Disaster recovery of critical business information systems in colleges and universities: a descriptive and exploratory study. 2005. p.35.
BCS2(sm) offers two broad types of telecommunications services, value added beyond services from Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) and synchronous (equal both directions) bandwidth aggregation. Examples of the former, would be point-to-point T-1, fractional T-1, or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). The latter can include any combination of transport including the wireless mediums mentioned previously. Our networking solutions focus on custom, hybrid services provided via Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol or TCP/IP. Copper wire, fiber-optic cable, and wireless (laser/microwave/radio) communications either singly or in combination are all viable transport mediums for our networking services. Client network uses include data transmission, voice-over-IP telephone service, integrated voice and data capacity, and off-site data-storage.
Area economic development managers and others in business agree there is an opportunity and need for a technology-based, community oriented company capable of providing high-value, reliable training and service to local businesses and to encourage both new and existing businesses to move forward only with thoughtful disaster recovery planning in place.
When it comes to communications and networking, large, national carriers have not responded appropriately and have left community leaders trying to figure out how to encourage local businesses to modernize and to attract the businesses of tomorrow when served by an infrastructure that is mainly from one to four decades old and that is managed by entities that have been unresponsive to local needs.
Other local companies have not filled that gap and, some argue, have fallen short on their promises to do so. BCS2(sm) has positioned itself to be the solution to part of the continuing communications and planning problem in this region. Its founders and advisors are all committed to expanding a world-class resource to serve the area.