We are a Florida company. Every June we watch the same movie: the storm makes landfall, the grid goes down, the fiber gets cut, one carrier’s towers lose backhaul — and the businesses, agencies, and crews that most need to communicate are the first ones offline. Connectivity is the second disaster.
It does not have to be. The same bonded, multi-path architecture that runs live broadcast and ships at sea was built for exactly this situation: keep working when individual paths do not.
The Hurricane Survival Kit
A pre-staged case that turns on when everything else turns off:
- Bonded multi-carrier 5G + Starlink — when one carrier’s towers are dark and the cable is cut, the bond rides whatever survives. Satellite doesn’t care that the poles are down.
- Battery/UPS power built in (APC 1400/2200-class) — bridges outages and generator switchovers without dropping a session.
- Pre-configured, zero-touch — ships ready; power + antennas and you’re online. Managed remotely by our NOC the moment it connects.
- Storm-season data — pair with a West 5G pool or event pass: activate when the cone appears, suspend when the season ends.
Who stages these kits
- Emergency operations & municipalities — EOC backup communications that don’t share fate with the grid.
- Utility & restoration crews — connectivity for staging areas and fleets working where the infrastructure is the casualty.
- Insurance catastrophe teams — claims processing from the parking lot, day one.
- Retail, fuel, and healthcare reopening — the first store or clinic back online is the one the whole town uses. Point-of-sale needs a network before the poles are back up.
Why bonding matters most in a disaster
Failover assumes something survives to fail over to — and picks one path to trust. After a storm, every path is suspect: towers on generator, cables under trees, satellite in the rain. Packet-level bonding treats them all as partial resources and builds one working connection out of several broken ones. That is not a luxury feature in week one after landfall; it is the difference between open and closed.
FAQ
How fast can a kit be live after landfall?
If it’s pre-staged: minutes after power (battery or generator) — the kit is pre-configured and phones home on its own. If ordered after the storm: we ship configured kits same/next day and they self-provision on arrival.
What if all the cell towers are down?
Starlink carries the site alone if it must; cellular rejoins the bond automatically as carriers recover. The connection strengthens as the infrastructure heals — with no reconfiguration.
Do we pay for data all year?
No. Storm-season pools and per-event passes activate when a storm threatens and suspend after. You own the hardware; the data follows the weather.
Is this proven, or theory?
It’s the same architecture that keeps vessels connected mid-ocean and live sports on air — environments where “the infrastructure failed” is a normal Tuesday. A disaster zone is what it was designed for.