Abstract
The Disaster Recovery Data Networking for a Financial Institution details the advanced data networking challenges that a Credit Union faced during a project to improve its disaster recovery capabilities. By examining this technically interesting project, one can gain a better understanding of the practical application of advanced data networking technologies and the reasoning behind their use in an organizational setting. These technologies were used to build a geographically disperse site-to-site bridged network segment to support the disaster recovery capabilities of an active/passive core host cluster. This project report shows that a Credit Union employed these technologies to meets its strategic organizational goals of providing business continuity capabilities in the event of a disaster that destroys or otherwise makes its centralized data center core resources unavailable. The successful application of these advanced data networking technologies was instrumental in meeting the organization’s strategic objectives in this area. Despite the complexity and technical challenges of the advanced data network technologies employed to solve the Credit Union’s business continuity problems, the success was driven as much by solid project management practices, such as detailed planning, organizational support and expert advice, as by technical expertise.