What is Our Resilient Operational Infrastructure

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Secure, distributed digital infrastructure designed to keep operations running when connectivity, infrastructure or central services are degraded.

Beacon Management Solutions has experience developing and supporting resilient operational environments within Defence, where communications may be constrained, remote, intermittent or unavailable.

We apply those same architectural principles to organisations operating critical, distributed and remote infrastructure.

Our approach brings together secure connectivity, resilient networking, local compute, operational services, monitoring, service management and governance into a single operational capability.

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Designed for degraded environments

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Traditional enterprise networks are usually designed around reliable connectivity to central services.

Operational environments are different.

Remote sites, offshore assets, emergency response teams, infrastructure operators and distributed workforces may need to continue operating even when their primary network connection is lost.

Our architectures are designed to support continued operation through:

• resilient multi-bearer connectivity;

• automatic failover between available communications paths;

• local edge compute;

• local availability of critical services;

• secure access and segmentation;

• centralised monitoring and management;

• remote engineering and support;

• operational service management;

• asset and configuration visibility; and

• structured incident, problem and change management.

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More than connectivity

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Resilience is not simply about maintaining an internet connection.

True operational resilience requires the network, applications, services, users and support organisation to continue functioning together.

Our approach considers the complete operational environment:

• Connectivity

• Fixed, mobile, satellite and other available bearers.

• Resilient Network

• Secure routing, segmentation and failover between operational locations.

• Edge Capability

• Local compute and service availability where central services cannot be guaranteed.

• Operational Services

• Applications, information, monitoring and situational-awareness services available close to the user.

• Central Management

• Visibility, monitoring and remote administration across distributed environments.

• Service Management

• Incident, problem, change, knowledge, asset and configuration management supporting the operational capability.

• Governance and Assurance

• Defined processes, responsibilities, controls and evidence supporting secure and accountable operations.

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Developed from demanding operational environments

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Our experience includes the development and support of secure, resilient distributed infrastructure within Defence.

This has required us to consider not only network connectivity, but the wider operational environment: edge services, monitoring, high availability, service management, governance, support, configuration control and operational resilience.

We use this experience to help organisations identify where similar architectural principles can reduce operational risk and improve resilience across their own environments.

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Start with the problem

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We do not begin with a fixed product.

We begin by understanding:

• what services must remain available;

• where operations take place;

• how sites currently communicate;

• what happens when connectivity is lost;

• which users and systems require local access;

• how the environment is monitored and managed; and

• what level of resilience the organisation actually requires.

From this, we can develop an architecture appropriate to the operational environment.

If your organisation operates remote, distributed or critical infrastructure and needs to understand how operations could continue through loss or degradation of connectivity, speak to us.