LEO satellite failover
Satellite Backup Internet for Business, Integrated With Your Firewall
When a second terrestrial circuit can share the same trench, pole, building entrance, or construction risk, client-owned Starlink can add a physically different backup path. Velocity evaluates the site and turns that connection into tested firewall failover.
Starlink is a third-party service. Your business purchases and owns the hardware and service account; plans, pricing, availability, and performance remain controlled by Starlink.
Continuity design
The outage path has to work end to end.
The client controls the third-party Starlink account, subscription, billing, and equipment.
Mounting and obstruction conditions must support the selected satellite hardware at the actual building.
The satellite handoff is connected to a compatible firewall with explicit health checks and traffic policy.
The dish or terminal alone is not enough; the rest of the critical network path also needs backup power.
Satellite failover blueprint
A dish on the roof is not a business continuity design.
The useful outcome comes from fitting client-owned satellite service into the building, firewall, power, application, and monitoring environment.
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Ownership
Client selects and owns service
The business purchases the eligible Starlink hardware and subscription directly, retaining control of the account, billing, plan changes, and provider support.
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Site path
Clear sky and safe cabling
The site survey covers obstructions, mounting approval, weather exposure, cable route, surge considerations, and the path from the terminal to network equipment.
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Integration
Firewall applies backup policy
Compatible Ethernet and dual-WAN configuration provide health checks, route priority, critical-traffic rules, and deliberate failback to the primary provider.
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Readiness
Power, monitoring, and test
UPS scope, alerting, data usage, application behavior, and a controlled outage test document how the office operates during the test.
Platforms we support
Common platforms Velocity supports and coordinates.
- Microsoft 365
- Cisco
- Dell
- VMware
- SonicWall
- Datto
- Veeam
- Ubiquiti
When Satellite Backup Is Worth Evaluating
The building has weak terrestrial diversity
Available wired providers may share the same entry route, pole line, local construction exposure, or upstream dependency.
Carrier construction will take too long
A satellite path may provide interim or backup connectivity while a new office waits for a suitable terrestrial circuit, subject to site and service availability.
Geography limits wired and cellular choices
Industrial yards, remote facilities, construction operations, and edge locations may need a path that is not tied to nearby cable plant or strong cellular coverage.
What the Site Survey and Integration Cover
Sky visibility and mounting approval
We review likely obstructions, roof or wall options, landlord or building-management approval, access, weather exposure, and serviceability.
Cable and Ethernet path
The selected Starlink generation may use bypass mode, direct Ethernet, or an adapter. We verify the practical handoff and cable route before firewall work begins.
Firewall capacity and policy
We confirm dual-WAN support, health monitoring, route priority, VPN implications, DNS behavior, application policy, and failback settings.
Backup-power load
UPS sizing includes the selected satellite equipment and the firewall, switches, access points, phones, payment devices, and other systems needed during an outage.
Traffic and data planning
Critical applications are prioritized while guest traffic, large updates, cloud backups, or other heavy use can be restricted during backup operation.
Monitoring and acceptance test
We verify link health, alerting, failover timing, critical-application behavior, data visibility, and return to the primary provider.
Where Satellite Is Not Automatically the Best Answer
The site cannot provide a suitable sky view
Persistent obstructions can interrupt service and drop packets. A site-specific review is required before relying on the path.
Cellular is simpler and sufficient
A strong 5G/LTE signal, suitable data terms, and a compatible firewall may offer a less complex backup for some urban offices.
The backup workload exceeds the plan
Capacity, latency, data treatment, and provider terms need to fit phones, payments, VPN, cloud applications, and the length of the outage scenario.
Keep the Satellite Path Ready After Installation
Review account and service status
The client keeps the third-party account current and confirms the active plan still matches the intended backup use and location.
Inspect power, cabling, and obstructions
Building work, tree growth, roof changes, cable damage, battery age, or moved equipment can quietly weaken readiness.
Schedule controlled tests
Periodic failover and failback tests reveal expired service, changed firewall behavior, application surprises, or insufficient capacity before a real outage.
Industries served
Service depth for the industries most likely to need managed IT discipline.
Related services
Related Services
Satellite failover site survey
Find out whether satellite is the right diverse path for your building.
Share the building location, current provider, firewall model, roof or mounting constraints, critical applications, and outage history. We will prepare discovery around sky visibility, Ethernet integration, power, policy, and testing.
FAQ
Questions businesses ask about resilient internet.
Is Starlink a good business backup connection?
It can be a strong option when a business needs a path that does not depend on the same local cable route as its primary provider. Suitability still depends on sky visibility, mounting, power, capacity, service terms, and the applications that must operate during an outage.
Do we purchase Starlink from Velocity Technologies?
No. The client purchases and owns the Starlink hardware and service account. Velocity provides assessment, installation coordination, firewall integration, monitoring, documentation, and failover testing.
What must be checked before installation?
The review covers sky visibility, mounting and building approval, cable routing, weather exposure, power and UPS needs, Ethernet compatibility, firewall capacity, critical traffic, and the applications that must work during backup operation.
Does satellite guarantee uninterrupted internet?
No connection is failure-proof. Starlink performance varies with service terms, location, congestion, obstructions, weather, equipment, and other conditions. The goal is to reduce dependence on a single terrestrial provider and verify the design under test.
Will our existing firewall work with Starlink?
Possibly. Compatibility depends on available WAN interfaces, Starlink hardware generation and Ethernet method, health-monitoring features, throughput, VPN design, and the failover policy required. Velocity verifies those details before implementation.
Can Starlink keep phones and payment systems working?
Potentially, but only after the path, power, capacity, and application behavior are tested. Voice, payment, VPN, and cloud sessions can react differently when the public route changes. The design prioritizes critical traffic and documents what continues automatically versus what may need to reconnect.