Branch Connectivity & SD-WAN Failover
Resilient connectivity with automatic failover so tellers, ATMs, and core systems stay online across every branch.
Industry Focus
Financial Services
Banks, credit unions, and advisory firms run on uptime, security, and trust. FreeTEM keeps your branches connected and compliant — and your technology spend disciplined.
- $0 cost to you
- One advisor, every branch
- Supplier-funded
In financial services, downtime and a data breach both cost trust you can’t buy back.
A branch offline is a branch closed
Tellers, ATMs, and core systems all depend on connectivity. A single circuit with no failover can shut a branch for the day — a 99.99% uptime target leaves under an hour of downtime a year, and hitting it takes redundancy.
Security and PCI are existential
Financial data is among the most-targeted by cyberattacks, and IBM estimates the average data breach now costs $4.88M — PCI and data-security obligations leave no room for a weak network.
Life-safety on aging copper
Alarms, vaults, and elevators often still ride on aging POTS lines that quietly cost money and degrade.
Compliant communications
Voice systems increasingly need compliant call recording and retention that legacy hardware can’t deliver.
Facility energy & water
Branch HVAC, lighting, and water are real costs rarely benchmarked across locations in deregulated markets.
Multi-branch bill drift
Each branch carries its own providers and contracts, with no single advisor auditing the whole institution.
What FreeTEM helps you fix.
PCI & Cybersecurity Compliance
Segmentation and security matched to PCI and financial data-protection requirements.
Compliant Voice / UCaaS
Cloud phone systems with compliant call recording and retention, replacing aging hardware.
POTS Replacement (Alarms / Vaults)
Move alarm, vault, and elevator lines off costly aging copper to modern, monitored digital service.
Multi-Branch Bill Audit
One advisor auditing telecom and utility spend across every branch — catching errors and silent renewals.
Energy & Water Efficiency
Benchmark energy supply in deregulated markets; through ExactWater, facilities typically see 30–45% water reductions, backed by a 120-day guarantee.
Representative Scenario
What an audit can surface for a multi-branch institution.
An illustrative scenario built from published industry figures — not a FreeTEM client result. The setup: a multi-branch institution on a single circuit per branch, with aging alarm lines and security exposure across sites. Figures are attributed to their source, not promised.
$4.88M
Average cost of a data breach — the exposure behind branch security and compliance, per IBM.
99.99%
Uptime target that leaves under an hour of downtime a year — the standard a branch network should hold.
$0
Cost to you — FreeTEM is funded by the suppliers you choose, not by your institution.
Your actual results depend on your branches, systems, and current rates — which is exactly what a free, compliance-aware audit determines.
Industry figures: IBM Cost of a Data Breach (2024).