The response and urgency with which we all had to react to COVID-19 came on quickly. Suddenly, we found ourselves having to ramp up an offsite workforce, testing company productivity, IT teams and infrastructure. While some had remote employees or work from home policies, a completely remote workforce and IT infrastructure operating out of office was not a fully baked plan for most.
According to Gartner, internet downtime can cost businesses an average of $5,600 per minute – which is an astonishing $300,000 per hour. For any business, especially SMBs, a loss that substantial can be devastating and have a major impact on overall revenue. It is important that businesses, no matter what the size, take measures to minimize the effects of internet outages and downtime. The simplest and most cost-effective solution is backup internet.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have probably heard that 5G is expected to be a game-changer to the business world, bringing with it significant advantages to organizations large and small.
Enabling IP networks to run on top of layer 2 connections, Ethernet is the most widely installed LAN and WAN technology. It is a less expensive and more powerful alternative to traditional connectivity solutions that require T1s and OCXs, with the ability to reach speeds up to 10 Gbps.
With the price in fiber having dropped over the past few years, businesses across the country, small and large are thinking about upgrading. Let’s take a look at the Coax and Fiber landscape, improvements in technology, build outs and serviceability to see if it makes sense to upgrade your customers.
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he rise of IoT, emerging technologies, and the increased demand for edge computing has presented new security and data center challenges. As such, conversations about network architecture have taken on a different shape as of late.
A recent analysis from Maverick Research found that 80% of CIOs estimate that more than half of their business will be conducted on cloud infrastructure by 2020, and roughly the same number predicted applications supported by a SaaS platform will support more than half of their business transactions.
Although the cloud can provide incredible value to organizations by providing cost-effective services and applications, multi and hybrid cloud environments create various network configurations for access and deployment.
Hosted VoIP is a solution where a carrier owns and manages all telephony networking equipment and enables you to make calls over a broadband internet connection. It’s a more cost-effective, multi-functional, and flexible alternative to an analog phone line.
