SD-WAN: A Lifeline for Healthcare Providers

For most businesses, network downtime, or losing connection to email and offsite applications or backup, is a financial and operational concern. In the healthcare industry, though, network downtime is much more serious. An unplanned network outage, after all, can negatively impact patients’ health and wellbeing—resulting in a disaster for individuals, healthcare providers, and service providers … Read more

How SD-WAN is Connecting Multi-Site Law Firms

Digital transformation is sweeping across every industry, transforming organizations of all types. As a result, the demand for secure, real-time communications, rapid response support, and constant uptime is increasing steadily. Even companies that have historically been paper-based are being challenged to operate with maximum speed and efficiency. Most law firms are aware of the need … Read more

How SD-WAN Helps the Retail Industry

Retail is changing as more and more connected devices and applications are making their way into brick and mortar environments. This trend will intensify in the coming years with the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and low-code rapid application development. There’s a lot to be excited about in this new era of retail. … Read more

SD-WAN: A Backbone for IoT Deployments

For the better part of the last decade, two technologies have been receiving a great deal of attention: Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN), and the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT and SD-WAN have evolved together, starting as nascent technologies and growing into global phenomena. According to Quadrant, SD-WAN is currently growing at a compound annual growth … Read more

SD-WAN: We Do It Better

SD-WAN has completely changed how businesses connect to branch offices and to the Internet. It’s also changed how service providers deliver their network and managed service offers. By decoupling networks from their underlying hardware, service providers can use SD-WAN to virtualize networks and offer connectivity in a way that is flexible, cost-effective, and reliable. SD-WAN … Read more

Best Practices for Evaluating an SD-WAN Platform

At this point, your organization has decided to move forward with software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). As a service provider, SD-WAN will enable your company to provide reliable and consistent connectivity, and boost profits. Now that you’re in the late stages of the buying process, though, you need to move very carefully. The service that … Read more

Deliver VoIP with the Quality and Reliability your Customers Demand using SD-WAN

Hosted PBX, Contact Center, VoIP and SIP trunk providers often rely on Internet connections to provide service to their customers. As Internet bandwidth and reliability increase, these connections are often reliable. But we all know that they’re not rock solid. Degraded connections due to spikes in jitter or packet loss can cause a voice call … Read more

Weatherproof Your Service Provider Business

Peak Storm Season is Around The Corner We’ve just turned into August, which means we’re in the thick of one of the most dangerous times of the year for inclement weather. For example, meteorologists are currently tracking multiple weather events. A tropical disturbance is developing in the central Atlantic, while in East Pacific, Hurricane Erick … Read more