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
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
We can all probably agree that SD-WAN is a much-abused term. It seems to mean anything that a vendor wants it to mean. Gartner has defined a category of “WAN Edge” which includes “a widening set of network functions, including secure routers, firewalls, SD-WAN, WAN path control and WAN optimization, along with traditional routing functionality.”[1] … Read more
If you’re an internet or managed service provider, maintaining operational stability is arguably your most important objective. After all, your business—and your reputation—depend on your ability to provide strong and reliable service. Unfortunately, many service providers struggle with network downtime. While you might expect the frequency of network outages to be reducing year over year, … Read more
Here’s the situation: As an Internet or Managed Service Provider, your network is facing countless risks that threaten its operational stability. After all, your network is a complicated entity with thousands of endpoints and links. Downtime can stem from many different causes. It can arise from something as simple as a configuration error, which we … Read more
As a service provider, your business has no shortage of options for establishing WAN connectivity. Perhaps your company is using a public internet connection, along with a virtual private network (VPN). Or, maybe your company is using an Ethernet or MPLS connection. Your business may even be operating in a rural area, and using fixed … Read more
Here’s a question for you: What’s the most important business driver for a multi-site restaurant chain? The answer has nothing to do with food, equipment or even personnel. Hands-down, the most important element is connectivity. Think about it. In today’s ultra-connected world, a multi-site restaurant could not last 10 minutes without connectivity. When the network … Read more
Cloud applications are now being used across all areas of the enterprise, from billing to marketing to sales to customer support, and everything in between. In a recent study from IDG, it was revealed that 77 percent of enterprises now store at least one application or a portion of their enterprise computing infrastructure in the … Read more
Questions from our Inbox #3: Most Common Technical Support FAQs In the final edition of our three part Questions from our inbox Blog Series, we’ll go over the most frequently asked questions that our support team gets asked. 1. Can I brand Turnium’s SD-WAN as my own product? A: Yes. Turnium is fully white label … Read more
Welcome to the second edition of our 3 part blog series on our most Frequently asked questions. Below are some of the questions we’ve been asked relating to SD-WAN setup/deployment. I am a VoIP provider. I want to provide my customer with good voice quality but I don’t want any of the other customer data … Read more