What is "Quality of Service?" QoS stands for Quality of Service, aka, the ability to prioritize what’s happening on your business network. This means that you can ensure mission-critical uses like VoIP and video calls take priority over things like streaming services....
Great internet is taken for granted, and it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that connecting won't be an issue. But the reality is that there are many underlying complexities to connectivity and a reliable connection isn't always certain. One area to...
Summary: Business: Property Management Location: HQ in Kamloops BC, with properties across BC & Alberta Challenge: A large number of remote staff that require access to databases and equipment/sites that need to be monitored. Solution: L2 Connectivity with Fibre...
IPv4 vs IPv6: A Little History The first major internet protocol invented, IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) defines IP addresses in a 32-bit format. It remains the main configuration for delivering information between devices via the internet and has been in use...
Simply put, network visibility is the awareness and control of applications, data, and users on a WAN or LAN network. Network Visibility is crucial to your organization, we’re talking main power to the hyperdrive critical. Here are 5 benefits to network control.
Businesses are increasingly adopting SD-WAN for its ability to simplify network management, improve application performance, reduce costs, and increase agility. SD-WAN – Software-Defined Wide Area Network – can be used to enhance your business infrastructure, whether...
Managed Routers provide a lot of benefits as organizations become more complex. As demands on your network services increase, maintaining end-to-end service can be a challenge – and reliable connectivity becomes more and more critical. Equipment costs for routers and...
In a nutshell, attenuation is the loss of transmission signal strength measured in decibels (dB). As attenuation increases, the more distorted and unintelligible the transmission (e.g. a phone call or email you’re trying to send) becomes.
You know that feeling when you’re late for a meeting and conveniently there’s a huge traffic jam on your regular route? Think of your “late for a meeting self” as data being transferred over the internet and the highway/side roads as the routers trying to deliver you to your destination.
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs) have a key difference. When choosing what option is best for your company, it’s integral you know what service you’re getting without a veil of smoke and mirrors in the way.