IoT-Enabled Asset Tracking Is Driving Business Innovation

Knowing the location and monitoring the health of your most valuable assets is critical to business operations. Thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) technology, remote tracking of everything from heavy equipment to fleets to luggage, patients, pets and kids can reduce risk, minimize inventory, save money and create new revenue streams for businesses, in addition to making life easier for consumers.

IoT-enabled asset tracking is playing a greater role in the modern economy than ever before. A recent study found that an estimated $1.9 trillion of economic value could be created by the use of IoT devices and asset tracking solutions in the global supply chain and logistics sector. But in order to compete for a piece of this emerging, profitable market, you’ll need to know which IoT technology will benefit your asset tracking application and how to build a system that works seamlessly within your existing business model. By building a flexible, customized tracking system, you can reap the benefits of asset tracking without having to make significant changes to your business, saving you both time and money. A number of industries have adopted IoT-enabled asset tracking already, paving the way for the creation of new business opportunities and more efficient operations. 

Industries That Rely on IoT-enabled Asset TrackingIoT-enabled asset tracking can benefit more than just fleet managers or tracking-focused products. The following industries have had immense success and are continually innovating and adding new applications: 

• Travel: Luggage tracking 
• Agriculture/Conservation: Livestock and wildlife tracking 
• Consumer: Pet tracking, Child communication and tracking, bicycle location
• The “Sharing Economy”: Scooter and car sharing
• Vehicle Fleet Management 
• Industrial asset tracking
• Supply chain efficiency (from parcel, pallet, crate, to container tracking)

Each of these industries uses tracking solutions differently, but they all have something in common: they use wireless technology to get reliable data that they can use to provide valuable services related to the asset’s supply, or asset’s usage. By customizing their tracking solutions to meet the unique needs of their customers and their industries, these businesses can leverage more competitive advantages because they have all the data that they need to make intelligent—and fast—decisions. IoT-enabled asset tracking can be used broadly to engage new customers and improve business operations. 

Creating New Business Opportunities 
Today’s customers expect reliable, efficient tracking features for nearly all their connected devices, even those that serve another purpose. For instance, a child’s walkie-talkie will be more appealing to parents if the device includes an embedded GNSS tracker that tells parents where their children are located. Likewise for a dog collar that can perform heath checks and pin-point a beloved pet’s location if he goes missing. 

Using the latest cellular modules and Smart SIM cards, it’s easy to include worldwide connectivity as an add-on to an existing device, enabling new business models based on usage and not anymore based on ownership. A rail wagon equipped with a tracker can be sold as a service (lease on distance and time basis). Standard Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies make cellular connectivity ideal for these types of solutions because they can deliver the key 3C’s  (low Cost, broad Coverage and low power Consumption). Even if your business isn’t centered around tracking technology, you can still use it to improve your product. A bicycle manufacturer might embed a small tracking module into the frame of the bike that customers can use to locate it if it’s stolen. By offering these tracking options to your customers, your product stands out against the competition.

Improving Business Operations
Beyond attracting more customers, IoT-enabled asset tracking can also improve the way your business works on a daily basis. Here are just a few benefits to IoT tracking that could save you time and allow your business to operate more smoothly: 

Cost Reduction: You can embed trackers into your products or shipping containers to avoid losing shipments, minimize inventory and invoice accurately for Demurrage & Detention. If an item is lost or stolen, you can immediately see where it’s located, allowing you to recover it. This saves replacement costs and time spent tracking the items down by phone or in-person. 

Faster Response Times: You can set up notifications for major events and respond to them quickly. For instance, a tracking device would notify you that one of the vehicles in your fleet hasn’t reached its destination on time, allowing you to immediately contact the driver and the intended recipient to work out a solution. You can even monitor whether your assets are used properly and take appropriate action if needed. 

Streamlined Operations: IoT-enabled asset tracking allows you to manage thousands of assets around the world from just one location. You can also reroute vehicle fleets, recall defective products or replenish new supplies to customers on the fly. And last but not least, you can plan maintenance when needed: no need to plan maintenance on a wagon, if you are aware that the wagon has not been used over a long distance.

More Detailed Data: How often do your customers use a certain feature on your device? Is the solar panel on your outdoor light working properly? How much time did it take to get your product to your distributor? Normally, these statistics would be difficult to track, but when you use IoT-enabled asset tracking, you can do so automatically. Insight into data like this could help you find areas where you can cut costs or improve your product. 

Building Your Tracking System 
IoT-enabled tracking will have a positive impact on your business operations, but designing an effective solution doesn’t have to be a challenge. 

Your solution can be customized to your needs. A local farmer might need reliable connectivity in rural areas for his livestock’s tracking collars, whereas a luggage tracking company needs global connectivity to track their devices anywhere in the world. That’s why it’s important to have the power to pick and choose the right technology that you need for your tracking system and use products that are purpose-built for the IoT. The components of your solution should include: 

Embedded Wireless Modules with integrated GNSS: Connect an existing device by adding a wireless module or gateway. 

Smart SIMs: Embed a SIM card into the tracking device to ensure you have resilient global connectivity and superior data service quality everywhere your tracking device goes. 

AirVantage® Platform: Build and deploy complete IoT tracking solutions. Connect all your devices to the cloud to keep your service running, manage your data and track locations, delivering an amazing, always-on user experience to your customers.

Hopefully You Attended the Expert Panel Webinar, "How IoT Enables the Tracking of Assets" on October 5th, 2017 to learn more.

To learn more about how IoT-enabled asset tracking from Sierra Wireless will benefit your business....and what the best solutions are for your industry to integrate tracking technology seamlessly into your existing business model. ....simply ask us at the following link.  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

IoT Network Management 

by Benoit Tournier, Director of Marketing, Transportation, Sierra Wireless

Your IoT Applications Need The Right Managed Connectivity Solution

When companies partner with Sierra Wireless, they’re able to move past the confusion and complexity of deploying IoT applications and effectively tap into new revenue streams, new services and new business models, enabling more choices for customers and additional value for businesses.

Bring your innovations to market faster and at a lower cost. Sierra Wireless provides a fully integrated solution comprised of embedded solutions, gateway solutions and cloud and connectivity services that empowers organizations.

SIERRA WIRELESS MANAGED CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS

Sierra Wireless offers the broadest array of services to connect to the mobile network, manage devices and power IoT services. Their AirVantage® IoT platform combined with their unique ability to provide an end-to-end IoT platform that integrates with our eUICC-based Smart SIM and connectivity service provide all of the IoT infrastructure to create, deploy and manage IoT solutions. 

Their eUICC solution is one of the first to market that conforms to the latest GSMA specification, ensuring global interoperability across hardware vendors, SIM vendors and operators. eUICC is a game-changer for cellular IoT connectivity, because it allows customers to select and change service provider profiles over the air based on the criteria or business rules of their choosing—without physically accessing the SIM card.

Your connectivity deserves:

• The most ubiquitous wireless coverage throughout North America
• Managed connectivity for mission critical applications on a temporary, permanent or backup basis
• High speed connectivity for locations beyond the reach of cable, DSL and other wires

Solutions To Accelerate, Streamline, And Manage Your IoT Services

                    AirVantage IoT Platform

AirVantage is a cloud-based IoT platform that uniquely provides all of the services you need to create, deploy and manage wireless IoT solutions. It provides all of the building blocks including wireless connectivity management, wireless device management and application enablement services for you to connect your machines to the mobile network, and to build innovative solutions.

Smart SIMs And Connectivity

IoT deployments are fundamentally different than roaming smartphones, so why continue to use SIMs and connectivity services that leave your service disconnected with expensive resolution costs?

Learn how the multi-operator Sierra Wireless Smart SIM and Connectivity Service can deliver a superior connectivity service for your IoT application.

Managed Connectivity Solutions

Enterprises requiring mission critical connectivity choose our fully managed connectivity solution to keep their businesses connected and IoT devices online 24/7.

Our managed connectivity solution bundles the best hardware, multi-operator connectivity and a 99.9% uptime and performance SLA guarantee into a single monthly service. Standardized deployments, continuous monitoring, and 24/7 live support enable distributed enterprises to focus on their customer experience not their IoT infrastructure.

SECURITY

AirVantage protects your data from the connected devices to the cloud. 

 Secure device-to-cloud communication

AirVantage is the first commercial IoT platform to have implemented the Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol. This standard protocol offers a secure solution by allowing the encryption of data end-to-end between the device in the field and and the application hosted in the network. 

The IoT platform also secures data in transit with additional measures including mutual authentication, secure download and device-initiated communication to prevent unauthorized control or access from an external source. For applications with sensitive data, users can add an optional VPN tunnel to extend their private operator network security to AirVantage.

 Security in the Cloud

To protect data at rest, Sierra Wireless has assigned a dedicated team to continuously monitor our data storage operation. Our storage infrastructure is highly available in each region, and is constantly upgraded to guarantee optimum security. 

 Secure cloud-to-enterprise communication

To protect data in transit on the server side, AirVantage applies HTTPS secure browser access only. All software attempting to access data in AirVantage will have to be authenticated using the secure OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol, using one of the 3 authentication flows proposed. Account administrator can review and revoke the API clients any time on the AirVantage operations console, and keep the account access control up-to-date.

To tighten the user access control, account administrators can enable the security options any time including the 2-factor authentication with a one-time SMS password and IP address filtering.

To learn more about all the options available to you for managing your IoT deployment, applications, and network from Sierra Wireless...simply ask us at the following link.  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

IoT Network Management 

How The Cloud Could Have Saved The Day

Having worked off-and-on as a network administrator for the past 15+ years, I am often reminded of just what a life-saver the cloud and managed services can be. This past weekend, I happened to step into a situation where ignoring these benefits led to a complete nightmare for one "unlucky" customer.

I was called-in as a favor on what basically turned out to be a disaster recovery operation. The disaster did not come in the way of a flood, fire or earthquake though. It came in the form of a rogue IT employee who basically took down his employer's entire telecommunications network upon his sudden, forced exit from the company. 

To protect the innocent, I will not get into too many details about the customer, other than state the fact that it was an (otherwise) fairly modern medical office that depended upon a single employee to handle it servers, network connectivity, hardware, software, back-ups and phone service. What could possibly go wrong?

Hardware, software and telecom services were spread out all over the place. No standardization of operating systems, no network redundancy, pretty much no firewall to speak of, no way to monitor or shape network utilization, a mix of analog phone lines from one company and a VoIP service used for other lines from a different company, a wi-fi network that had access to HIPAA sensitive files, unencrypted and incomplete data backups stored on servers overseas and sky-high expenses on everything including software, telecom hardware, broadband service and external hosting providers. To complicate matters, the IT director had been summarily dismissed before the employer managed to shut off his remote access or recover any of the numerous administrative passwords.

To put it mildly, this customer is in deep trouble. It will take many weeks and thousands of dollars to unravel the enormous problems that a single employee has been allowed to cause. That brings me to the actual point of this article, which is what could have been done to prevent such a nightmare. This is where the real benefits of the cloud and managed services begin to seep in. The below are a list of measures that could have been taken to avoid such an ugly and costly incident. The next time you are consulting a customer on the benefits of moving their business to the cloud and a managed service provider, you may want to keep this story and list in mind.

1. A cloud-based phone system operated by a managed service provider could have assured the customer of continued communications without having to pull the plug on their entire network. A managed firewall and monitored network could easily allow access to vital services while blocking unauthorized access from the outside.
2. Consolidating services with a single provider would have dramatically lessened the time needed to get in touch with a number of different providers to reset passwords, revoke account access and redirect phone calls.
3. A managed broadband circuit with monitoring would have ensured that the customer was subscribed to an adequate amount of bandwidth and perhaps even saved them some money. It definitely would have improved the quality of their VoIP calls, which were previously said to be an issue. As it was, all traffic was basically treated the same and the customer had no idea if they were paying for too much or too little service.
4. Integrated Software as a Service could have done away with a multitude of licensing and hardware issues that were found, provided superior customer support and protected the customer from security issues caused by obsolete operating systems and office software. It would also have lessened the impact of losing passwords known only to a single administrator.
5. The cloud could have provided complete, encrypted backups of sensitive customer data with greater privacy and perhaps even at a lower cost.
6. Outsourced IT management quite possibly would have prevented a single employee from obtaining such a stranglehold on this customer's operations by carefully screening prospective employees and implementing policies that would allow them to easily be replaced without downtime or concern of security breaches.
7. Using a knowledgeable agent or cloud broker could have saved this customer thousands of dollars by consolidating lines, preparing competitive quotes from a number of different carriers and coordinating efforts between vendors. An experienced agent would have also recommended a suitable back-up plan in the event that the customer's primary carrier suffered a service disruption.
8. Many carriers and vendors have divisions that specialize in helping customers comply with HIPAA regulations, thus protecting their patient's privacy, steering clear of legal problems and safeguarding their licenses. Using one of these providers may have saved them from many headaches that could still result from this incident.
9. Physical security of the customer's building was also compromised as a direct result, as the employee evidently had a door key and passcode for the alarm system. Cloud providers and managed service providers neither want nor need this level of access. In addition to cost of addressing IT issues, the customer also had to employ an armed guard, locksmith, private investigator and paid for a field call from their alarm company. Again, none of this would have been necessary if the customer had relied upon the cloud, a broker and a managed service provider.
10. Although the customer had a mix of both traditional analog lines and VoIP service (albeit from different providers), neither were integrated with the other to provide any sort of redundancy. Thus, they still had a working lines for faxes, a credit card terminal and alarm system, but they were otherwise unable to make or receive calls until a new firewall was installed and network connectivity was restored. Obviously, bundling of services with a single, integrated provider or adding vendor-recommended hardware to their system could have prevented their blackout of phone service to a large degree.

Unfortunately, this was an "accident" that never had to happen. While the human factor can never be 100% accounted for, using the appropriate technology for the job could have saved this customer an enormous amount of time, money, legal headaches and perhaps even loss of reputation.

When you consider that taking full advantage of the cloud and managed services would have most likely been less expensive for the customer to begin with, you have to wonder why agents and cloud brokers aren't in even higher demand than they are now.

William Van Hefner

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Cloud Services

Wireless Point Of Sale Systems Are The Untethered Future Of Retail Technology

There’s no such thing as a brick-and-mortar store anymore. Or, rather, no store can be only brick-and-mortar. Connected technology is now a key part of the retail experience, whether you’re a boutique gift store or a multinational consumer products manufacturer. Connectivity saves money, gives you better control of inventory, and—by arming employees with more data—improves and humanizes the customer experience. But stores implementing wireless solutions also need a guaranteed connection, as any outage can quickly spiral into financial disaster. 

When retail stores have network downtime, the cost can average $4700 a minute. And even occasional slowdowns can add up, resulting in tens of thousands of dollars of lost revenue per year. With 33% of retail businesses reporting monthly slowdowns and downtime, this is no small matter.

These retailers need more than great primary providers. They need strong backups to ensure that core-function systems like point of sale (POS) trackers continue to stay online. Especially for retail chains scaling up—spread over wide regions and dependent on seamless logistics between warehouse and store—powerful connectivity can be a life-saver. 

With a 99.9%-uptime guaranteed service level agreement (SLA), Sierra Wireless provides this connectivity to some of the United States’ largest retailers, helping transform companies that are trying to keep up with a quickly changing retail market. 

Point of Sale Systems and the Need for Connectivity

Companies with operations spread across many regions have complicated logistics in order to link manufacturing and distribution centers with retail storefronts. Inventory has to be shipped in a way that guarantees stores always have what they need but aren’t sitting on a surplus of goods. And when a customer orders a product that has to be shipped, any location must be able to follow through and deliver it in a timely manner.

Modern Point of Sales (POS) systems can manage sales, inventory, and delivery. The problem, of course, is that the system relies on connectivity and is vulnerable to downtime. When a company’s whole business model is based around data-driven customer service and connected logistics, loss of connectivity is more than an inconvenience. It undercuts the foundations of the business itself. And terrestrial data systems can be unreliable. If there is a cut fiber, a short, or any issue with the cables (even in a redundant ecosystem), the entire network can go down.

Wireless Backup and the Virtue of Redundancy in Retail

Retail stores need a data backup plan that maintains connectivity no matter what—and a service level agreement to guarantee it. Sierra Wireless is the only company to offer a 99.9% SLA, thanks to its patented Maestro smart antenna system . 

By adapting to each store’s unique RF environment, Sierra Wireless’ system is able to provide the fastest data rates, highest availability, and lowest latency across fixed 3G and 4G cellular broadband networks, in whatever area the store happens to be in. Whether a suburban strip mall or a standalone exurban big box, every location has transmission challenges. Sierra Wireless’ technology can seamlessly adjust to all of them. 

A wireless backup plan means that stores not only avoid downtime but—by using a metered rate—they pay only for usage. It’s peace of mind without breaking the bank. 

Wireless Data as a Primary System

Of course, there are a number of reasons to rely on a wireless, rate-based system for primary use. It can be a valuable tool for retail stores during initial construction—before all the cables are laid and while systems are being tested. And the system flexibility also makes it ideal for other aspects of a changing retail market. 

Take the pop-up store trend: even a temporary location will need connectivity. It still has to be plugged into the main warehousing and inventory network. But using the possibly unreliable network that comes with a temporary location means stores could be significantly less productive during their short lifespans. Having a flexible wireless system that is rate-based, easy to install, and available only for the days or weeks that you need it enables a much smoother operation.

By adapting to varying challenges in the RF environment, wireless systems can also be a good option for retailers in airport storefronts, carts at outdoor fests, kiosks in crowded malls, food trucks, or other traditionally difficult locations.

Wireless Connectivity Creates the Human Touch in a Changing Retail Market

Sixty malls across the US are on the brink of closing. Macy’s is shuttering forty stores. Meanwhile, online retail grossed nearly $400 billion in 2016. 

Connectivity is key to competition. Stores have to be more personal, friendlier, and offer a better experience than consumers can find online. Websites like Amazon algorithmically understand what people want to buy, but brick-and-mortar stores can do the same—and do it with a warm, human touch. 

Seamless backup allows retailers to embrace technology without worrying about what will happen if that technology fails, paving the way for innovations like:

• Easy employee access to data. Imagine if every worker on the floor had a reliable tablet that allowed them to answer any customer question instantly. The only improvement would be a system that pulled up the customer’s existing preferences so that the employee could personalize the interaction. And that might soon be possible with…
• App-based loyalty and location programs. When a customer walks into a store, their phone can use app-based push notifications to alert them to relevant sales based on purchase history. But the app can also be connected to the cloud, giving employees access to this data so that they can learn about a customer’s preferences and shopping habits before approaching them.
• Analytics. What did the customer buy? What did they look at? Where did they stop? These same apps can generate customer data by using purchasing patterns and individual and aggregate heat maps. This data can then be used to improve your store’s layout—and your customers’ overall shopping experience. 

Whether a retailer is scaling up and building new locations across the world, necessitating POS logistics that maximize profit, or competing with online retailers in niche markets, they need consistent connectivity. The changing face of retail and the pressures of online competition demand speed and flexibility, and any downtime is a lost opportunity. 

At Sierra Wireless, our primary, backup, and temporary services are helping retail stores compete in this challenging new environment. To learn more about how our innovative solutions can help your business stay connected....simply ask us at the following link.  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Retail Network Management 

by SierraWireless

Retail Technology Is Fast Evolving Toward Unified Commerce...If You Aren't You Might As Well Close Your Doors

For retailers who are not well into their transformation to a ubiquitous, real-time retail customer journey, the key to survival is to redouble their efforts before the competition puts them out of business. The phrase "retail apocalypse" is real...and in order for YOUR company not to fall victim you need to heed the advise in this article.  To survive and thrive, retail chains MUST embrace merging cloud, IT, and marketing to improve profitability.  

Retail technology has experienced an explosion in new capabilities that bring unlimited opportunities. Think back 20 years and retail IT was much less complex from a shear volume of applications and technology options. Today, retail IT must deal with many new factors and issues: social, mobile, cloud, and big data. Oh and by the way, manage all this information and platforms in a secure environment!

Watch these videos to understand more....

The key to managing this complex IT environment is to develop a strategic plan and technology roadmap and then execute according to the plan. Here are a few of the key issues that your strategic plan should address:

What are your business requirements today and how will then change in the next 5-10 years to accommodate changing needs and growth?

• How do you integrate disparate systems into a single, unified commerce platform?
• For new applications should you buy or build?
• What aspects of IT should be outsourced?
• What systems should you move to the cloud?
• How do you quickly adapt to the new mobile paradigm?
• How do you prioritize all the company’s IT projects?

These are often difficult decisions that have a significant impact on the company’s operational effectiveness, financial success and the customer experience. The challenge is to make the right choices and trade-offs that will position the company for success.

Blending the physical and digital worlds into a unified omni-channel plan for IT, POS, and CRM will enable your company to better grow and prosper in the new paradigm of technology driven retail.  With a technology driven unified commerce strategy you will be better able to deliver a personalized, seamless experience wherever, whenever and however your customer shops.

Retailers today often struggle with leveraging technology to create the retail experience of the future, including the shift to cloud-based solutions, the rapid rise of mobile, increasing bandwidth requirements and the prevalence of legacy systems.  Customers expect a consistent, personalized and satisfying shopping experience wherever, whenever and however they shop and retailers need a robust, fast, reliable, resilient network infrastructure to enable this real-time retail experience.  Delivering on that experience requires a different approach that sets the stage for unified commerce.

For help navigating your journey to becoming a "Future Store" and leading member of the unified commerce movement...all you need to do is ask at the following link.  It's as easy as1, 2, 3.

Unified Commerce Solutions

The Store Of The Future, Is Now....The Marriage Of Sales, Marketing, & Technology Is No Longer Fantasy

For help with sourcing the providers you'll need to partner with....in order to incorporate the technologies shared in the videos below into your retail business and create a smart store....simply click on the following link and ask. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Converged Solutions For IT, Sales, And Marketing

Check out the Store of the Future, an immersive retail experience that combines the high-touch benefits of brick-and-mortar with the high-tech features of online shopping.

This store of the future will blow your mind. How do we know? Because you touched the magic mirror in Rebecca Minkoff's fashion-and-tech forward store, and left a trail of valuable data.

Watch This SDWAN Video Demo To Learn How SDWAN Can Benefit YOUR Business

Ever wonder how SD-WAN works? See in real-time what happens when you pull the plug on your internet and have SD-WAN (software defined wide area network) maintain a hosted UC call uninterrupted.

In a nutshell, SD-WAN ensures that business customers have the fastest, most resilient business data connections at the lowest prices for all of their prioritized business applications.

This video shows how the failure of one internet connection does not mean the failure of an application (a voice phone call in the video) because the SD-WAN technology routes the network application (the phone call) around the network outage without the phone call dropping.

More robustly programmed SD-WAN appliances and networks do the same for all you applications.

Dozens of SD-WAN appliances are available through hundreds of VARs (value added resellers), MSPs (managed service providers) and network service providers.

To learn more about what the best options are to meet your SDWAN needs....including which SD-WAN appliance or carrier is right for your business....simply ask us at the link below. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

SDWAN Solutions

How Do You Know What The RIGHT Business Internet Solution Is....FOR YOU

It goes without saying that businesses today, small and large, need to have a reliable and rock-solid Internet connection to enable them to do business effectively. Choosing the wrong business Internet service provider will do your business more harm than good, and can cost you customers that you can never get back. Even a small business today cannnot afford to try to make DSL or cable suffice; while the price may be attractive, the service from DSL or cable is more often than not exactly what you pay for — cheap, and is that the message that you want to get across to your customers? Your customers are going to think that if you cheap-out on your business Internet service, that you will also cheap-out on the quality of the products and services that you are offering. You need to understand that with DSL and cable, the only way they can achieve the price points they quote is because those circuits are designed to be over-subscribed to the hilt, and if your DSL or cable is not over-subscribed today, you can bet that your provider is trying to over-subscribe it, because they offer NO guarantees for DSL or cable servivce. A smaller business can usually get by with the reliability offered by T1 or bonded T1, but if Ethernet services are offered in your area, it is definitely something that you should look at closely and consider, as it can be an extremely cost effective solution.

Keep in mind that the Ethernet services being offered here are Carrier Ethernet offerings. The term “ethernet” is tossed about by DSL and cable providers but that is not true Ethernet. The services offered here are Carrier Ethernet offerings, meaning that the service is a dedicated service offered by the actual carrier, not a shared service being resold on someone else’s network.

When it comes time to choose and make the tough choices for your business, there will undoubtedly be lots of different options available. This is especially true when talking about telecommunications, where the market is full of things that look good on the surface. You could go with T1, Ethernet, DSL, cable, or something else. With all of these things staring your business in the face, you have to consider the costs and the weigh the benefits of each choice. This choice is one that shouldn’t really be a contest, though. Business Ethernet offers many advantages over the other choices out on the market.

WHAT IS SD-WAN?

SD-WAN is one of the newest technologies to come out and the efficiency and cost efectiveness of it is becoming clear to companies worldwide. SD-WAN is a revolutionary process for improving operational efficiency when accessing mission critical applications that need to always be available.  SD-WAN connects the end-users at a site to cloud services and/or colo centers and data centers by employing the use of inexpensive broadband links. This reduces costs for redundancy, failover, and load balancing and still allows a great deal of flexibility in deployment.

NOW PROVIDING INTERNATIONAL CIRCUITS, INCLUDING MPLS AND SD-WAN

Providing international circuits used to be a cost and pricing nightmare but with the latest technology, we are changing that.  We can now provide various types of international circuits virtually anywhere in the world. That can include international Ethernet, or for those foreign offices where you need to share data frequently, international MPLS may be the key for you.  And combining SD-WAN with your international circuits can provide even greater cost effective productivity in a robust and flexible telecom solution.

Contact us today and talk with one of our telecom experts to find out the real cost of Business Ethernet services or other dedicated high speed Internet offerings for your business, and how that can improve your bottom line.

To learn more about what the best options are to meet your network needs....simply ask us at the link below. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Network Solutions 

Can Your Company Compete Globally...Or Are You Getting Your Butt Kicked???

Providing international circuits used to be a cost and pricing nightmare but with the latest technology, we are changing that. We can now provide various types of international circuits virtually anywhere in the world. That can include international Ethernet, or for those foreign offices where you need to share data frequently, international MPLS may be the key for you. And combining SD-WAN with your international circuits can provide even greater cost effective productivity in a robust and flexible telecom solution.

To learn more about what the best options are to meet your global network needs....simply ask us at the link below. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Global Network Solutions 

We'll be your IT superpower....and help you crush your competition.