Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Everything EVERY Business Should Know About Network Connectivity And SDWAN

In the current world of Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, and the new normal of work from home/work from anywhere .... network connectivity and Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SDWAN) have emerged as the critical pieces enabling successful implementation of IoT, edge computing, and unified communications applications enterprise wide. Rather than jumping in blindly, here's everything EVERY business should know first.

THE EVOLUTION OF ACCESS

We live in an ever-increasing world; IoT devices are making the need for bandwidth and cloud computing on the edge. Today we will talk about the network itself and cloud connectivity. The network is the foundation of everything that is done. Everything that we access in the cloud has to get there through the internet. Internet access is the key, the foundation to the entire model.  SD-WAN is the “shock-absorbing” layer that sits in between the raw network and the cloud where applications live. At the very top of the pyramid is where you have your applications such as UCaaS and CCaaS; this is what allows clouds to talk to one another. Finally, the entire pyramid is your security layer, which is what protects the entire structure.

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There are different principal and ancillary components when it comes to internet access, these include:

Principle Components

Ancillary Components

  • Auto-Failover
  • WiFi Hotspots
  • Cloud Connect

Cable and Best-Effort Fiber are the two main methods of getting to the cloud at a very cheap rate. Cable itself started a long time ago, at the beginning all the bandwidth was dedicated to the TV signal, but thanks to the innovation of turning TV signals into IP, an enormous amount of bandwidth has been freed up. Today while the price per meg keeps deteriorating, the amount of bandwidth that the cable companies can provide is skyrocketing thanks to DOCSIS 3.1, changing the way businesses use the cloud.

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Just because there is a lot of throughput on a coax line, it doesn’t mean all the packets arrive quickly, nor does it mean that all the packets will arrive at all. It’s still an over-subscribed, best-effort, non-SLA service. Applications like voice and video are incredibly sensitive to latency and packet loss and always will be.

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SD-WAN provides the opportunity to clean up packet loss and latency. SD-WAN uses redundancy and error-correction to restore packets that could be lost, and it finds quicker paths to the cloud (like WAZE) when it needs to. There is no static routing cable “telling” the router what to do – it’s making decisions on its own to protect the outcome, which is near 100% data transmission with minimal latency.

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PROVIDERS FREEDOMFIRE COMMUNICATIONS WORKS WITH

So, what cable providers does FreedomFire Communications work with?

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When you are talking about cable, make sure you don’t sleep on the add-ons. You must make sure that you aren’t just talking about bandwidth. A lot of providers have some extremely innovative products.

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The FreedomFire Communications best-effort providers include:

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FreedomFire Communications has also excelled in the dedicated fiber provider area. If you want to find out if there’s a dedicated fiber provider in your area, you can always just ask FreedomFire Communications. We have patented tools which shows us what is where and offered by whom.

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We also work with international dedicated fiber providers:

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Wireless Internet Access providers include:

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SD-WAN PROVIDERS

When it comes to SD-WAN, FreedomFire Communications works with multiple providers.

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So, what are the key drivers of an SD-WAN design?

  1. Cost – How does the customer get the speed and reliability without overpaying?
  2. Management Complexity – Customer’s ability to self-manage a network
  3. Functionality – What abilities does the overlay (AKA, aggregate) network need to have?
  4. Quality – Are there any applications that are sensitive to delay, packet loss, and jitter?
  5. Security – If the customer is securing the WAN at the edge, do they want to do it with a standard edge firewall appliance, or do they want to simplify down into one SD-WAN box?
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To learn more about all your options for network connectivity and SDWAN, including free assistance with network design and security, simply ask us at FreedomFire Communications

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

What Will 5G Mean To Manufacturing?


 What will 5G mean to manufacturing?

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Overpriced private networks never getting off the ground, or a viable alternative to Wi-Fi?
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: "𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 5𝐺 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙-𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠, ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 3𝐺𝑃𝑃 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 5𝐺. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠. 𝐼𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑝𝑢𝑡, 5𝐺 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒"
𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀:
✔ Low Latency
✔ Extended Coverage & More Devices
✔ Increased Security
✔ Consistent Service Level
✔ Customizable Network
𝗢𝗸, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘇𝘇𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻.
𝗜𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱:
🎯 A (to-be) existing infrastructure for manufactures to tap into
🎯 Lower cost to connect to data sources and share information
🎯 No change to your control networks - they'll probably stay hardwired
🎯 Fiber level quality without the physical connections in place
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲:
❌ Manufactures will decide they want a private 5G network which requires a high capital barrier to entry. Not to mention the skillset needed to maintain these networks.
❌ It's unclear how it will perform within electrically noisy environments.
What are your thoughts??
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

The Future Of 5G (VIDEO)

In this video from the Cyber Heroes Adventure Show Keith Fuentes, VP Customer Success Team, Samsung Electronics; Scott Schober, CEO, Berkeley Varitronics Systems; & Peter Elliott, President, Telecom Insurance Group unpack the challenges and opportunities regarding the 5G rollout!

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

What Are The Elements Of A Successful 5G Rollout For Business? (VIDEO)

In this video Shira Rubinoff, President and Founder of Prime Tech Partners, discusses the elements of a successful 5G roll-out for businesses with Jason Inskeep, Director of the 5G Center Of Excellence.  The discussion covers how businesses are rolling out 5G, what the level of sophistication is right now, and how businesses can strategically continue the rollout.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

What Should Business Executives Think About Before Investing In 5G Technology? (VIDEO)

What are some of the considerations business executives need to think about before making an investment in #5G technology?

Watch this video of Avroheim Gottheil from Ask The CEO as he discusses implementing 5G with Inma Rodriguez of Ericsson. Inma Rodriguez is the VP of 5G Core, and Cloud Solution and Service Line for Ericsson’s Europe and Latin America markets.

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Thursday, September 15, 2022

How To Configure Wireless LAN's (VIDEO)

In this lab for day 58 of Jeremy's IT Lab free CCNA 200-31 complete course, you will learn how to configure wireless LANs on a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Fundamentals Of Wireless LAN Configuration (VIDEO)

In Day 58 of this free CCNA 200-301 complete course, you will learn about the fundamentals of wireless LAN configuration using a cisco Wireless LAN Controller.

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Thursday, September 08, 2022

The Fundamentals Of Wireless Security (VIDEO)



In Day 57 of this free CCNA 200-301 complete course, you will learn about the fundamentals of wireless security, such as authentication, encryption, and integrity.

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Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Fundamentals Of Wireless Architectures (VIDEO)

In Day 56 of this free CCNA 200-301 complete course, you will learn about the fundamentals of wireless architectures, including autonomous, lightweight, and cloud-based APs.

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