On January 22, 2018, FrontierUS and Peplink hosted the first North American Partner Summit in San Antonio, Texas. The event was an opportunity for Peplink resellers from Canada, Mexico, and the United States to meet and discuss future technology with Peplink Engineers and staff.
As of May 2017, More than 50% of US households no longer have a wired landline phone. They rely on cellular phones only. Although the percentage is smaller, a significant number of business also have no landlines and use only cell phones. Many technicians, field reps, sales staff, and other personnel in large businesses have only a cell phone for voice communication. Some of these workers exclusively use a cellular connection for personal or business data communications as well. And yet, cell connections are not always reliable.
Last week, on Amazon, I bought a toothbrush kit for my dog Bissell. I bought it from home using a Galaxy Tab S2. Now, one week later, everywhere I go, on any device, I see ads for dog toothbrushes, even at work on my Windows PC. While I personally brush my teeth a few times a day, brushing beagle teeth is a twice a week proposition at best. I am not sure how many toothbrushes most dogs need, but I’m pretty sure one will cover us for a while. My dark side tempts me to click on some of those ads so the vendors serving them up will have to pay for their foolishness, but being petty takes time that I don’t want to waste.
Hot-desking gets a bad rap. It was an experimental concept to reduce office space requirements that has been losing favor because it hurts morale, can cause social tension, and is arguably un-hygienic. In hot-desking, employees don’t have a single personal space. Employees check into vacant workstations with a login. Upon Login, their personal, virtual desks are immediately available. When their shifts end they log out and a new person uses the same space. If you know the origin of the term, you’ll understand the downside. The term hot-desking comes from the practice of hot-bunking on submarines. Because space is tight on a sub, up to three sailors can share the same bunk. When their shifts end they get into bunks that other sailors have just vacated, and the beds are still warm. Eeeewwww.
This is part two of last week’s post, “Is it time for SD-WAN?”
Replacing a hard-wired MPLS network with SD-WAN makes sense for the added security and cost savings alone, but it can also provide increased performance and easier management. Peplink is an innovator and leader in SD-WAN technology, and makes building your SD-WAN straightforward and inexpensive.
For a long time the technology business was a closed society. Behind the scenes, IT administrators kept rooms full of servers and switches running. Everyone else did their jobs, oblivious to IT until something broke. From that era, IT professionals became accustomed to speaking in a code of acronyms and shorthand known only to those inside the fold. The language was not specifically designed to keep outsiders away. Rather, it was a language developed out of both expediency and familiarity.
