Network outages cost businesses millions of dollars every year. Even a 99.9% uptime guarantee from a carrier equates to nearly 9 hours of expected downtime a year. Most businesses will suffer significant damage from that level of downtime in the form of lost sales, lost productivity, lost customers, fines, damage to reputation, and more. How… Read more »
Read More4 Types of Bandwidth: Advantages and Disadvantages
Today’s business networks are digital, complex and distributed. They demand more bandwidth than analog minds of decades past imagined. In this article, we’ll look at services offered along with bandwidth ranges, advantages and disadvantages.
Read MoreWhat Are Bandwidth, Latency and Throughput, and What Is Right for Your Business?
Bandwidth, latency and throughput describe characteristics of telecommunication and data communication links. When comparing offerings from telecom companies and Internet service providers vying for your business, it’s important to understand the relationship between these characteristics, so you get the right solutions for your business’ needs. Bandwidth is a measure of how much data over time… Read more »
Read More4 Key Takeaways About SD-WAN
Ecessa CEO Mike Siegler shares observations from two recent industry events, along with four key takeaways about SD-WAN technology, and what it is best suited for.
Read MoreBenefits of Virtual Tunnel Interface – VTI – It’s Not Your Grandfather’s VPN
Ecessa’s network engineers not only stay on top of developments in technology, they help lead them. VTI is one such breakthrough. Data security is in the crosshairs of most IT departments. As organizations move secure applications and sensitive data to the cloud, they need secure connections between their locations and the cloud application. Virtual Private… Read more »
Read MoreDigital Technologies are Transforming Healthcare With EHR
Every aspect of the healthcare field is impacted by technology – from the explosion of mobile platforms to increasingly complex Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs). EHRs are a business-critical advance in technology for the healthcare industry and have led to remarkable successes in medical treatments and how daily care is delivered and monitored. Thanks to a greater and more… Read more »
Read MoreThe State of the Industry
Welcome to the New Year! As the new CEO of Ecessa I wanted to introduce myself. I joined Ecessa in 2014 serving as Vice President of Development and Support where I focused much of my time on software development and feature innovation. Subsequently, I became Chief Technology Officer, expanding on that technical role and helping… Read more »
Read MoreStrengthen Your Business with Network Resiliency
Resiliency is the ability to recover quickly and spring back. Today’s networks demand resiliency because downtime can be catastrophic to any business. Now is the time to review the resiliency of your network to ensure you have plans in place to prevent outages and bounce back after any unforeseen challenges. In fast-paced, constantly connected environments,… Read more »
Read MoreSD-WAN: this summer’s hot tech topic
“Software-defined Wide Area Networking is red hot. It is safe to assume that, going forward, every multi-location business will rely on SD-WAN for a cost effective, high-quality, unified network solution” – Network World Everyone and their CTO is talking about SD-WAN as the hot solution for wide area networking. From cutting-edge tech publications, to those… Read more »
Read MoreAdding Up the Costs of Downtime
Outages happen. On a micro-scale, accidents, natural disasters, construction mishaps, infrastructure failures, security attacks and human errors occur everyday, resulting in ISP and network interruptions all over the world. On a macro-scale, the Internet is aging rather ungracefully, all while growing at an unprecedented rate. In the next 5 years, 1 in 5 small businesses… Read more »
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