The "Why" Behind WiFi: How Deploying WiFi is Good for Business

WiFi capability is everywhere. Built into practically every laptop, tablet and smartphone, it offers a convenient, inexpensive way to stay connected and productive from any location from a small coffee shop to a large airport.

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Broadband Technologies: How They Compare

The differences between DSL and cable run far deeper than pedigree. For businesses deciding between the two, the following breakdown of key attributes may prove informative.

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DSL vs. Cable High-speed Internet

For today’s businesses, fast Internet access is more than a competitive advantage. It is an operational necessity. Changes in the way companies are working – and the tools they are using – have created the need for high-speed connections to services and individuals off site.

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The Boston Celtics Move Up to Championship-Level Collaboration

The Boston Celtics are one of professional basketball’s most storied franchises and have won 17 league championships. However, collaborating and communicating between the practice facility and administrative headquarters proved to be a challenge that needed to be addressed.

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K-12 schools need faster bandwidth to keep pace with digital learning

It’s no secret that most K-12 schools in the United States have high-speed data networks that connect districtwide. In fact, some forward-thinking districts have advanced their connectivity to both state and federal educational systems.

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Boston’s JP Licks Serves up WiFi Access Along With Homemade Ice Cream and Coffee

Creating a positive, friendly atmosphere has always been at the core of JP Licks’ corporate culture, and with wait times on the rise, the ice cream parlor decided to offer free WiFi to provide a reason for patrons to stick around.

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What big data can do for your business

Mostly unnoticed until recently, big data is now on the radar of almost all small and medium-sized companies (SMBs). It’s catching their attention because it offers a cost-effective way to mine every single bit of data they collect on a daily basis.

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Voice Mail: Does Your Business Really Need It?

Love it or hate it, it’s hard to discount the effect that voice mail has had on businesses. It’s helped to improve business communications by letting people leave lengthy, secure and detailed messages that are easily understood.

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Patient Portals: Expanding Care and Support

Patient portals – secure online websites that give patients convenient, 24-hour access to personal health information from anywhere over an Internet connection – are a fast-growing trend.

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Telesurgery: Extending Surgeons’ Reach

Telemedicine leverages modern communications technologies to enable physicians to conduct examinations from a distance, bringing the expertise of trained personnel and specialists to patients to locations beyond their physical location.

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Data Mobility has Promise, but what are the Challenges?

As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt mobile technologies, they face real challenges related to security, connectivity, and scalability. The addition of mobile devices to an organization’s technology infrastructure means increased vulnerabilities.

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Consumer Wearables: Creating a New Class of Health Data

Mobile technology is being leveraged to help improve the way healthcare is administered and to help patients take charge of their wellness.

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Healthcare Informatics: Improving Healthcare and Decision Support

Electronic health records (EHRs) enable medical staff and healthcare professionals to reduce the number of medical errors and increase patient safety.

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EHRs and PACS: Health Records Go Digital

Healthcare providers are under constant pressure to improve care while making operations more efficient and cost-effective. Today’s strained healthcare system presents a variety of challenges for healthcare providers.

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Consolidated Trunking – Is It Right for Your Company?

Finding the telephony solution that best fits your business is beneficial, as it allows your company to be more cost effective, efficient, and reliable. There’s a lot to contemplate when choosing the solution that tailors to your business needs.

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Bandwidth trends: Why speed is important today, tomorrow and beyond

The need for faster network speeds (referred to as “bandwidth”) has been growing so quickly that these speeds are now doubling every three years – a staggering statistic we see with our own business customers.

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Mobile Technology: Changing the Way Care is Administered

From anywhere/anytime access to care and closer, more customized provider/patient relationships, to better time management, there are many examples of ways in which mobile technology has changed how healthcare is administered.

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Government Network Painpoints

Secure, high-speed networks may offer many benefits to modern IT environments in the public sector, but there’s a flipside to the rising status of networks: Managers and technology practitioners find themselves in an ongoing struggle to keep up with bandwidth and reliability demands while simultaneously addressing budget realities.

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Cheers Boston Keeps Network Performance and Cost Savings Flowing

Cheers Boston, a local watering hole made famous as the inspiration for the television show, “Cheers,” strives to keep its customers happy with free WiFi and fast service. After experiencing connectivity issues, they had to act fast to get their customers and staff back online.

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Why Don’t You Have a Back-Up Plan for Your Phone Service Yet?

What happened to your business the last time the power went out? Maybe it was a hurricane or an ice storm. Maybe a car accident took down the power lines. Or maybe a utility contractor mistakenly cut the lines. Whatever the reason, a business with no power means a business in trouble.

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Enabling Better Patient Care through Mobility

While we were at this year’s HIMSS conference, we spoke to a number of healthcare IT professionals at six leading healthcare providers to get their insights on how advancements in data mobility can engage the entire healthcare ecosystem and help improve patient outcomes.

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Top 5 Ways Ministries Extend Their Reach Using Ethernet

According to Grey Matter Research, more than 17 million non-churchgoers visited church websites in the past year. “Churches are natural places of interaction,” said Scott McConnell, LifeWay Research Director.

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West Palm Beach Hotel Keeps Guests Coming Back

With 112 rooms serving a mix of business and pleasure travelers, Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham West Palm Beach caters to its guests with the comforts of home and the amenities of an office. Many of their guests stay for extended periods of time and reliable phone service, Internet connection, and cable TV are of the utmost importance for providing an enjoyable stay.

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A Plan for Voice Success

In business, all true success stories start with a vision and a plan. Identifying your business goals and objectives and the strategies you’ll use to achieve them is a must-take first step for any organization and a crucial element to ensuring future success.

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