“(Companies) are allowing their current technology to drive their IT strategy instead of letting their long-term business strategy drive their technology decisions.” Ted Carty, VP Business Development, Grade A An old telecom friend of mine, @Ted Carty, of Grade A,...
Buzzword alert – are you ready? Digital Transformation. Doesn’t ring a bell? Not surprised. About 7 in 10 organizations are developing or have developed a digital transformation strategy, which means, conversely, 30% of organizations have not. The laggards have either...
We’re high-tech Plumbers and we’re proud of it! We are under no illusions about our place in the Canadian Telecom universe at FlexNetworks. We are next-generation plumbers. That’s it, that’s all. But instead of water through copper pipes, we push light through strands...
Why should my business upgrade from cable (coax) Internet to Fibre Optic Internet? I’ve heard variations of this question many times over my career. And my initial response is usually the same: you more than likely don’t. If your business only requires basic download...
“FlexNetworks is excited to play a part in the Connect to Innovate program and help transform the lives of thousands of Canadians and businesses. Partnering with the Government of Canada will enable us to build a fibre-optic network that will give Saskatchewan...
From our viewpoint we’ve found that the three biggest issues related to poor connectivity in the workplace are: Staff productivity reduced by a slow network, Real-time applications negatively impacted by unreliable and instable consumer-grade services with...
A little Telecom 101 today. I’ve been asked this question a few times recently, and like most telecom-lifers, I’ve made the mistake of assuming everyone knows: Dark Fibre is a strand of fibre optic cable that has been installed between two locations but is not...
SD-WAN (SDWAN), or Software-Defined Wide Area Networking, is technology applied to Wide Area Network (WAN) connections that connect enterprise networks over large geographic distances. It moves network control into the cloud using software, simplifying the management...
Like me, you were probably vaguely aware of a debate taking place in the U.S. on something called Net Neutrality. I knew it had something to do with keeping the Internet an ‘open’ place; meaning no government or corporation could control it, regulate it or operate it....
Think about this for a second: when was the last time you picked up a landline telephone somewhere in Canada and didn’t get a dial-tone? I can recall maybe one or two times in the distant past when I got a ‘fast-busy’ signal instead of the tell-tale drone of...
