Yearly Archives: 2014

WiFi is better than Chocolate According to Light-Reading

SMEs are constantly looking for ways to draw more customers, increase sales per customer visit, generate growth and expand customer satisfaction. All of these can be succesfuly achieved by offering free WiFi to customers. A recent LightReading article based on a new Comcast
Business survey reaffirms that WiFi is an essential tool for SMEs for keeping their customers happy. It proven to be more effective than free candy, water, community bulletin boards, or magazines as agreed by more than 85% of entrepreneurs and small business IT decision makers that have responded to the Comcast survey.
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Australia Comes To Grips With The Need For Copper And The Myth of Fiber-Centric Builds

Australia is one of those countries where regulators heavily lobbied by the fiber industry initially bought into the myth of the viability of “fiber everywhere,” making fiber the central focus of the country’s initial National Broadband Network (NBN) plans. Being the world’s largest government subsidized broadband project, the NGN is truly a “bellweather” worth watching. They have since learned a very valuable lesson that can be beneficial to operators and governments around the world.

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Carrier Ethernet to the Small and Medium Business Brief

N x 10 Mbps Ethernet services are in great demand with small and medium business (SMB) customers, but getting enough bandwidth to the buildings where they are located can be difficult. Actelis gives service providers a high performance, reliable solution to reaching SMBs with Carrier Ethernet services that can scale into the 100s of Mbps – at a more attractive cost and faster time to market than fiber, and with greater transmission efficiency and fewer pairs than competing copper solutions. (more…)

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Carrier Ethernet for Small and Medium Business Whitepaper

Millions of small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally are demanding reliable, high speed Ethernet services for access to the Internet and a growing suite of Cloud services, but are limited because they're off the fiber footprint.  Fortunately, Actelis Networks offers a comprehensive solution for service providers looking to provide up to 100 Mbps+ bandwidth to the SMB building, and cash in on the access and value added service revenue opportunities that follow, by leveraging Ethernet over bonded copper. (more…)

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