ITU-T Y.1564 is an essential tool used by carriers to increase their differentiation by offering higher service assurance and cost effective
SLA validation. Implementation of Y.1564 within an Ethernet Access Device (EAD) enables generating and analyzing traffic to validate that
internal or customer-facing KPI performance metrics such as throughput, frame loss, latency, and frame delay are continually being met.
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 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.
Get high capacity, high-performance, reliable backhaul for DSLAMs with Actelis EFM over Copper. Actelis enables quick, flexible, and cost effective deployment allowing carriers to reach remote locations as well as expand and extend services from existing locations providing high-end bandwidth services. (more…)
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…)
Small and Medium business (SMEs) may have been considered by some service operators as being less important customers than larger companies in the past. But these smaller customers are not only extremely important to the economy (SMEs account for 58% of the EU’s economic output, for instance), they are also becoming increasingly important consumers of broadband services. (more…)
