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Startups also benefit from Fiber telecom service in Miami, as it allows them to enjoy smooth and fast internet speed. It makes it easy to download heavy files during ongoing HD-quality video calls to colleagues or customers. With its assistance, you can post a video presentation on the company website, while your colleagues simultaneously send high-resolution photos and texts for the new company brochure to the designer.
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History Of QUADRANET
QuadraNet was originally formed in 2001 as a telecommunications provider in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. As our client base grew, we adapted to the evolving industries and expanded our service offerings over time to encompass a larger variety of Internet-based products and services.
We eventually grew to become a full-service data center provider, providing colocation, dedicated servers, cluster management, and complex hosting solutions. Over the past decade, with the assistance of very talented individuals, QuadraNet has grown to become one of the largest providers in Los Angeles, California for dedicated servers, colocation, cloud hosting, and bandwidth.
As of 2004, QuadraNet operates space in the LA Telecom Center building, located in downtown Los Angeles. The building is directly adjacent to the One Wilshire building at 624 South Grand.
One Wilshire is dubbed “The World’s most connected data center building” due to its large concentration of fiber from various backbones and internet peers. QuadraNet has a private collection of over 400 fiber strands entering the One Wilshire Meet-Me-Room to our private cage.
As we have grown, we have had to expand our data center footprints and have found that building out individual data centers as we expand has proven to be to our advantage as we are able to segregate facilities from one another to provide redundancy, resiliency, and performance. With evolving cyber security threats and an increasingly complex regulatory environment, a greater emphasis is being placed on the relationships companies build with their chosen IT providers.
Compliance
QuadraNet is fully PCI compliant. Beyond ensuring critical data and systems are protected physically, IT solutions that are backed by the proper policies and procedures, including guidelines for practices such as employee training, media handling, sanitization, and encryption, are becoming key for compliance.
Our NOC (Network Operations Center) is staffed 24/7 by on-site industry professionals with years of IT experience. We adhere to stringent policies when provisioning and working on server hardware and data center equipment, guaranteeing you the highest level of service possible.
Geographically Diverse Data Center Locations
At QuadraNet we have had to expand our data center footprints and have found that building out individual data centers as we expand has proven to be to our advantage as we are able to segregate facilities from one another to provide redundancy, resiliency, and performance.
QuadraNet is now available in Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago and the most recent New Jersey. In addition Virtual POP - Network Facilities are located in New York, Virginia, Missouri, Arizona and Amsterdam.
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Our History
QuadraNet was originally formed in 2001 as a telecommunications provider in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. As our client base grew, we adapted to the evolving industries and expanded our service offerings over time to encompass a larger variety of Internet-based products and services.
We eventually grew to become a full-service data center provider, providing colocation, dedicated servers, cluster management, and complex hosting solutions. Over the past decade, with the assistance of very talented individuals, QuadraNet has grown to become one of the largest providers in Los Angeles, California for dedicated servers, colocation, cloud hosting, and bandwidth.
As of 2004, QuadraNet operates space in the LA Telecom Center building, located in downtown Los Angeles. The building is directly adjacent to the One Wilshire building at 624 South Grand.
One Wilshire is dubbed “The World’s most connected data center building” due to its large concentration of fiber from various backbones and internet peers. QuadraNet has a private collection of over 400 fiber strands entering the One Wilshire Meet-Me-Room to our private cage.
As we have grown, we have had to expand our data center footprints and have found that building out individual data centers as we expand has proven to be to our advantage as we are able to segregate facilities from one another to provide redundancy, resiliency, and performance. With evolving cyber security threats and an increasingly complex regulatory environment, a greater emphasis is being placed on the relationships companies build with their chosen IT providers.
Compliance
QuadraNet is fully PCI compliant. Beyond ensuring critical data and systems are protected physically, IT solutions that are backed by the proper policies and procedures, including guidelines for practices such as employee training, media handling, sanitization, and encryption, are becoming key for compliance.
Our NOC (Network Operations Center) is staffed 24/7 by on-site industry professionals with years of IT experience. We adhere to stringent policies when provisioning and working on server hardware and data center equipment, guaranteeing you the highest level of service possible.
Geographically Diverse Datacenter Locations
At QuadraNet we have had to expand our data center footprints and have found that building out individual data centers as we expand has proven to be to our advantage as we are able to segregate facilities from one another to provide redundancy, resiliency, and performance.
QuadraNet is now available in Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago and the most recent New Jersey. In addition Virtual POP - Network Facilities are located in New York, Virginia, Missouri, Arizona and Amsterdam.
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The Heavy Focus on 5G Wireless Means We Are Ignoring 68 Million Americans Facing High-Speed Cable Monopolies
All across the country right now, major wireless Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are talking to legislators, mayors, regulators, and the press about the potential of 5G wireless services as if they will cure all of the problems Americans face right now in the high-speed access market. But the cold hard reality is the newest advancements in wireless services will probably do very little about the high-speed monopolies that a majority of this country faces. According to a ground-breaking study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, more than 68 million Americans facing high-speed cable monopolies today.
This is why we see wild claims about how 5G will do things like solve rural America’s lack of access to broadband or that wireless broadband will be just as good as any wireline service (it won’t). In reality, we are already woefully behind South Korea and many countries in the EU. In essence, 5G is being aggressively marketed in policy circles because it provides a useful distraction from the fundamental fact that the United States market is missing out on 21st century broadband access, affordable prices, and extraordinary advancements coming from fiber to the home (FTTH) networks. Rather than aggressively wire the country for the future, major competitors to cable companies are opting for 5G because it will cost about half as much as FTTH to deploy and allows them to avoid directly competing with cable. In effect, they are splitting the market with each other and hope policymakers do not notice.
It Is a Real Problem That Major Wireless ISPs Are Avoiding Direct Competition With Gigabit Cable Systems
To date, major ISPs poised to compete with cable companies like Comcast and Charter have billions of dollars (including additional billions after Congress cut the corporate tax rates) but have chosen not to widely deploy FTTH networks that vastly outperform current cable systems. The fact is they have made it clear they do not want to spend the money to build FTTH (Verizon stopped eight years ago now whereas AT&T's limited fiber build is mandated as a merger condition). This is not because these networks are unaffordable. In fact, nearly half of the new FTTH networks being deployed today are done by small ISPs (which the FCC might stifle next year on behalf of AT&T and Verizon) and local governments, which have limited budgets.
If the corporations with the most resources are unwilling to challenge cable monopolies, it means we have a failure in competition policy and consumers will pay substantially more than they should for high-speed Internet access. When we look at the parts of the country that have multiple options for high-speed services, we see symmetrical (i.e. the download and upload speeds are equal) gigabit services selling from a range of $40 a month to $80 a month. It is worth noting that in the absence of protections against “redlining,” the practice of only selling broadband access to wealthy neighborhoods, many times these areas already tend to be at the top of the economic ladder. However, in the markets that now have gigabit cable services but no FTTH competitor, the price for broadband jumps dramatically for no reason other than a lack of choice.
So whether you live in a big city like Miami, Florida (where you pay $139.95 a month), or smaller cities like Manchester, New Hampshire ($104.95 a month), or Imperial, Pennsylvania ($104.95 a month), the story is the same. In my own backyard, I would have to pay close to quadruple ($159.95) the competitive price for gigabit service because of my cable monopoly, while my coworkers at EFF living in San Francisco are paying $40 for a superior service.
Fiber Services Vastly Outpace Wireless Services in Terms of Capacity and Future Potential, Including 5G
There is no real comparison between the proven Internet access speeds provided to users through a FTTH connection and what potentially may arrive through 5G wireless in some unknown distant future. Seven years ago, a single strand of optical fiber was able to transmit 100 terabits of information per second, which is enough to deliver three months of HD video per second. Three years ago, an ISP launched 10 gigabit speeds in the United States because it already had a FTTH deployment to leverage (and upgrading FTTH is cheap). 5G systems are just about to enter the market, but nothing has been shown to demonstrate it competes with gigabit cable networks.
Current estimates for 5G wireless services are showing that the median user experience is somewhere between 490 Mbps up to 1.4 gigabits per second and the upward trajectory for wireless speeds are limited by a lot of different factors including some that are outside the control of the technology itself. Things like interference from other signals, physical obstructions (they are dependent on line of sight), multi-year government spectrum allocations, and the shortening range of towers for ultra high speeds (estimated around 1000 feet per tower) all serve as limitations on wireless potential.
Fiber optic lines, however, have a clear path forward to increasing their capacity as the electronics themselves become more advanced. Recent innovations in increasing the number of signals that could be pushed through the glass pipe have meant increases in capacity are decoupled from environmental or government restraints that exist for wireless. For example, time and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network technology has literally meant previously existing fiber optic deployments will be upgraded without a single new wire being replaced and is yielding at least ten times the capacity.
5G Has Not Reinvented the Economics of ISPs and the Challenges Rural America Presents to Connectivity
The basic formula for how ISPs monetize their network is a fairly straightforward balance between revenues and expenses, as well as one-time sunk investments associated with upgrades and laying the network (usually handled through some financing vehicle repaid over time). Revenues come from the monthly subscriptions people pay for things like telephone service, television, and broadband. Their expenses come from the maintenance cost of the network including employees repairing the system and customer service. The larger the network becomes, the greater the expense to maintain it, the more customers they need to sustain profits.
It is these factors that make rural broadband so challenging. Rural areas by their very nature are more spread out with fewer potential customers (this is why we see a rise in rural coops where people build their own ISP that isn’t solely focused on profits). The US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (which provides loans for building telecom services) defines rural as areas where the local community population is less than 20,000 and that it is not closely adjacent to an urbanized area of 50,000 or more people. The US Census Bureau defines rural America as areas where no more than 1,000 people per square mile reside.
When you take the economics of an ISP and map it over rural America, you quickly see that they have fewer revenue sources and higher expenses than a more densely populated urban area. You will need a lot of extra 5G towers to cover the territory while dealing with geographic barriers such as forests or mountains that will physically interfere with the wireless transmission. In fact, what is ironic is you need a significant deployment of fiber to make rural 5G where one should question why not just go all the way to FTTH. When the Senate Commerce Committee recently held its field hearing in South Dakota, a witness explained that Sioux Falls coverage will require 350 towers for 74 square miles but given that the rest of the state has an average density of 11 people per square mile, it is unrealistic to pin their hopes that 5G wireless will present a revolutionary solution.
The solution to rural America’s problem, in the end, is the same solution we adopted for electricity, water, and the roads. We start treating access to the service in the same way we look at essential infrastructure rather than a private luxury. We adopt policies that promote fiber’s construction and return to the Telecom Act’s fundamental goal, which was to ensure all Americans had universal affordable access to communications services no matter where you live.
The Sooner Policymakers Catch on That We Have a Monopoly Problem, the Sooner We Can Break the Monopoly with Competition
5G wireless is important for mobility, but its only one piece of the broadband future and should be treated as such. New innovations to wireless technology such as “network slicing” along with ways to address autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things are valuable, but it should be recognized that will be separate from broadband access competition in the high-speed market.
We should be asking our elected officials and regulators what are they doing to help bring high-speed competition and get approximately 68 million people out of their cable monopoly. To date, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has largely ignored this problem claiming that its complete abdication of authority over the ISP market will solve it for us (and we are seeing how that is going right now). Or worse yet, that monopolies are ok because potential competition is as good as actual competition. But with each passing month consumers are paying too much for their service, or simply have no service at all, and the United States Internet will continue to languish behind its international competitors.
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C&W NETWORKS RECOGNIZED AS BEST CARRIER IN LATIN AMERICA
C&W NETWORKS RECOGNIZED AS BEST CARRIER IN LATIN AMERICA
Company also awarded Best Strategic Acquisition in the region
MIAMI, FL – November 13, 2017 – C&W Networks, a division of C&W Communications (C&W) and a Liberty Global company (LiLAC Group), which owns and operates the largest state-of-the-art subsea multi-ring fibre-optic in the Caribbean and Latin America won two significant awards on October 25 at the 13th Global Carrier Awards in London. A four-time consecutive past winner of Best Caribbean Carrier Award, C&W won the new and expanded award of Best Latin American Wholesale Carrier and took top billing as Best Strategic Acquisition.
A jury comprising of telecoms analysts, industry experts and the senior editorial team of Capacity Media recognized C&W Networks as best wholesale carrier in Latin America from a selection of major international players.
“We are honored to receive these two significant awards this year,” said Paul Scott, President of C&W LATAM and Wholesale. “Being recognized as Best Latin American Wholesale Carrier is a testament of the best in class network that we operate and affirms our unwavering commitment to our customers across the Caribbean and Latin America. We are also especially pleased to be recognized as Best Strategic Acquisition as this further demonstrates our commitment to facilitate growth in the region.”
C&W Networks operates the most technologically advanced and extensive broadband network in the Caribbean and Latin America, serving 250 global, regional and international carriers, TV cable companies, Internet Service Providers and Network Integrators. The company’s infrastructure has been consistently recognized as ‘Best in Class’ and includes more than 50,000 kilometers and 60 sub-sea cable stations, combined with extensive terrestrial fiber across the region with a fully meshed MPLS overlay fabric. With multiple Network Operation Centers, the Company provides single-point, end-to-end, 24/7/365, multilingual, direct contact communications across the region.
The Global Carrier Awards are considered among the most prestigious in the wholesale telecoms industry. The awards celebrate innovation, excellence and vision and setting the benchmark for performance throughout the marketplace. This year’s submissions attracted a record number of over 225 entries.
For more information on the Global Carrier Awards 2017 please visit http://www.capacitymedia.com/Global-Carrier-Awards.
#Best Latin American Wholesale Carrier#Best Strategic Acquisition#C&W Communications#C&W NETWORKS#Global Carrier Awards#Liberty Global company
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Cuba Sees Explosion in Internet Access as Ties With US Grow
AP, Jan. 14, 2017
HAVANA--Two days before Christmas, Luis Gonzalez received a little Chinese modem from Cuba’s state-owned telecommunications company.
The 55-year-old theater producer connected the device to his phone and his laptop computer, which instantly lit up with a service unimaginable in the Cuba of just a few years ago--relatively fast home internet.
“It’s really easy to sit and find whatever you need,” Gonzalez said as he sat in his living room updating his Facebook account, listening to Uruguayan radio online and checking an arriving tourist’s landing time for a neighbor who rents rooms in their building in historic Old Havana. “Most Cubans aren’t used to this convenience.”
Home internet came to Cuba last month in a limited pilot program that’s part of the most dramatic change in daily life here since the declaration of detente with the United States on Dec. 17, 2014.
While Cuba remains one of the world’s least internet-connected societies, ordinary citizens’ access to the internet has exploded over the last two years. Since the summer of 2015, the Cuban government has opened 240 public Wi-Fi spots in parks and on street corners across the country. Cubans were previously restricted to decrepit state internet clubs and hotels that charged $6-$8 for an hour of slow internet.
In a country with an average monthly salary of around $25, the price of an hour online has dropped to $1.50, still steep but now well within the range of many Cubans with private income or financial help from relatives abroad.
The government estimates that 100,000 Cubans connect to the internet daily. A new feature of urban life in Cuba is the sight of people sitting at all hours on street corners or park benches, their faces illuminated by the screen of smartphones connected by applications such as Facebook Messenger to relatives in Miami, Ecuador or other outposts of the Cuban diaspora. Connections are made mostly through access cards sold by the state monopoly and often resold on street corners for higher prices.
The spread of connectivity has remotely reunited families separated for years, even decades. It’s fueled the spread of Airbnb and other booking services that have funneled millions in business to private bed-and-breakfasts owners. And it’s exposed Cubans to a faster flow of news and cultural developments from the outside world--supplementing the widespread availability of media spread on memory drivers.
Cuban ingenuity has spread internet far beyond those public places: thousands of people grab the public signals through commercially available repeaters, imported illegally into Cuba and often sold for about $100--double the original price. Mounted on rooftops, the repeaters grab the public signals and create a form of home internet increasingly available in private rentals for tourists and cafes and restaurants for Cubans and visitors alike.
On the official front, Google and Cuba’s state-run telecoms monopoly Etecsa struck a deal last month to store Google content like YouTube video on servers inside Cuba, giving people on the island faster, smoother access.
While the explosion of internet in Cuba has taken place alongside the process of normalization started by Obama in 2014, it’s unclear how much better relations have speeded up Cuba’s move online.
Obama said in announcing detente that he welcomed “Cuba’s decision to provide more access to the Internet for its citizens,” but neither Obama’s team nor Cuban officials have detailed whether that decision was directly linked to negotiations to restore diplomatic ties and began negotiations.
What is clear is that Cuba began to dramatically increase access about six months later when the government began opening Wi-Fi spots around the country. For many Cubans, the start of home internet in December is potentially even more significant, breaking a longstanding barrier against private internet access in a country whose communist government remains deeply wary about information technology undermining its near-total control of media, political life and most of the economy.
The pace of change in Cuba often depends on the state of relations with its giant neighbor to the north: both tensions with the United States and leaps forward like Obama’s visit to Havana last year have prompted crackdowns by hardliners worried about the government losing control. While President-elect Donald Trump’s administration has promised to take a harder line on Cuba, both opponents of President Raul Castro’s government and those advocating closer relations favor more access to information for ordinary Cubans.
The home internet test program selected some 2,000 residents of Old Havana to receive free connections for two months before a planned expansion and the start of billing for the service. Gonzalez said he would be able to receive 30 hours of his 128 kilobyte-per-second connection for $15, with the price increasing for faster connections, with 30 hours of a 2 megabyte-per-second connection available for $115.
That’s far slower and wildly more expensive than internet in most of the rest of the world. In the Dominican Republic, for example, a full month of relatively slow 2 megabyte-per-second internet, a speed most people would consider reasonable for applications such as streaming video, costs a little more than $20.
Cuba depended on slow, expensive satellite internet until 2013, when it opened a fiber-optic cable to Venezuela that connected the island to the global online infrastructure.
Cuba says that its still-high internet prices are a result of costs imposed by the U.S. trade embargo on the island. Independent observers blame the costs on political decisions to limit access, and on the cash-strapped socialist government’s widespread use of its monopoly power to extract as much money as possible for goods and services considered luxuries. Many young people hope that the spread of access in recent years is the start of Cuba seeing internet more as a necessity and a right, like the free education and health care guaranteed by Cuba’s socialist system.
“In my dreams, I’d like for the internet to be seen like arts and culture, and, as such, to be free for the whole population, just like access to education has been for the last 50 years,” said David Vasquez, the 27-year-old director of the online magazine Cachivache Media. “It’s very hard to know what the future will bring.”
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Better Relations With U.S. Means Much Better Wi-Fi Across Cuba
People use a public wifi hotspot in Havana, Cuba. Home internet came to Cuba in December 2016, in a limited pilot program that’s part of the most dramatic change in daily life here since the declaration of detente with the United States on Dec. 17, 2014. Desmond Boylan / Associated Press
Skift Take: Tourists' experiences just got better in Cuba, too.
— Jason Clampet
Two days before Christmas, Luis Gonzalez received a little Chinese modem from Cuba’s state-owned telecommunications company.
The 55-year-old theater producer connected the device to his phone and his laptop computer, which instantly lit up with a service unimaginable in the Cuba of just a few years ago — relatively fast home internet.
“It’s really easy to sit and find whatever you need,” Gonzalez said as he sat in his living room updating his Facebook account, listening to Uruguayan radio online and checking an arriving tourist’s landing time for a neighbor who rents rooms in their building in historic Old Havana. “Most Cubans aren’t used to this convenience.”
Home internet came to Cuba last month in a limited pilot program that’s part of the most dramatic change in daily life here since the declaration of detente with the United States on Dec. 17, 2014.
While Cuba remains one of the world’s least internet-connected societies, ordinary citizens’ access to the internet has exploded over the last two years. Since the summer of 2015, the Cuban government has opened 240 public Wi-Fi spots in parks and on street corners across the country. Cubans were previously restricted to decrepit state internet clubs and hotels that charged $6-$8 for an hour of slow internet.
In a country with an average monthly salary of around $25, the price of an hour online has dropped to $1.50, still steep but now well within the range of many Cubans with private income or financial help from relatives abroad.
The government estimates that 100,000 Cubans connect to the internet daily. A new feature of urban life in Cuba is the sight of people sitting at all hours on street corners or park benches, their faces illuminated by the screen of smartphones connected by applications such as Facebook Messenger to relatives in Miami, Ecuador or other outposts of the Cuban diaspora. Connections are made mostly through access cards sold by the state monopoly and often resold on street corners for higher prices.
The spread of connectivity has remotely reunited families separated for years, even decades. It’s fueled the spread of Airbnb and other booking services that have funneled millions in business to private bed-and-breakfasts owners. And it’s exposed Cubans to a faster flow of news and cultural developments from the outside world — supplementing the widespread availability of media spread on memory drivers.
Cuban ingenuity has spread internet far beyond those public places: thousands of people grab the public signals through commercially available repeaters, imported illegally into Cuba and often sold for about $100 — double the original price. Mounted on rooftops, the repeaters grab the public signals and create a form of home internet increasingly available in private rentals for tourists and cafes and restaurants for Cubans and visitors alike.
On the official front, Google and Cuba’s state-run telecoms monopoly Etecsa struck a deal last month to store Google content like YouTube video on servers inside Cuba, giving people on the island faster, smoother access.
While the explosion of internet in Cuba has taken place alongside the process of normalization started by Obama in 2014, it’s unclear how much better relations have speeded up Cuba’s move online.
Obama said in announcing detente that he welcomed “Cuba’s decision to provide more access to the Internet for its citizens,” but neither Obama’s team nor Cuban officials have detailed whether that decision was directly linked to negotiations to restore diplomatic ties and began negotiations.
What is clear is that Cuba began to dramatically increase access about six months later when the government began opening Wi-Fi spots around the country. For many Cubans, the start of home internet in December is potentially even more significant, breaking a longstanding barrier against private internet access in a country whose communist government remains deeply wary about information technology undermining its near-total control of media, political life and most of the economy.
The pace of change in Cuba often depends on the state of relations with its giant neighbor to the north: both tensions with the United States and leaps forward like Obama’s visit to Havana last year have prompted crackdowns by hardliners worried about the government losing control. While President-elect Donald Trump’s administration has promised to take a harder line on Cuba, both opponents of President Raul Castro’s government and those advocating closer relations favor more access to information for ordinary Cubans.
The home internet test program selected some 2,000 residents of Old Havana to receive free connections for two months before a planned expansion and the start of billing for the service. Gonzalez said he would be able to receive 30 hours of his 128 kilobyte-per-second connection for $15, with the price increasing for faster connections, with 30 hours of a 2 megabyte-per-second connection available for $115.
That’s far slower and wildly more expensive than internet in most of the rest of the world. In the Dominican Republic, for example, a full month of relatively slow 2 megabyte-per-second internet, a speed most people would consider reasonable for applications such as streaming video, costs a little more than $20.
Cuba depended on slow, expensive satellite internet until 2013, when it opened a fiber-optic cable to Venezuela that connected the island to the global online infrastructure.
Cuba says that its still-high internet prices are a result of costs imposed by the U.S. trade embargo on the island. Independent observers blame the costs on political decisions to limit access, and on the cash-strapped socialist government’s widespread use of its monopoly power to extract as much money as possible for goods and services considered luxuries. Many young people hope that the spread of access in recent years is the start of Cuba seeing internet more as a necessity and a right, like the free education and health care guaranteed by Cuba’s socialist system.
“In my dreams, I’d like for the internet to be seen like arts and culture, and, as such, to be free for the whole population, just like access to education has been for the last 50 years,” said David Vasquez, the 27-year-old director of the online magazine Cachivache Media. “It’s very hard to know what the future will bring.”
Correspondent Michael Weissenstein contributed to this report.
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Top benefits of VoIP system for modern businesses
phone systems do allow for conferencing, when using them, there is a good chance that you would end up paying for an additional service and hosting multiple callers every time your business needs to conference. These features are typically native in case of a converged data network and the cost is built into the already lower price of the VoIP service that you are already paying for.Details of top companies offering Fiber telecom service in Miami can be found online.
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Top benefits of VoIP system for modern businesses
Modern businesses widely used new-age technologies and IT Services in Coral Gables. VoIP phone system is one such technology. It essentially is a cloud-based communications platform that allows you to easily make phone calls over the internet. Instead of having a physical phone system in your office, you can simply subscribe to a VoIP service, much like you would your broadband. The benefits of using Business VoIP Solution are many. Here are a few of the most prominent ones:
Lowers expenses: Every business aims to enjoy as much as cost savings as possible. One of the best ways to do so would be to use a VoIP system. In a traditional phone system, you can install limited phone lines and the costs associated with it can promptly add up, especially if your company makes regular long-distance calls. In case of VoIP systems, however, as communication data gets modified into data packets and sent over the IP network, the issue of a single phone line being able to be utilized by only two callers is easily eliminated. Traditional phone lines, moreover, usually charge for each minute of calls. On the other hand, with VoIP your only costs are the monthly charges from your ISP.
Facilitates flexible working: In the last few years, many businesses had to adopt a level of remote and flexible working. VoIP system made adapting to this flexible working style much simpler. But signing up for a dependable VoIP service, you and your team can enjoy the benefit of working from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection. As long as a stable internet connection is available, your team can easily make and receive calls, much like they would in the office. The suppliers, customers and other contacts would have a single business number for you, but where you take their call wouldn’t really matter. This flexibility ensures that your employees can easily switch between working in the office and home with ease without customers noticing a difference.
Simplified conferencing: As VoIP system does away with the need for dedicated phone lines, it makes conferencing much simpler. Even though many traditional phone systems do allow for conferencing, when using them, there is a good chance that you would end up paying for an additional service and hosting multiple callers every time your business needs to conference. These features are typically native in case of a converged data network and the cost is built into the already lower price of the VoIP service that you are already paying for.
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VoIP system: Provides high cost-effectiveness and scalability
As businesses grow, their communication needs evolve. VoIP system is highly scalable, and allows business to easily adjust their communication infrastructure to accommodate changes in size or structure. Adding new users, lines, or features can be done with minimal disruption when using VoIP. Detailed insight into VoIP and IT Services in Coral Gables can be found online.
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How can fiber telecom service and VoIP systems be advantageous for modern businesses
This internet can help in improving the communication capabilities of a company as it leverages Business VoIP Solution. Unlike traditional phone systems, VoIP leverages internet connectivity to transmit voice and data. It eliminates the need for expensive hardware and landlines, significantly reducing communication costs. Its subscription-based model allows for flexible pricing structures based on business needs. VoIP systems can easily scale with business growth.
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How can fiber telecom service and VoIP systems be advantageous for modern businesses
In the dynamic, contemporary business landscape, effective communication and robust connectivity are critical for long-term business success. Proper telecom and IT Services in Coral Gables is needed by discerning businesses to improve connectivity and productivity, and ultimately stay ahead in the competitive market.
The significance of high-speed, reliable internet connectivity cannot especially be overstated in today's business environment, making Fiber telecom service in Miami a necessity for many businesses. Fiber-optic internet provides significantly faster speeds compared to traditional broadband connections, facilitating seamless data transfer and reducing latency. Fiber connections are less susceptible to weather-related disruptions and signal interference, ensuring consistent and reliable connectivity critical for business operations. Moreover, ever-increasing data demands, availing fiber services can help accommodate the growing data needs of a business without compromising performance. This internet can help in improving the communication capabilities of a company as it leverages Business VoIP Solution. Unlike traditional phone systems, VoIP leverages internet connectivity to transmit voice and data. It eliminates the need for expensive hardware and landlines, significantly reducing communication costs. Its subscription-based model allows for flexible pricing structures based on business needs. VoIP systems can easily scale with business growth. Adding new lines or features is straightforward and can be done without complex installations. VoIP offers a range of advanced features such as call forwarding, voicemail-to-email transcription, video conferencing, and mobile integration, ultimately enhancing the overall communication capabilities of a company.
Use of both fiber telecom service and VoIP system is advantageous for modern businesses.
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C&W ANNOUNCES PARTIAL RESTORATION OF MOBILE NETWORK IN DOMINICA:
C&W ANNOUNCES PARTIAL RESTORATION OF
MOBILE NETWORK IN DOMINICA:
Dominicans at home and abroad re-connect for the first time since the passage
of Hurricane Maria
MIAMI, FL – September 21, 2017 – Caribbean telecoms leader Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) today announced that it has begun the successful restoration of mobile services to Dominica. The island’s infrastructure, including its communications networks, suffered significant impact from Category 5 Hurricane Maria, which made landfall in Dominica on Wednesday night. The Company also announced the extension of free credit to help mobile customers communicate with family and friends.
As the devastating winds of Hurricane Maria died down, there was little or no news coming from the island of Dominica to allay the fears of families and friends overseas. Today’s announcement by C&W on the partial restoration of its mobile network means for the first time many concerned families and friends will be able to check on their loved ones in Dominica.
John Reid, C&W’s CEO, said, “I’m hugely proud of our employees who have worked night and day to begin to bring our mobile network back online. While the situation on the ground in Dominica is grave, the passion of our employees to restore our mobile services enabling critical communications, as well as helping the broader relief efforts, has been truly inspiring.”
Customers with access to internet are asked to monitor social media and to listen to local radio stations that are currently on air for important updates on the progress of restoration efforts in the various communities and additional services that Flow will be able to provide once its store re-opens.
The Company’s restoration efforts follow on the heels of its establishment of an engineering hub in Antigua designed to accelerate the restoration of impacted networks from this year’s highly active hurricane season.
The company has also launched its C&W Charitable Foundation with an initial donation of US$500K to help with the Hurricane relief efforts across the region and a Regional Text-to-Donate Campaign to raise additional funds.
About C&W Communications
C&W is a full-service communications and entertainment provider and delivers market-leading video, broadband, telephony and mobile services to consumers in 18 countries. Through its business division, C&W provides data center hosting, domestic and international managed network services, and customized IT service solutions, utilizing cloud technology to serve business and government customers.
C&W also operates a state-of-the-art submarine fiber network – the most extensive in the region.
Learn more at www.cwc.com, or follow C&W on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.
About Liberty Global
Liberty Global is the world’s largest international TV and broadband company, with operations in more than 30 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Liberty Global invests in the infrastructure that empowers its customers to make the most of the digital revolution. Liberty Global’s scale and commitment to innovation enables it to develop market-leading products delivered through next-generation networks that connect its 25 million customers who subscribe to 51 million television, broadband internet and telephony services. Liberty Global also serves over 10 million mobile subscribers and offers Wi-Fi service across 10 million access points.
Liberty Global’s businesses are comprised of two stocks: the Liberty Global Group (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) for its European operations, and the LiLAC Group (NASDAQ: LILA and LILAK, OTC Link: LILAB), which consists of its operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Liberty Global Group operates in 12 European countries under the consumer brands Virgin Media, Ziggo, Unitymedia, Telenet and UPC. The Liberty Global Group also owns 50% of VodafoneZiggo, a Dutch joint venture, which has 4 million customers, 10 million fixed-line subscribers and 5 million mobile subscribers. The LiLAC Group operates in over 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean under the consumer brands VTR, Flow, Liberty, Mas Movil and BTC. In addition, the LiLAC Group operates a subsea fiber network throughout the region in over 40 markets.
For more information, please visit www.libertyglobal.com.
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