The Network Equipment Solutions Blog

The key to getting ahead in small business may simply lie in frugality: Who can make the most of the limited resources available to a budding entrepreneur? You never have remotely enough money for everything you want (or perhaps need), so what you do buy needs to bring the most benefits possible, in the most ways.

Reliability is of utter importance when it comes to your network and your networking equipment. Even if 100% uptime is impossible, four-nines is still what you want to shoot for, at least. Today's growing small or medium business simply can't afford to be working with a network they can't trust. It's become vital for doing business in the online world.

Read Part 1.  A typical product warranty from an original OEM covers the product for one year.  Because companies like Juniper want their consumers to purchase only their products, it makes a certain amount of sense that they’re only willing to cover a product for a year.  After all, if for some reason their product fails, their consumers are going to come right back to them for a replacement.  3^rd party distributors, however, must guarantee that their products will absolutely not fail within 1 year or longer.  That is why most 3rd Party distributors offer much better warranties.  Hummingbird Networks actually offers a lifetime warranty on all of their SFPs and optical products and that warranty is extended to most of their merchandise.    In essence, despite their less than 1/4^th of 1% fail rate, they still guarantee their products and will replace any failed optics immediately.  The potential for loss to the company that purchases these products become essentially zero, making the potential for ROI that much higher. 

Your job could be at risk right now because of the type of rack mount UPS you're currently utilizing in your IT department to provide Internet to the entire office. That's right, hardware can have the potential of making or breaking your work, especially when you're already dealing with so many other responsibilities and possible frustrations from your current set-up. So, if you want to be the IT hero for your office and have some of the most efficient and hard-working UPS hardware, check out how you can achieve success down below.

When you're running a busy office with multiple calls, video meetings, and so much more, you always want efficiency for everyone in your office. This will help the busy sales department, important conference calls, and so many other phone related tasks because of their ease of use without sacrificing power user tools to make them extremely robust. What exactly are these business media phones that are perfect for your company? They are the Polycom phones, in particular the VVX series and accessories.

You know all about the importance of protecting your power in your networking or data system, but how exactly can you make sure that your own hardware is correctly protected? There are several ways, one of the biggest being you can purchase the right kind of accessories and gear which will help deter surges in power, brownout, blackout, and any other complications without compromising the entire network. It is plausible to have this sort of hardware, even if you're working with a smaller technology budget. What kind of equipment should you expect when protecting both your levels of power and your hardware?

Sometimes it seems like the hardest thing to get these days is a good night's sleep. Anyone who's been in any way involved in maintaining a network knows that, like being a doctor, you're never truly off-duty. If problems occur, you're going to be on call to fix them any time of day or night. If it's a severe enough problem, of course, then no one gets any sleep, including the boss.

Read Part 1.  Compatible companies selling Cisco Compatbile Optics such as Hummingbird Networks are acutely aware of their consumers' concerns.  They are buying their optics from the manufacturers at a higher cost than their competitors and as such, it is imperative that the product they are offering to the end user is highly competitive in the marketplace.  The first advantage that they offer, as has already been discussed, is their cost.  Cost, however, is only the beginning.  If CTO’s are purchasing optics at an incredibly low price but the compatibility is not reliable, they are not likely to return to the 3^rd party distributor the next time they have an order to fill.

Some of our clients like to take a more active role in the process, and like to know why we make some of the choices we do. And that's great – we love talking about our work! (Sez the blogger...) Plus, every now and then, a question comes up that seems like it's worth addressing in a blog, so we can talk with everyone about it.

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