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BRELSFORD

by Harry Brelsford, Founder –
SMB Nation
(www.smbnation.com)
THE NEWS SOURCE FOR
WUC•UCAAS•CLOUD AND COLLABORATION
here to begin. Early on, I was the
“business kid” in grade school through
high school. at continues to today
with my continued pursuit for work that marries
business and technology. And of how it’s changed
from my rst Apple II+ with a Hayes 14.4k
modem connecting from my college apartment
to a centralized VAX computer. Or has it really
changed? In this blog, I’ll explore Work 3.0. and
point you to some amazing resources.

Full Circle
Above I’m both dating and telling on myself as
I’m alluding to time sharing. Imagine the idea
of having the heavy li ing occurring in a data
center and you could work from anywhere with
a thin client? Your applications were hosted
and your data was safe. at was timesharing
where I started my career in computing. With
the emergence of the PC and client/server
computing, certainly those days were gone
forever. e “local” in Local Area Network
(LAN) loosely translates in GeekSpeak to “within
these four walls”, and that was the development
paradigm of our beloved Small Business Server.

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3 Ways Gigabit

Ethernet Raises

Employee Productivity

SCOTT

by Michael Scott, General
Manager, Wolfe (www.wolfe.net)

I
P telephony, web conferencing, streaming
video, the Internet of ings, the Cloud.
ese are some of the everyday useful,
yet bandwidth-hungry, tools of a mobile
workforce in a uni ed communications and
collaboration (UC&C) environment. However, a
slow communications network could mean these
employees are twiddling their thumbs instead of
e ciently using the resources available to bene t
them.
Whether a business has a central headquarters
and one satellite o ce, multiple locations within
a congested metropolitan area or a mobile
workforce that travels to remote customer sites
(and co ee shops), bandwidth beyond Fast
Ethernet speeds of 10/100 Mbps is essential
if employees are to e ciently shi between
corporate networks and cloud-based services on
smartphones, tablets, laptops and PCs. Today’s
reality is that performance of a company’s
communications network helps or hinders
employees. A multi-gigabit Ethernet network
boosts employee productivity in three ways:

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