Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00
Written by Micki Kaufman
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 05:33
Internet access has come a long way since the days of 300 baud modems. But regardless of speed, Internet connectivity has always been through a conversion process from some protocol to the Ethernet that runs on company LANs and PC network cards. If only one could get to the Internet via Ethernet itself. Well, now you can.
Last mile access via Ethernet is rapidly gaining popularity in metropolitan areas. Why? Primarily because of the cost savings, although ease of network interfacing is also a consideration.
An Ethernet access connection is often called Metro Ethernet service because it is intended primarily for use within city or downtown portion of a city. A more generic term is Carrier Ethernet. As a core networking technology, Ethernet for WAN (Wide Area Networks) provides a direct extension of your company network across town, across the country, or to other networks such as the Internet.
DIA or Dedicated Internet Access is the gold standard for business connections to the Internet. Dedicated means that you have exclusive use of the line and it's bandwidth back to the Internet. Consumer grade services, such as DSL, WiFi, and Cable broadband, are all shared services. With shared services, the quality of your service is highly dependent on what your neighbors are doing online. With dedicated access, any contention for service will be limited to your own company.
T1 lines are standard for DIA service at 1.5 Mbps. They can be bonded up to 10 or 12 Mbps. Beyond that you need fiber optic services, such as OC3 or DS3 over SONET. These can be pricey services, especially when the local telephone company is involved in providing the complete service or last mile access.
Ethernet access connections are something new. Many competitive carriers have their own fiber optic networks and will directly connect you for 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps Ethernet service. You'll get a better price because they do not share facilities with the telcos.
Another option is EoC or Ethernet over Copper. You can get up to 45 Mbps Ethernet service, including dedicated Internet access, if you are located nearby a carrier point of presence. Service is delivered over multiple twisted copper pair using an advanced modulation scheme.
I mentioned ease of network Interface. With Metro Ethernet service your access connection is a standard RJ-45 jack, just like the ones you'd expect to find on a switch or router. What's coming into that jack is the same Ethernet protocol that you are running on your LAN.
Is your location eligible for Metro Ethernet service over copper or fiber optic cable? Find out how close the nearest Ethernet connection point is to your location. Then get a quote and see how much Ethernet access can save you over your current Internet or point to point network service.
Author:T1 Rex
Last mile access via Ethernet is rapidly gaining popularity in metropolitan areas. Why? Primarily because of the cost savings, although ease of network interfacing is also a consideration.
An Ethernet access connection is often called Metro Ethernet service because it is intended primarily for use within city or downtown portion of a city. A more generic term is Carrier Ethernet. As a core networking technology, Ethernet for WAN (Wide Area Networks) provides a direct extension of your company network across town, across the country, or to other networks such as the Internet.
DIA or Dedicated Internet Access is the gold standard for business connections to the Internet. Dedicated means that you have exclusive use of the line and it's bandwidth back to the Internet. Consumer grade services, such as DSL, WiFi, and Cable broadband, are all shared services. With shared services, the quality of your service is highly dependent on what your neighbors are doing online. With dedicated access, any contention for service will be limited to your own company.
T1 lines are standard for DIA service at 1.5 Mbps. They can be bonded up to 10 or 12 Mbps. Beyond that you need fiber optic services, such as OC3 or DS3 over SONET. These can be pricey services, especially when the local telephone company is involved in providing the complete service or last mile access.
Ethernet access connections are something new. Many competitive carriers have their own fiber optic networks and will directly connect you for 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps Ethernet service. You'll get a better price because they do not share facilities with the telcos.
Another option is EoC or Ethernet over Copper. You can get up to 45 Mbps Ethernet service, including dedicated Internet access, if you are located nearby a carrier point of presence. Service is delivered over multiple twisted copper pair using an advanced modulation scheme.
I mentioned ease of network Interface. With Metro Ethernet service your access connection is a standard RJ-45 jack, just like the ones you'd expect to find on a switch or router. What's coming into that jack is the same Ethernet protocol that you are running on your LAN.
Is your location eligible for Metro Ethernet service over copper or fiber optic cable? Find out how close the nearest Ethernet connection point is to your location. Then get a quote and see how much Ethernet access can save you over your current Internet or point to point network service.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00
Written by Micki Kaufman
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 05:33
Have you discovered the reading pleasure of electronic ink? Over 500,000 avid readers have made the jump from bound blocks of paper to the lightweight Amazon Kindle. Many are queuing up their orders for the larger Kindle DX due out this summer. Kindle is where reading is headed, and we're proud to be included in their blog catalog.
Yes, you'll still be able to read us on your computer any time you want. That's where we're created and hosted. But now you also have the option of subscribing to the Kindle edition of T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer. Take your electronic reader to the beach, on vacation, to school or to work. Along with your extensive collection of novels, textbooks, tech references, and newspaper subscriptions, the latest updates of this blog will be delivered to you when they are published, in full text with illustrations.
Do you have your own Kindle yet? If not, you'll be interested to learn that this cutting edge device makes reading long passages of text much easier on the eyes than staring at a computer screen. The reason is that LCD backlight in every computer. It gives everything a nice glow, but the glare is hard on your eyes. You may already notice that you can't read as long online as you can with a good book. The eyestrain forces you to look away for awhile or quit altogether. Perhaps you resort to that old workaround of printing the documents you want to read. That solves the glare problem, but it can get pricey when you have volumes of text to print. There's also the matter of having to file and store all that paper documentation. It can be time consuming and not so green when it's time to clean the file cabinet.
The Amazon Kindle does away with all that trouble. Your documents are easy to read using the e-ink screen of the Kindle. There's no backlight to give you computer monitor eyestrain. Contrast is high and you can read from the Kindle easily in bright light as well as in your favorite easy chair. Storage is in the Kindle itself and online at Amazon. No need to shop for more bookshelves. You won't be needing them.
Delivery is fast and readily available, too. Kindle uses a cellular-based wireless delivery system called Whispernet. It's so fast that you can buy a book and start reading it minutes later. You don't need any wires, because the technology is built into the Kindle and doesn't require your computer to download books. Magazines, newspapers and blogs are delivered by Whispernet as soon as they are available. You don't have to worry about missing the latest installment because delivery is automatic.
The standard upgraded Amazon Kindle has a 6 inch diagonal black and white electronic ink digital display that shows up to 16 shades of gray. It holds up to 1,500 books. Delivery of new books is under 60 seconds. The Kindle is book size at 8" x 5.3" x a thin 0.36".
The larger Amazon Kindle DX measures a magazine size 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38" and sports a 9.7 inch diagonal electronic ink display. It holds up to 3,500 of your favorite books and includes a native PDF reader for other documents
By the way, there are now over 275,000 books available for the Kindles, including most New York Times Bestsellers. You'll also be able to subscriber to top newspapers, magazines and blogs, like T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer.
Author:T1 Rex
Yes, you'll still be able to read us on your computer any time you want. That's where we're created and hosted. But now you also have the option of subscribing to the Kindle edition of T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer. Take your electronic reader to the beach, on vacation, to school or to work. Along with your extensive collection of novels, textbooks, tech references, and newspaper subscriptions, the latest updates of this blog will be delivered to you when they are published, in full text with illustrations. Do you have your own Kindle yet? If not, you'll be interested to learn that this cutting edge device makes reading long passages of text much easier on the eyes than staring at a computer screen. The reason is that LCD backlight in every computer. It gives everything a nice glow, but the glare is hard on your eyes. You may already notice that you can't read as long online as you can with a good book. The eyestrain forces you to look away for awhile or quit altogether. Perhaps you resort to that old workaround of printing the documents you want to read. That solves the glare problem, but it can get pricey when you have volumes of text to print. There's also the matter of having to file and store all that paper documentation. It can be time consuming and not so green when it's time to clean the file cabinet.
The Amazon Kindle does away with all that trouble. Your documents are easy to read using the e-ink screen of the Kindle. There's no backlight to give you computer monitor eyestrain. Contrast is high and you can read from the Kindle easily in bright light as well as in your favorite easy chair. Storage is in the Kindle itself and online at Amazon. No need to shop for more bookshelves. You won't be needing them.
Delivery is fast and readily available, too. Kindle uses a cellular-based wireless delivery system called Whispernet. It's so fast that you can buy a book and start reading it minutes later. You don't need any wires, because the technology is built into the Kindle and doesn't require your computer to download books. Magazines, newspapers and blogs are delivered by Whispernet as soon as they are available. You don't have to worry about missing the latest installment because delivery is automatic.
The standard upgraded Amazon Kindle has a 6 inch diagonal black and white electronic ink digital display that shows up to 16 shades of gray. It holds up to 1,500 books. Delivery of new books is under 60 seconds. The Kindle is book size at 8" x 5.3" x a thin 0.36".
The larger Amazon Kindle DX measures a magazine size 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38" and sports a 9.7 inch diagonal electronic ink display. It holds up to 3,500 of your favorite books and includes a native PDF reader for other documents
By the way, there are now over 275,000 books available for the Kindles, including most New York Times Bestsellers. You'll also be able to subscriber to top newspapers, magazines and blogs, like T1 Rex's Business Telecom Explainer.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00
Written by Micki Kaufman
Monday, 18 May 2009 05:33
Audio teleconferencing, video conferencing and Web conferencing are enjoying a renaissance in this economic downturn. The reason is that they are one business tool that can cut costs and improve productivity without the ugly process of layoffs or facilities closings. It's a classic example of technology usurping traditional business processes that are no longer viable. By tightly coupling teams to make their progress faster and substituting for expensive air travel and hotel stays, electronic conferencing helps businesses stay viable while economic activity is slow. AccuConference is a clear leader in this field.
What differentiates AccuConference from other companies in the conferencing space is that they offer a complete range of solutions, including traditional audio conference calls, video conferencing and Web conferences. By getting all the conference solutions you need from one supplier, you don't have to worry about having to integrate potentially incompatible services.
Cost savings are a major attraction of AccuConference calling services, but not at the expense of quality. Poor voice quality can spoil the effect of connecting far away locations so that everyone sounds like they are in the same room. You need to be able to understand what is being said without having to say "could you repeat that?" That's why AccuConference uses only the best carriers available, Tier A for international and toll free traffic and Tier B for local calls. They also lightly load their conference bridges, the devices that actually interconnect participants, so that no bridge is at more than 50% capacity. This gives AccuConference the ability to accommodate a sudden requirement for additional conferences at the same high performance level.
How about those cost savings? If you've shopped around, you know that you can pay upwards of 25 cents a minute per participant or even more with some conferencing providers. AccuConference will give you top rate performance for just 7.9 cents per minute per participant on a pay as you go basis. Each participant dials a toll free number, so it costs them nothing. As an account holder you'll get a monthly bill for the minutes used, but no set up fees, contracts or monthly requirements. You use the service whenever you want with no reservations needed.
The pay as you go program also includes Insight Web Conferencing at no additional charge. There's something you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. You'll be able to share Microsoft PowerPoint charts, have instant online chat, and online voting/polling while your audio conference is in progress. Or you can use their Meeting Central Unlimited Pro plan that expands PowerPoint presentations to include application sharing, desktop sharing, remote control sharing, webtour, white boarding, and instant chat. All of this capability is available along with toll free audio conferencing at just 7.9 cents per minute per participant.
There's also a flat rate audio conferencing option that features an area code 404 Atlanta dial-in number, Insight Web Conferencing, and 24/7 availability without reservations. Participants and moderators will pay long distance charges to call the Atlanta number. As account holder, the service costs you as little as $14.95 a month for up to 5 lines. Other plans are available for 10, 25 and 50 lines. The advantage of flat rate is that you know what you'll pay each month, regardless of how much you use the system.
Larger organizations can also enjoy the advantages of low cost teleconferences. You can get options that include hundreds of participants, international dial-out or dial-in, operator services and video conferences. All of these are available at attractive rates.
The right way to evaluate the cost advantage of audio, Web and video conferencing is to compare using these services with what you'd do otherwise. If you can get the same results via conferencing that you could with travel for in-person meetings, you'll be way ahead using the technology. A more subtle comparison is to weigh the productivity improvement you get with real-time interaction between team members who are not collocated versus exchanging ideas and documents by, say, email. If you cut the time to market or time to solve a problem by half, how much is that worth to you?
You may just have to give this a try and see how well it works for your organization. You have little to lose since there are no contracts or commitments. You may have an incredible amount to gain in both cost savings and business advantage. Learn more about AccuConference telephone, Web and video conferencing options and get started quickly and easily right now.
Author:T1 Rex
What differentiates AccuConference from other companies in the conferencing space is that they offer a complete range of solutions, including traditional audio conference calls, video conferencing and Web conferences. By getting all the conference solutions you need from one supplier, you don't have to worry about having to integrate potentially incompatible services.
Cost savings are a major attraction of AccuConference calling services, but not at the expense of quality. Poor voice quality can spoil the effect of connecting far away locations so that everyone sounds like they are in the same room. You need to be able to understand what is being said without having to say "could you repeat that?" That's why AccuConference uses only the best carriers available, Tier A for international and toll free traffic and Tier B for local calls. They also lightly load their conference bridges, the devices that actually interconnect participants, so that no bridge is at more than 50% capacity. This gives AccuConference the ability to accommodate a sudden requirement for additional conferences at the same high performance level.
How about those cost savings? If you've shopped around, you know that you can pay upwards of 25 cents a minute per participant or even more with some conferencing providers. AccuConference will give you top rate performance for just 7.9 cents per minute per participant on a pay as you go basis. Each participant dials a toll free number, so it costs them nothing. As an account holder you'll get a monthly bill for the minutes used, but no set up fees, contracts or monthly requirements. You use the service whenever you want with no reservations needed.
The pay as you go program also includes Insight Web Conferencing at no additional charge. There's something you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. You'll be able to share Microsoft PowerPoint charts, have instant online chat, and online voting/polling while your audio conference is in progress. Or you can use their Meeting Central Unlimited Pro plan that expands PowerPoint presentations to include application sharing, desktop sharing, remote control sharing, webtour, white boarding, and instant chat. All of this capability is available along with toll free audio conferencing at just 7.9 cents per minute per participant.
There's also a flat rate audio conferencing option that features an area code 404 Atlanta dial-in number, Insight Web Conferencing, and 24/7 availability without reservations. Participants and moderators will pay long distance charges to call the Atlanta number. As account holder, the service costs you as little as $14.95 a month for up to 5 lines. Other plans are available for 10, 25 and 50 lines. The advantage of flat rate is that you know what you'll pay each month, regardless of how much you use the system.
Larger organizations can also enjoy the advantages of low cost teleconferences. You can get options that include hundreds of participants, international dial-out or dial-in, operator services and video conferences. All of these are available at attractive rates.
The right way to evaluate the cost advantage of audio, Web and video conferencing is to compare using these services with what you'd do otherwise. If you can get the same results via conferencing that you could with travel for in-person meetings, you'll be way ahead using the technology. A more subtle comparison is to weigh the productivity improvement you get with real-time interaction between team members who are not collocated versus exchanging ideas and documents by, say, email. If you cut the time to market or time to solve a problem by half, how much is that worth to you?
You may just have to give this a try and see how well it works for your organization. You have little to lose since there are no contracts or commitments. You may have an incredible amount to gain in both cost savings and business advantage. Learn more about AccuConference telephone, Web and video conferencing options and get started quickly and easily right now.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00
Written by Micki Kaufman
Friday, 15 May 2009 05:33
What exotic gas glows blue when excited by an electrical discharge? Why, it's Xenon of course. Hence, the name for this cool new cell phone from LG Electronics. While that explains the clever moniker for the LG Xenon phone in blue, how does the red Xenon get its name? Wait, I know! It's so hot from messaging that it's glowing red hot. So hot, in fact, that it's cool.<!--SELECTION-->Enough about
Author:T1 Rex
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00
Written by Micki Kaufman
Thursday, 14 May 2009 07:33
It's been predicted for years and pooh-poohed for as many years. The Internet has gotten much bigger than first planned and the original technology is starting to get creaky with the strain. Someday, it's going to all come crashing down if nothing is done. That someday now looks like 2010.ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, has sent out a letter to Internet Service Providers warning
Author:T1 Rex
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