Month: September 2021
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Visual Fault Locator (VFL)
A VFL is extremely useful when troubleshooting fiber. They are the first tool to start any installation and most troubleshooting. They’re compact tools and very affordable so that every employee should be equipped with one. Before starting any installation, begin with confirming that your fiber is good. By using a VFL prior to installation, you’ll…
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Fiber Optics
I’ve been working with fiber for almost 10 years now as an installer. Today I just completed my first fiber training and received a few certificates. The course helped me understand the specification and the usage of each different kind of fiber. The knowledge that I obtain from class will not only improve my skills…
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NETWORK SECURITY
Understanding the vulnerability of being attack online by cyber threats is very important nowadays. As the world runs through networking, sadly say, there are trained IT people that work to disrupt, damage, and destroy data just to gain information and money they can use for themselves. As simple as clicking an email can allow them to get into…
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SIP TRUNKS AND FLEXIBILITY
For companies wanting to make full use of their IP-PBXs and not only communicate over IP within the company, but also outside the company a SIP trunk provided by a Service Provider to connect to the traditional PSTN (public switched telephone network) & network is the solution. Unlike in traditional telephony, where bundles of physical…
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THE INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY, AND BUSINESS CHANGES
The Internet has been very interesting. From the DOT COM to the DOT COM bust, technology have been changing superfast. Then come the search engine and ecommerce. Then VOIP, SD WAN, now cloud-based servers, software, services, and software as a service. We use to judge a company credibility by the nice fancy office that they…
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NEC SV8100 PHONE SYSTEM
The NEC SV8100 phone they have 12/24/32 button digital and IP phone. This phone has a display, speaker/receiver volume, ringer volume, shortcut menu, call back, call forward, voice call, programming system and station speed number, function key, transfer, hold, last number redial, conference and answer a second calls. This NEC product and services are design…
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AVAYA PARTNER ACS PHONE SYSTEM SERVICES
We use to sell the Avaya Partner ACS Phone System. This is an old digital / analog phone system that was very popular for small business. It was very dominate for small business that needed a simple reliable phone system. This system was great for customer that had simple analog phone lines, digital phones, analog…
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SITE SURVEY
Today we received a call from a new customer to look at their business and evaluate their issue and come up with a solution. The customer has been under contract with a phone leasing company for a few years and was unable to change anything out. Their current phone system was unable to page properly,…
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WIREMOLD
A customer called us to look at their camera system. Their issue was that when windy and rainy days come around, it would cause the camera to flicker. They have had one incident of heavy rain causing the POE switch to completely fail and replaced. Once we arrived on site, we were able to determine…
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EXTERIOR CABLE RUN
A customer contacted us today to add on two cables for their home. Once we arrived, we were told that they were quoted extremely high through others for the same two run. We proposed if they were looking into saving some money, we can run the cables on the exterior walls inside and outside their…