Does your business need the Internet? Of course it does – as we say, the Internet is more important than oxygen. Now that Comcast and FIOS have cheap and plentiful internet connections – every business should have dual connections. But how do you make that work?

While some businesses have installed multiple Internet connections for redundancy and disaster prevention, most do not have a failover mechanism for that second connection to take over when the primary link fails.

Internet & Telephone works with our business Internet customers in Massachusetts and throughout New England to install and configure rock-solid network architecture, powered by Cisco Systems, to ensure that instantaneous and seemless failover mechanisms are in place to guarantee availability of Cloud resources. Call us (978.683.9100) or email us today to find out more.

These days, most people are familiar with VOIP even if they don’t recognize the word. Voice over Internet Protocol is something that many of us use from time to time or even on a daily basis. Services like Skype are a good example of a VOIP system.

Just What is a PBX? PBX refers to Private Branch Exchange, which sounds a little confusing, but is basically a method of switching phone lines back and forth to connect them in the world of offline communication. When referring to VOIP, the system is essentially the same in concept, only it works over a LAN or WAN network. These are data-oriented rather than circuit switched networks which we use in the real world phone systems. (more…)

We live in a world that constantly forces us to “do more with less”. Employees are expected to be more efficient. Multi-function devices are becoming the standard on many desktops. We multi-task by answering email, talking on the phone and reviewing a spreadsheet – all at the same time.

We shouldn’t be surprised then that IT departments are asking the same of their fileservers. When server utilization gets measured, we find that many servers have much more capacity than they actually use for the majority of the time. With so much excess capacity – why not run more than one server on a single machine? (more…)