Helping Your Business Achieve Hyperconnectivity

By: John Shepler

It took a generation to achieve worldwide Internet connectivity. Now, hold on. We’re going into hyperconnectivity almost immediately.

It’s Everything, Everywhere, All The Time
Hyperconnectivity is the idea that anyone and anything that can be connected will be connected on an always-available basis. We’ve made the jump from logging-in to always-on broadband for our computers and mobile device. The next step is to let the machines chatter among themselves even while we take ourselves out of the loop. You’ll no longer have to access devices. They’ll access each other and you, as needed.

It’s Already Started
We’re starting to experience some of this with connected thermostats, security cams, remote controlled lighting and so on around the home. Business use will be even more insidious. As management sees how much productivity is improved by machines and applications coordinating their actions, the pressure to get more and more connected functions is going to ramp up exponentially. As the human in the loop, your activities will be enhanced by augmented and virtual reality, artificially intelligent agents, and real-time delivery of everything you need to know. No longer will there be a gulf between office and factory, company and suppliers or business and customers. It will all be one big loop.

Are You Ready For This?
If you’ve found it a challenge to get everyone in the company online or transition business applications to the cloud, you “ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” The highest reliability connections, low latency for real time interactions, accommodation for hundreds or thousands of new interfaces, and bullet-proof security to keep out those who would do you ill is becoming a de-facto requirement.

How’s your network doing? Have you broken out in a cold sweat yet or just developed some anxiety about the challenges on their way? No need to face this alone. There is expert help that is up to speed and ready to roll right now. Take a couple of minutes to watch this:


It’s Time… NOW!
If you are seeing even the leading edge of the technology tsunami coming for your business, there is no time to waste. We have the expertise, staffing and experience to make your enterprise network hyper-ready and the tools and applications to give you an immediate productivity improvement. Don’t wait. Get the Telarus team on-board now and you’ll have the support you need to meet the challenge.

SDN Performance Takes a Leaf of Faith

By: John Shepler

If the cloud has done anything, it has turned a magnifying glass on once mundane WAN connections. Back in the day, it was OK for file transfers to take a bit too long or the Internet to be a little dicey. After all, the really critical operations were confined to the company LAN and in-house data center. No more. Once your services are hosted in the cloud, WAN performance becomes just as critical as LAN performance.

The New WAN Problem
There’s only one problem. YOU don’t own the WAN like you do your LAN wiring. You are at the mercy of wireless, cable, DSL, fiber and copper wireline service providers. Any issues in their networks have an immediate impact on your business.

How Do You Protect Yourself?
The answer is increasingly SDN or Software Defined Network solutions. SDN covers a lot of technology, but one very popular implementation for business is the integration of multiple, diverse WAN connections. You have several connections to the cloud, but they are coordinated by SDN.

Nature Knows How
Bigleaf Networks calls their process for doing this “Natural Networking.” They create a redundancy of connections with fault tolerance similar to how leaves protect themselves in nature. Here’s how Bigleaf explains their system:


Pretty clever, right? The SDN performance optimization that Bigleaf provides can also save you money. Without traffic management, many businesses wouldn’t even consider “best effort” broadband services like wireless, cable, DSL or low cost fiber options. The cost of outages and variations in performance was too great. The only acceptable WAN solutions were multiple dedicated private line services set up with automatic instant failover. These lines can get pretty expensive and you still have the headache of having to manage this system yourself.

Don't Do It Yourself
Bigleaf makes optimizing multiple Internet connections painless. They provide the managed router that tunnels traffic to their gateway clusters in the cloud. It’s all plug-and-play for you. For the ultimate in reliability, they even have an option to install redundant routers and switches at your site to match the redundancy of their cloud cluster.

Are you frustrated with the performance of your business broadband connection for cloud services? It’s time to take a closer look at what Software Defined Networks can do to improve both quality and reliability of your WAN services. Bigleaf technology is now offered by Telarus, along with services from over 50 data, voice and cloud providers. Discuss your issues and needs with an expert consultant now at no charge.