September 10, 2019
Of all advancements happening in the Wireless sector, nothing is the talk of the town like Wi-Fi 6 – The Next Generation’ of Wireless.
Also known as High Efficiency Wireless, 6 (technical term 802.11ax) is one of two specification standards for wireless network transmissions scheduled to be ratified in 3Q 2019. Wi-Fi…
Drummer and fantasy football fanatic Alex is TEC Communications’ Systems Engineer, and the company’s resident Video-Voice-Messaging Collaboration and Wireless & Mobility specialist. He also can’t stand the taste or smell of popcorn.
June 17, 2019
MPLS: THE OLD WAY OF DOING THINGS
Historically, the most common option for improving data center management and operations across a WAN (Wide Area Network) has been Multiprotocol Label Switching – MPLS as it’s known in IT-speak. MPLS routing directs data across nodes by utilizing short path labels rather than…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 3 times.)
February 13, 2019
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER RUN OF ATTACKS
Advancements in technology are occurring at an increasingly dizzying pace. New technologies emerge to join the ranks alongside ‘new and improved’ functionalities of existing ones….and all the while, increased adoption of these technologies has led to an exponential growth of data breaches. Verizon’s 2018…
Frank is a systems engineer, specializing in network consulting for LAN, WAN, cybersecurity and data center/hyperconvergence.
Credentials? Plenty. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCSP, VCP5-DCV
January 11, 2019
FROM PERSONAL TO BUSINESS, THE INCREASING POPULARITY OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
Those of us who remember the 1970s-1980s understood what it was like to live in a ‘transactional’ world. Payor agrees to receive an asset (typically a product or service) from payee in exchange for a one-time payment – oftentimes with the…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 3 times.)
October 16, 2018
I assure you, this isn’t one of those painful ‘When I was your age…’ lectures your father might unleash about ‘…how hard life was back in MY day.’ (Although much to my consternation, I still haven’t identified his school route that was uphill BOTH ways.) But to be sure,…
Drummer and fantasy football fanatic Alex is TEC Communications’ Systems Engineer, and the company’s resident Video-Voice-Messaging Collaboration and Wireless & Mobility specialist. He also can’t stand the taste or smell of popcorn.
July 3, 2018
Cloud storage is a rather straightforward concept – a service where data is remotely maintained, managed and backed up, allowing users to store their information online with access from ANY location – anywhere in the world – via the Internet (with a private cloud hosting solution residing on an…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 3 times.)
May 3, 2018
THINK AGAIN.
According to identity theft protection company IdentityForce, reported year-over-year data breaches in the U.S. increased +40% in 2016, with the largest breach in history (affecting more than one billion – yes, BILLION – Yahoo accounts) leading the way. That trend only gained momentum in 2017, with significant quantities…
Greg is a 22-year marketing and advertising veteran who is Director of Marketing for TEC Communications.
March 2, 2018
Does your data center have the secret sauce? Does it have that special ingredient that creates a simple and thorough solution? Does the following list describe your data center?
One IT Platform for all its needs
Data Resiliency
Scalability without complexity
Business Continuity
Data Redundancy
Centralized Management
A fiscally…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 3 times.)
January 22, 2018
What Does It Mean for Data Center Management?
What is hyperconvergence? To understand what hyperconvergence is, it helps to understand where we’ve come from in the data center space.
The data center – or “server closet”, depending on the size of your business – used to be a room that kept…
Systems engineer.
Spartan. (Go MSU!)
Ironman (2.4 miles, 112 miles, 26.2 miles. 3 times.)
January 18, 2018
A Firewall Replacement shouldn’t wait until the technology gets outdated.
There’s the old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is not the case with technology – especially when it comes to network security. Learn why a university, with a tight budget and a two-year-old firewall, contacted TEC…
