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November 2023 - Contents:
PSTN Sunset-Consequences and Opportunities
Mitigating Office Risk from Heat Waves
Does Your IT Staff Know Too Much?
Understanding VoIP Pricing
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Mitigating Office Risk from Heat Waves
Warm weather is generally welcome, but a heat wave that pushes temperatures above 40 degrees can prove dangerous in offices and other workplaces to employees and the equipment they need to do their jobs. The power grid is also at risk as the resultant electrical demands can lead to power outages. Here’s how to mitigate those risks.
Mitigating Office Risk from Heat Waves
A heat wave can prove dangerous in offices and other workplaces. The power grid is also at risk as the resultant electrical demands can lead to power outages. Here’s how to mitigate those risks.
PSTN Sunset-Consequences and Opportunities
The PSTN, the public switched telephone network that operates in parallel to private IP networks and the internet, is winding down and users will find many locations where PSTN based service is no longer offered. The telephony world is moving to VoIP and you need to understand the consequences of that move as well as the opportunities it may offer—like reduced costs.
PSTN Sunset-Consequences and Opportunities
The PSTN, the public switched telephone network that operates in parallel to private IP networks and the internet, is winding down and users will find that there’s money to be saved.
Fast Recovery – a Five Step Process
| 1 | Assess your Disaster Recovery Plan – identify what’s missing or out of date | |
| 2 | Review your risks | |
| 3 | Update your DRP | |
| 4 | Activate mitigation plans including rearchitecting infrastructure for fastest recovery | |
| 5 | Train and test |
For a more extensive document, request “Fast Recovery” from ellen@tmcconsulting.ca.
Request “Fast Recovery” from ellen@tmcconsulting.ca.
Does Your IT Staff Know Too Much?
Consider your day to day operations – you’re rushing around, “putting out fires”, and working to restore normal operations. Where do you get the information that you use to reset or replace and reconfigure your equipment – from existing documentation or from someone’s head? Is vital information resident in someone’s head that is not written down? What will happen if they aren’t there?
Does Your IT Staff Know Too Much?
Is vital information you use to reset or replace and reconfigure your equipment resident in someone’s head and not written down? What will happen if they aren’t there?
Understanding VoIP Pricing
All VoIP phone services are not treated equally by our federal regulator, the CRTC. They have a historic policy that ensures affordable public switched telephone service (PSTN) in every corner of Canada. This means that you may be paying extra to subsidize rural phone service on your VoIP telephone bill where the company next door is not. Here’s why.
Understanding VoIP Pricing
You may be paying to subsidize rural phone service where the company next door is not. Here’s why.