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November 2022 - Contents:
The PSTN—a Historical Overview
Is Your Disaster Plan Weak?
Zero Trust Network vs. VPN
Amazon’s Amazing AI
This is the November 2022 issue - Volume 9 Issue 6.
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The PSTN—a Historical Overview
The PSTN was created to interconnect telephones. Over time it grew to be the largest man–made technical artefact ever created. Now the old 2–wire analog PSTN is nearing its end days as many new buildings have only fiber connections into the network. We are looking into implications for users for a later article but we begin the series with a look at the interesting history of the PSTN—where we started from.
The PSTN—a Historical Overview
The PSTN, the largest man–made technical artefact ever created, in its day, is nearing its end. Copper wires, spider–webbing throughout the world have transformed us and have an interesting history.
Is Your Disaster Plan Weak?
Are you certain that, after a disaster such as a fire, flood, or earthquake, your disaster plan (or Business Continuity Plan) will help you to get back in business? Will it support the recovery of your network and vital data? If your plan is inadequate, your organization’s recovery costs could be much higher than you expect. That is, if you can avoid bankruptcy. After a disaster, many organizations do not survive.
Is Your Disaster Plan Weak?
A weak disaster (business continuity) plan can cause your bankruptcy. After all, after a disaster, many organizations do not survive.
How Do You Rate?
Our IT Assessment Team can identify and explain how you compare to best practices on:
| • | Reliability | |
| • | Staffing Levels | |
| • | Costs | |
| • | Customer Service |
For a free copy of “What to Assess and Why,” email:assessment@tmcconsulting.ca.
For a free copy of “What to Assess and Why,” email:assessment@tmcconsulting.ca.
Zero Trust Network vs. VPN
Traditionally organizations have relied on VPNs to provide access to remote workers to let them operate securely, as though they were working at their desk in the office. More and more, this is considered to be insufficient from a security perspective, and the move is towards zero–trust network access (ZTNA) solutions, even for local access at the corporate office.
Zero Trust Network vs. VPN
Traditionally we’ve relied on VPNs to provide remote access to let workers operate securely, but we now know that not everything that is connected to the corporate network can be trusted.
Amazon’s Amazing AI
Amazon has amazing AI. When I called to resolve a billing problem and realized that I was talking with an AI, I was really impressed. One of their goals is to be the “Earth’s most customer–centric company,” and to support this, they have developed a few flavours of AI—some for internal customer service and some for outside organizations like NASA through their AWS operations.
Amazon’s Amazing AI
Amazon has amazing AI. When I called to resolve a billing problem and realized that I was talking with an AI, I was really impressed.