Taking Bandwidth Solutions up a Notch: Swap Data Stacks for Careful Recommendations

Data stacks provide an essential service in organizing data sets to store information and support easy management and processing of this data. But the infrastructure of these data stacks can vary widely, depending on the supporting software behind them. Outdated or limited data stacks can create limitations for what you’re able to achieve through these… Continue reading Taking Bandwidth Solutions up a Notch: Swap Data Stacks for Careful Recommendations

6 Things You Need to Know About On-Net and Off-Net Buildings

When connecting customers to the best service options at their address, the difference between on-net and off-net buildings can be a big one. Service packages and the overall configure price quote (CPQ) process need to know whether any telecom services are on-net at a given location, whether it’s a carrier you represent or a competitor… Continue reading 6 Things You Need to Know About On-Net and Off-Net Buildings

Bandwidth Service Providers and Data Privacy Control

When performing telecom research online, the quality of your research is determined, first and foremost, by your ability to access relevant, quality data. For bandwidth service providers, this important data comes in the form of public and private data sets that can be combined together to build a complete picture of bandwidth at any given… Continue reading Bandwidth Service Providers and Data Privacy Control

What Is Carrier Aggregation in Telecom?

Given the significant cost of building telecom infrastructure to serve a single market, telecom providers have to pick and choose where they build their own technology, and where they’re content to lease the use of infrastructure built and maintained by other providers—including their competitors. In telecom, leasing of infrastructure to enable local network access is… Continue reading What Is Carrier Aggregation in Telecom?

How to Get the Best Fiber-Optic Access

Fiber is often one of the most coveted forms of connectivity among telecom customers. But as a relatively new form of telecom infrastructure, fiber-optic access can be limited, depending on the customer’s location. In cases where customers are seeking telecom services for a set of addresses, fiber-optic access may be fragmented, with only a percentage… Continue reading How to Get the Best Fiber-Optic Access

Take Serviceability on the Go with a Mobile-Friendly Fiber Finder

Manual serviceability research, which used to be a necessary cost of doing business for bandwidth providers, is tedious, time-consuming, and prone to error. Fortunately, modern automation technology has transformed the way bandwidth providers do business, allowing them to take serviceability on the go with the right tools. In fact, thanks to automated serviceability research, the… Continue reading Take Serviceability on the Go with a Mobile-Friendly Fiber Finder

On-Net vs. Off-Net: A Tale of Two Connectivities

In the worst of times, telecom customers have been forced to find connectivity options at addresses where no telecom service has been connected in the past—meaning there’s always a small risk that their preferred service option will face an obstacle to installation. In the best of times, customers have an abundance of choices that include… Continue reading On-Net vs. Off-Net: A Tale of Two Connectivities

Use Multiple Location Analytics to Quickly Assess Both On-Net and Off-Net Locations

It’s both necessary and a major pain point for agents to connect customers to the best telecom services options at their address. Knowing whether a building is on-net or off-net helps determine the applicability of different service packages, but it isn’t always an easy task. Comparing connectivity among a set of on-net and off-net service… Continue reading Use Multiple Location Analytics to Quickly Assess Both On-Net and Off-Net Locations

Network Presence: The Telecom Aggregator Secret Weapon

As providers extend their network through underlying supplier relationships, the lines become blurred between who is a carrier and who is a solution provider. The truth is, almost every provider out there is buying last-mile connectivity through aggregation techniques to fill in the gaps of their network and provide a more holistic solution for customers… Continue reading Network Presence: The Telecom Aggregator Secret Weapon

How Global Address Management Allows for Bandwidth Providers to Level Up

Worldwide, consumers and businesses have embraced the rapid growth of technology with more than 59 zettabytes of data captured in 2020 and an expected $3.7 trillion spent on information technology products by businesses in 2021. With these massive technology spending budgets, businesses are figuring out, first, what to do with the constant flow of information… Continue reading How Global Address Management Allows for Bandwidth Providers to Level Up