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Operation: Hosted Firewall + Content Filtering

Moving forward with our T.O.M. for March, we’d like to brief you on Operation: Hosted Firewall and Content Filtering. Hosted Firewall and Content Filtering has the ability to integrate security, content filtering, network firewall and network capabilities to protect you

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Mike Smith’s Brain E17: The Phone Upgrade from Hell

Welcome to E17 of @mikesmithsbrain and in addition, welcome to The Phone Upgrade from Hell. This is every IT Guy’s worst nightmare…the boss wants to look into changing cellular phone providers for the company!! What will our sysadmin do?? Leave us

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Mike Smith’s Brain E14: IPsec VPN or MPLS? Answered.

Welcome to Episode 14! In this Episode, Mike is going to present the solution to the tech scenario presented from episode 13. In this scenario, should your company use MPLS or just an IPsec VPN for it’s WAN? See how

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Mike Smith’s Brain E16: Cutting Costs with ISDN PRI Phone Service

Welcome to Episode 16! In this follow up episode, Mike talks cutting costs with ISDN PRI T1 lines and scalability options. If you haven’t seen E15: the IT Guy yet, check it out here. Leave us a COMMENT or TWEET AT US to let us know

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Mike Smith’s Brain E15: ISDN PRI T1’s at Multiple Locations

Welcome to Episode 15! You are in for quite a ride as we follow a day in the life of an IT guy… Maybe you can relate to Steven Jones and his relentless workload. What can we do to help

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What SIP Trunking Can Do for You!

Our February Tech of the Month spotlight is on SIP Trunking! Watch to find out the benefits and cost savings it will bring to your company. Cheers! Need an AeroCom expert to search the hundreds of SIP providers and tell you

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Mike Smith’s Brain E13: IPsec VPN vs MPLS

Welcome to E13 of @mikesmithsbrain. In this episode, mike proposes a tech scenario dealing with MPLS vs IPsec VPN WAN alternatives. Let’s see if your IT analysis skills measure up! Wich WAN technology would you choose to go with, given

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Mike Smith’s Brain E12: Faxes with VoIP – Answered

Welcome to E12 of @mikesmithsbrain. In this episode Mike is going to give you the 3 best solutions to the proposed scenario in Episode 10, regarding what to do with your fax machines, when your company moves to hosted VoIP.

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Mike Smith’s Brain 11: PRI T1’s vs. SIP T1’s

Welcome to E11 of @mikesmithsbrain. This time, Mike answers the hypothetical question that was proposed in Episode 9, “should this company (with nationwide locations and ISDN PRI T1’s), switch to SIP T1’s? You can TELL US what technologies you’d like to

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Mike Smith’s Brain E10: Fax Machine Scenario Challenge

Welcome to E10 of @mikesmithsbrain. How good are your IT analysis skills..? In this episode, Mike explains a hypothetical office scenario in need of some serious IT help! Under these circumstances, what should this company do with their fax lines?

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