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Top 3 2022 Tech Trends: Will Your Community be Left Behind?

Nearly two years ago, measures put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic underscored how important technology, and the ability to access that technology via a high-speed internet connection, is to our daily lives. Remote work, distance education, eCommerce, and telemedicine became vital. It was relatively easy for many Canadians to technologically adapt to this… Read More»
Safety Reimagined

Maximize Safety and Efficiency with Safety Reimagined

Safety Reimagined from Motorola is the first and only end-to-end enterprise technology ecosystem that unifies voice, video, data, and analytics on a single platform, providing your organization with tools to address the everyday challenges hindering productivity, all while improving safety. Safety Reimagined is built on the concept that the technologies that keep your staff and… Read More»

Next Generation 9-1-1 Call Handling and Beyond

Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) is an initiative to update the 9-1-1 service infrastructure and improve public emergency communications services in a growingly wireless mobile society. It will enable the public to transmit text, images, video, and data to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP).​ The mandated CRTC timeline that originally stated PSAPs must transition from… Read More»

How Avigilon Can Help Secure Your Site and Comply with COVID-19 Protocols

While securing your facility is always crucial, the COVID-19 pandemic adds an extra layer of urgency as businesses look for ways to manage public health protocols. Avigilon’s solutions help security teams see and do more with minimal investment in new resources. Combining the Avigilon Control Center (ACC) video management software with the Access Control Manager… Read More»

How Cisco Meraki Can Help IT Teams Support Remote and Hybrid Work

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way most organizations operate. With large numbers of employees working from home, IT teams have to provision and manage employee’s devices remotely. More changes are in store as organizations begin their return to office plans or consider hybrid office environments, and Cisco Meraki can help ease the transition.   Managing work from home and hybrid work environments has been challenging for IT teams, and it’s also… Read More»

Satellite

Fibre vs Satellite: Who is the Winner?

We have written extensively about the benefits of fibre internet, especially regarding community-owned broadband networks. With growing numbers of consumers subscribing to Starlink and other satellite communications providers like SES and OneWeb, it may seem like fibre, long touted as a future-proof internet solution, is about to be edged out by satellite. Spoiler alert: it… Read More»