September 18, 2009
By: Grant Buckler – Network World Canada (11 Sep 2009)
Instead of having three to four different networking products, small to mid-sized businesses today can get one appliance that provides routing, voice, data, firewall and other security functions.
Monster Mortgage has about 30 employees, and they know about mortgages, not networks. “We’re all sales people,” says Nick Ametrano, vice-president of the Toronto-based mortgage broker, “so technology flew over our heads fairly quickly.”
So when the company looked for a network to carry both data and voice between its Toronto and Vaughan, Ont., offices, simplicity was a key criterion.
That’s not uncommon. Few small businesses have the money, the time or the IT resources to install and maintain complex networks that rely on multiple devices and take lots of configuration.
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