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Why Businesses Are Turning WiFi Into a Marketing Channel

Why Businesses Are Turning WiFi Into a Marketing Channel

Feb 23, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most cafés, gyms, and retail stores already hand out the Wi-Fi password like napkins. It keeps customers lingering, keeps the kids happy, and feels like table stakes in 2026. Yet savvy marketers are now asking a smarter question: if every phone in the room is touching our network, why aren't we using that moment to introduce ourselves, learn a little, and invite the guest back? That curiosity is exactly why businesses are turning Wi-Fi itself into a marketing channel and why BeamBox is grabbing headlines.
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Expert Insight: Why Local Internet Traffic Matters More Than You Think

Expert Insight: Why Local Internet Traffic Matters More Than You Think

Feb 20, 2026 By Mike Hoy, CTO, Pulsant, and Mike Hellers, Product Development Manager, LINX In Pulsant
Imagine sending a letter to your neighbour across the street, only for it to be routed through London or even Amsterdam before landing in their letterbox. This is effectively what happens to much of Scotland's internet traffic. Despite physical proximity between users, businesses and services, digital data is frequently sent on needlessly long journeys, often leaving the country before reaching its destination. This approach is inefficient, costly and poses questions about privacy, resilience and digital sovereignty.
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Don't Panic: A Low-Risk Strategy for Ingress NGINX Retirement

Feb 19, 2026 By Jakub Suchy In HAProxy
The Ingress NGINX project is winding down. For many organizations, this means planning a migration for critical infrastructure. While the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller is the natural successor for these workloads, a "rip and replace" strategy isn’t always viable. You might have complex configurations, customized annotations, or deployment freezes that make a sudden switch risky. There's a lower-risk path: Place HAProxy in front of your existing Ingress NGINX deployment.
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Bindplane Blueprints for Elasticsearch: Production-Ready NGINX Log Pipelines for Kibana

Feb 19, 2026 By Chelsea Wright In ObservIQ
We've just released new and easy-to-use Bindplane blueprints designed specifically for Elasticsearch as a destination. These blueprints empower teams to quickly transform raw events such as those from NGINX access and error logs into clean, structured, and ECS-compliant data optimized for high-performance visualization in Kibana.
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N-central 2026.1 Release Notes

Feb 19, 2026 By N-able In N-able
Join Paul Kelly, Head Nerd at N-able, for a deep dive into the N-central 2026.1 release. This update focuses on three core pillars: usability, compliance, and platform experience to help your team manage environments with greater efficiency and confidence. Key Highlights: · CMMC Ready Version: A brand-new, on-premise version of N-central designed to meet US Department of Defense cybersecurity requirements. This supports organizations requiring CMMC Level 2 compliance and handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Federal Contract Information (FCI).
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Self-Driving Data Highways: Realizing the Strategic Advantages of Autonomous IP Optical Networks at OFC26

Feb 19, 2026 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon
In the telecom industry, leaders are under pressure to deliver more—more capacity, more agility, more reliability—while managing rising complexity with fewer resources. The network is the circulatory system of the modern telco, yet it’s still often operated like a patchwork of manual roads, each requiring constant human intervention. This model worked when traffic was predictable and growth was linear.
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GPU-as-a-Service: The network's critical role in accelerated computing

Feb 18, 2026 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
The explosion of AI has created a continuous demand for computing power. At the heart of this need sits one critical resource: GPUs. They have become the hardware of choice for AI and machine learning, particularly deep learning workloads that operate on enormous data sets. However, as organisations race to train larger models and deliver faster inference, many are discovering that owning and operating GPU infrastructure isn’t always practical.
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