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Microsoft Teams Direct Routing: Making Teams Your Phone System

Remote and hybrid work have made Microsoft Teams a core tool in nearly all large organizations. Many business leaders and IT administrators would like to extend the value of Teams to enable users to make and receive business phone calls. This improves the productivity of their employees by keeping them connected with customers, business partners, and co-workers in the office, at home, or even on the road.

Monitoring your router with MetricFire

Having a healthy network is essential for any online business. Downtime can be costly; if you're not monitoring your devices, you could have more downtime than you realize. Routers, in particular, are essential for keeping a network running. Routers are critical equipment for any business that relies on the Internet to communicate with customers or clients. A slow or faulty router can grind business to a halt, which is why keeping an eye on your router's performance is essential.

Should Your Business Use A VPN?

How we do business is rapidly changing, and companies must adapt to new technologies to stay competitive. As employees increasingly work from home, data security becomes an even greater concern. Therefore, choosing the right Virtual Private Network (VPN) for your small business can greatly impact how secure your employees' data are online. In this blog post, you will learn about the benefit of using a VPN and why it may be worth investing in one for business.

5 key factors to consider before choosing network mapping software

With networks now more distributed than ever, network maps have become key components to enabling comprehensive and effective network monitoring and management. Helping IT admins visualize their complex IT infrastructures and draw actionable insights from the end-to-end mapping of network nodes, network maps offer many advantages. IT admins rely on these maps for drilling down to the cause of network issues, troubleshooting more quickly, and enhancing resource management.

Top 10 Network and IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Network and IT infrastructure monitoring is something necessary for all connected organizations today. However, choosing the right network monitoring tool and software is not easy as there is a huge diversity of these tools on the market now. Comprehensive network and IT monitoring tools help you manage your devices and ensure that they are available when you need them. These tools and software offer a wide variety of benefits for companies of all sizes.

Kentik Synthetics in 20 Seconds

You can't wait until an end user tells you an application is slow before you troubleshoot. Kentik Synthetics shows you exactly where the latency is, whether that's in a public cloud, your private network, and with your SaaS applications. By using Kentik synthetic tests, you can proactively monitor application performance and find out if there are problems before your end users do.