The SecurEdge Blog

When it comes to K-12 Wi-Fi networks in this country, over half lack the proper infrastructure needed to support the necessary technology for today's digital learning environment.

The senior living industry is going through a digital transformation and with the expected increase of adults looking for continuing care, planning for Wi-Fi is more important than ever.

With all the dynamics of professional environments and the complexity of wireless connectivity, a lot of businesses are beginning to move towards innovative solutions to deliver mission-critical Wi-Fi to its daily operations.

The higher education IT landscape is constantly changing, especially when you’re focusing on Wi-Fi and networking. What used to be fairly straightforward, is no longer simple or one size fits all. College and University campuses are among the most demanding wireless environments in existence today.

When you think about what it takes to compete in today’s marketplace, every business is essentially becoming a technology business. In denial?

When was the last time you plugged a cord into a device to access the Internet? If you had to, could you even locate one of those bright blue ethernet cords? Maybe you’ve got one jumbled in a drawer somewhere, wrapped around some rewritable blank DVDs and a digital camera—relics from a different technological time.

You might not think that how you purchase your company’s WiFi network could have a critical impact on your business, but from our experience it can, and it does.

No matter what industry you’re in today, you really have to provide wireless, one way or the other. As more and more applications move to the cloud, and more of your employees and guests are bringing mobile devices on to your network and expecting a fast, secure experience, WiFi is now essential to your business. If your network goes down, your business goes down—it’s that simple.

The traditional piecemeal approach to providing WiFi doesn’t meet the challenges of tomorrow, or even today for that matter. As businesses take on the challenge of WiFi planning for 2018, more and more of them will look to a turnkey subscription-based model of purchasing the hardware, software, and managed services necessary to deploy an enterprise-grade wireless network.

Enterprise-grade WiFi is no longer a “nice-to-have” or an exclusive feature only found at large companies. Today, it’s a must-have for every size business, across every industry. However, this has created more than a few challenges. From design and installation to management and cost, wireless is not an easy utility to implement. In the video below, Philip Wegner, Founder, and CEO of SecurEdge Networks explains in detail how a subscription with SecurEdge (WiFi as a Service) solves these challenges and simplifies networking.

Large-scale, enterprise-grade wireless networks are both complex and costly to design, install and manage over-time. Fortunately, there is a solution to these technical and budgetary challenges and it's called WiFi as a Service. In this week's episode, we reveal one of the main reasons why businesses should consider purchasing their wireless networks with a secure WiFi subscription.

What if you could harness the power of secure WiFi to reach your customers in real time and give your business a competitive advantage all at once?

Nowadays, people just expect WiFi to work—period. They don’t really care how it works, but they do expect it to always be available, be extremely fast, and always secure.

“We just don’t have the budget right now.” Over the years, this has been a very common response when speaking to customers about purchasing a secure WiFi network. However, what if I told you there’s an affordable solution to this problem, that doesn’t require any large, up front capital costs?

Technology is everywhere--entwined in almost every part of our culture. It affects how we live, work, play, and most importantly learn. With mobile and other wireless devices like the IoT becoming an increasing requirement across every industry today, it only makes sense that our schools are also effectively deploying mobile technology in the classroom. However, for many schools, implementing the latest technology is a difficult strategy to navigate.

There’s a classic song by the band Cinderella that I’m sure we’ve all heard before…maybe. The song I’m referring to is titled, “You don’t know what you got (Till It’s Gone)” and that was definitely the case for me the other night.

As the CIO or IT manager of any business, complaints about the quality of your company’s Wi-Fi are probably the last thing you want to hear. Negative feedback is not only easier to express because of social media and sites like tripadvisor and Yelp, but consequently more disruptive to retention and overall business growth.

With user expectations rising, the performance of your wireless network has become a mission-critical service today. However, getting the most from your Wi-Fi is easier said than done. In this week's episode, we outline some of the many factors that will impact your Wi-Fi performance and offer some advice on how you can avoid running into problems. 

In the world of network infrastructure, matching your system to the technology and end-users it's supporting has grown to be a rather difficult and expensive task. With devices changing at such a rapid pace, how do you plan on keeping up with demand? In this week's episode, I wanted to discuss the concept of subscription-based services, specifically, two reasons why you should consider a managed WiFi system. 

The last thing college and university CIOs want to read are tweets from students complaining about the school's Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, these social complaints are just the tip of the iceberg, and might be a precursor to an even bigger problem--decreasing student enrollment.

Over the past 5-7 years, mobile devices have become the primary method everyone uses to access network resources and the internet.  To ensure everyone is productive and happy, your wireless network needs to have the ability to support the increasing demand.

For manufacturing, warehousing and other industrial businesses, the industrial internet of things offers the largest opportunity for growth and increased productivity since the 1980’s “digital revolution”.

A few months ago, I attended a destination wedding at a resort—it was beautiful. However, there was one glaring issue that everyone at the wedding and myself couldn’t ignore, the resort’s Wi-Fi was unreliable and well—awful.

Wireless networking has grown in both scope and complexity over the past 5 years or so. Businesses and organizations of all types and sizes are required to support programs like BYOD, guest Wi-Fi access, and a growing number of connected devices (yes, this includes the IoT). The problem for most IT teams is, how do you effectively manage your WLAN (especially when you’re a small team)?

Life is full of choices. From small day to day choices like where to eat for lunch, to more critical scenarios like which wireless service provider you should partner with to design, deploy and help support your wireless network.