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The essential guide to POTS The official birthday of the internet was January 1, 1983, and the world’s first smartphone was released in 1994. Since then, we’ve come a long way, building upon traditional phone systems to create the modern phone networks we know and love today. But those old phone systems have been showing their age for

Why companies depend on Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS) First of all, what is POTS? Plain old telephone services, or POTS, have been around in some form since 1876. But by the mid-2010s, many businesses began taking steps to reduce dependency on POTS, partly due to the mass migration to VoIP and partly due to

Business networks are changing rapidly, causing new threats to emerge and creating unknown risks that network managers need to consider. Remote working is now routine, with around 45% of Americans working at home full-time or part-time. Cloud storage accounts for approximately 50% of corporate data worldwide, while the number of IoT-connected endpoints reached 12.3 billion in 2021, and projections suggest

Network access control (NAC), also known as network admission control, is the process of restricting unauthorized users and devices from gaining access to a corporate or private network. NAC ensures that only users who are authenticated and devices that are authorized and compliant with security policies can enter the network. As endpoints proliferate across an organization—typically driven