The Secret to Effective Remote Work for SMBs: How IT Teams Are Making It Happen with Cisco.
Discover how SMB IT teams, with the help of Cisco and 1Connect, keep remote work seamless and secure. Learn about key priorities for connectivity, security, and visibility, and how they overcome common IT challenges. Unlock the secrets to a productive remote work experience!
Broadband vs Leased Line
Navigating the right internet choice for your business in the UK? Dive into the essential comparison between the communal ease of broadband and the dedicated, reliable lanes of leased lines, highlighting their impact on operations reliant on swift, dependable connectivity.
What Makes High-Speed Connectivity Essential for Modern Education?
Explore how high-speed connectivity is not just a tool but a necessity for fostering innovation and equity in UK educational facilities. Get ready to delve into the future of education, where connectivity drives learning success.
Evolving Remote Work Practices 2024
Adapting to the New Era: “Evolving Remote Work Practices 2024” Following our previous exploration in “3 Remote Working Lessons,” we delve deeper into the transformation that has reshaped our professional landscapes into 2024. The widespread adoption of remote work, initially a necessity, has now matured into a robust, dynamic approach to work life. This piece, […]
Overcoming Digital Transformation Challenges
The digital evolution brings to the forefront the challenge of overcoming digital transformation obstacles, a journey that is both necessary and rewarding
Transform Your Business with a Dedicated Leased Line connection: Unlock Speed, Reliability & Growth
In a quiet corner of the city, a budding fashion startup confronts a challenge shared by many innovative startups: fluctuating internet speeds in a shared office space. As they prepare for an online product launch, their shared connection falters under pressure, causing delays and frustration. This pivotal moment prompts them to explore a dedicated leased […]
Why SMEs Must Prepare for the 2025 Landline Cut-Off
UK’s BT will switch to VoIP by 2025, offering SMEs benefits like better call quality, savings, scalability, advanced features, and full-fibre broadband. Challenges include reconfiguration, with a focus on customer support and troubleshooting.
The Cost of Inaction: What Slow and Unprotected Internet Could Cost Your Business
“Explore how slow, unprotected internet could escalate your business costs, threaten productivity, and compromise cybersecurity. Understand the ROI of high-speed, secure connectivity.”
Unveiling Wi-Fi Bottlenecks in Business Networks
“Is your WiFi speed teetering, leading to constant buffering issues and slow network performance? Discover ‘Common Signs Your Wireless Network is a Bottleneck’ in our upcoming blog to swiftly diagnose and manage your network problems. Deep dive into network traffic analysis, explore efficient router configurations, and learn about network QoS metrics for optimal performance. Improve your network speed today with our proven methods and network monitoring best practices.”
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Leased Lines for SMBs in the UK
As businesses grow and evolve, so too does the need for reliable, fast and secure internet connectivity. In this blog post, we’ll explore these questions and more.
Embrace the Future of Connectivity with Cisco’s Wi-Fi 6E Technology
Discover how Cisco’s Wi-Fi 6E can boost SMEs’ connectivity and productivity. Learn the benefits and why upgrading to Wi-Fi 6E is a smart move.
Say GOODBYE to downtime, wave HELLO to uninterrupted service.
Explore the benefits of UK Leased Lines for SMEs. Say goodbye to downtime and hello to reliable, high-speed internet with 1Connect Cloud.
Full Fibre Myths (debunked)
Discover the truth behind full fibre technology as we debunk seven common myths and misconceptions. Gain a better understanding of the advantages full fibre offers to businesses in the UK and make informed decisions for your digital future with 1Connect.
5 ways VoIP can improve your marketing strategy in 2023
As a “marketer”, you’re always looking for ways to improve your strategy and generate more leads. One tool you may have overlooked is a VoIP phone system.
How secure are leased lines?
Worried about data security? Learn why leased lines are the ultimate solution for UK businesses, offering unparalleled protection and reliability for your internet needs.
Liverpool City Region Fibre Connectivity
Is your Liverpool City Region business digitally connected? 1Connect in partnership with LCR Connect can light up your business with digital connectivity that gives your business a real commercial edge and opens the path to innovative, performance enhancing technologies. Our ultrafast full-fibre leased lines offer the ultimate business connectivity solution do the Liverpool City Region. […]
Fibre Bright : MAYFAIR
Providing an ultrafast and dedicated fibre connection in Mayfair. Our ultrafast full-fibre leased lines offer the ultimate fibre connection in Mayfair with a dedicated business connectivity solution. Delivering identical upload and download speeds of more than 100Mbps and 1Gbps, our fibre leased lines supply a dedicated service, this means it’s dedicated to you, you don’t share it with anyone […]
5 key benefits of Wi-Fi 6
What is Wi-Fi 6? Simply put, Wi-Fi 6 is the sixth generation of standard Wi-Fi technology. The wireless standards have always been a bit of a mouthful / confusing. Those in the know could impress those that weren’t with a quick referral to “802.11whatever” and that was it, your eyes glazed over. Here’s a quick […]
What is a WAN?
What is a WAN? (Wide Area Network) In its simplest form, a wide-area network (WAN) is a collection of local-area networks (LANs) or other networks that communicate with one another. A WAN is essentially a network of networks, with the Internet the world’s largest WAN. Today, there are several types of WANs, built for a variety of […]
5 Remote Work Questions
Thinking about remote work for your business? Working from home is here to stay. Recent studies show that flexible work benefits both companies and employees. If your small business has always been office-based and you’re thinking of allowing flexible work options, here are the answers to a few questions you might have. How do you […]
Keeping remote work productive and secure
Remote work in small businesses, or people working from home, have the same responsibilities and needs as in-office employees. To help them be as productive remotely as they would in the office, you need secure and flexible work solutions with around-the clock, work-from-anywhere collaboration, so everyone can meet, message, and share documents and keep projects […]
3 Remote Working Lessons
3 Remote Working Lessons (learned in 2020) Change is inevitable, but who would have expected a global shift to remote work overnight? Close to a year on, and it’s called the ‘new normal’. While the initial transition was tough, businesses quickly began to eye the benefits of access to a wider distributed talent pool, better […]
Back to Business – EXTENDED
COVID-19 has delivered unprecedented challenges for business. Now, as we start along the road to recovery, it’s time to come together and provide the support needed to get back on track. To get businesses ready for their new normal, 1Connect has teamed up with Virgin Media Business to create two ‘Back to Business’ offers.In uncertain […]
Back to Business offer
As UK Businesses start to return to the office and look to get back to business we’re introducing a special “Back to Business” offer. This offer reduces the initial on your new Virgin Media Business investment and eases cashflow for the first 3 months of your contract whilst providing a commitment to deliver the circuit on […]
Who is 1Connect?
Who is 1Connect? you might have known us as Square 1 Products For over 30 years we have been providing hardware supply, technical support, site surveys and first class customer service to 1000’s of IT Resellers. Today as 1Connect we’re now enabling IT Resellers to extend their product portfolio by offering Industry leading Hosted Telephony […]
Remote Working Tip #2
There’s no ‘watercooler moments’ at home but you can use team based applications for sharing documents like Bria Enterprise, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Dropbox Business to keep everyone feeling involved. For more information about team collaboration visit our Communications section HERE
5 reasons why your business needs Hosted Telephony
Today’s workforce is more dispersed. It demands flexibility, grows unpredictably and expects advanced communication features like conferencing or caller ID to be intuitive, and come as standard.Traditional analogue business phone systems are ill equipped to meet the new demands of today’s workforce – which is one reason why more companies are switching to VoIP hosted […]
Using collaboration tools to keep work moving forward
To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, 1Connect has taken the precautionary step of asking all of our employees globally to work from home. We want to prioritise the safety and health of our employees, their families and our community. Even though we supply tools to help distributed teams to communicate and work from anywhere, it’s daunting to […]
HYPER CONNECTIVITY
Business Agility, the ability of an organisation to respond quickly to changing demands, to be nimble and dexterous when it comes to resolving customer queries, may not seem at first to be one of the key outcomes being sought when an organisation implements a hosted telephony VoIP solution. However, along with the opportunity reduce costs, increase value, integrate communications, […]
1CONNECT in conjunction with Juniper Networks and MIST Systems would like to invite you to a unique event
Two Large production WLAN and LAN EnvironmentsDeployed to productionFrom ScratchOn a Live broadcast Previous Next Call us crazy because that is what this idea is. No one’s done anything close to this before. During the event you learn how: Juniper & Mist can be installed in hours, not days Juniper & Mist simplify the management […]
Better Patient Experiences with AI-driven wireless
Mist is the first vendor to use Artificial Intelligence to make Wi-Fi predictable, reliable, and measurable. Setup is easy, with automated operations that let you focus on clinical operations and patient care instead of troubleshooting. WI-FI IS PREDICTABLE, RELIABLE AND MEASURABLE Set, monitor and enforce customized service levels for doctors, nurses, and patients such as […]
