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A section of hand curated articles, product information and predicted trends to keep you updated with the constantly changing technology utilised by modern business.

News 20 1Connect Ltd - Bringing IT and Communications Together
Secure

VaiGuard FAQs answered

Discover the top 5 VaiGuard FAQs answered to protect your SMB from cyber threats. Learn about 1Connect Managed Ultimate Threat Protection’s cybersecurity solution.

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Infrastructure

UPS Partnumber comparison resource

Struggling to find the right replacement part for your equipment? Let 1Connect help! As an authorized partner with CertaUPS, we can assist you in finding the equivalent part code for your APC products or other established vendors.

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VaiGuard from 1Connect
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VaiGuard from 1Connect

Protect your business from cyber threats with VaiGuard Managed UTP – the ultimate cybersecurity solution for UK businesses. With hourly updates, 99.999% uptime, and real-time next-generation protection, VaiGuard Managed UTP delivers unparalleled security and peace of mind. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Learn more about VaiGuard Managed UTP now and safeguard your business against cyber threats.

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Website Security in 2023
Digital

Website Security in 2023

Outdated WordPress themes & plugins leave your website vulnerable to hackers. Ensure your website security is maintained regulary to protect against downtime and data loss.

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How Secure is a Leased Line
Connectivity

How secure are leased lines?

How secure are leased lines? is a key question on everyone’s mind right now as more and more companies worry about the possibility of cyberattacks. Of course, the conclusion is definitive.

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Connectivity

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

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Connectivity

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

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5 key benefits of wi-fi 6
Communications

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

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placetel reseller
Communications

Become a Placetel reseller

Placetel is a collaborative solution incorporating hosted telephony, messaging and video conferencing via Cisco Webex, owned by Cisco and aimed at the SMB client looking to keep staff connected to

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wide area network
Connectivity

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

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5 remote work questions
Connectivity

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

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phishing
Secure

What is phishing?

What is Phishing? Phishing is one of the easiest forms of cyberattack for criminals to carry out, and one of the easiest to fall for. It can provide everything hackers

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Secure

Cloud Mailbox Defence

What is Cloud Mailbox Defence? Cloud Mailbox Defence is an integrated cloud-native security solution for Microsoft 365 that focuses on simple deployment, powerful search, quick remediation, superior visibility, and best-in-class

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sip
Communications

What is SIP?

Understanding the SIP definition involves knowing how the technology can benefit your enterprise business. As it turns out, SIP trunking is all about ensuring everyone can share ideas, collaborate, and

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what is a softphone
Communications

What is a Softphone?

What is a Softphone?Definition, 12 Best Features, Benefits & More Anyone who has spent time looking into a business phone service has probably heard of a softphone. Chances are you’ve

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3 Remote Working Lessons we learned in 2020
Connectivity

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

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Communications

Transforming your business

Transforming your business through new ways of working Being future-ready means evolving your digital workplace and enabling ways of working that get the most out of your teams. 1Connect Call2Teams

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Back To Business
Connectivity

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

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What is Contact Tracing
Infrastructure

What is Contact Tracing?

What is vBLE? What is Contact Tracing? What is Asset Visibility? Mist Asset Visibility Service makes it easy to find key assets and people with detailed analytics with respect to

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News 26 1Connect Ltd - Bringing IT and Communications Together
Communications

75M daily unique active MS Teams users

Call2Teams is a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Calling Plans Throughout the world MS Teams is continuing to make its mark as the leading chat-based collaboration platform. The service comes complete

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cloud vs landline
Communications

Cloud vs Landline

Setup costs, running costs, scalability, features included, ease of setup and ongoing management, hardware required, flexibility and disaster recovery. These are just some of the key considerations you must take

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News 27 1Connect Ltd - Bringing IT and Communications Together
Infrastructure

Bringing Home the AI-Driven Experience.

Businesses need to keep remote users connected and productive while ensuring continuity and security. Most organisations require basic information security, such as deep network visibility and enforcement, at all points

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Back to Business offer - Virgin Media Business
Connectivity

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

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Microsoft Teams Integration
Communications

Microsoft Teams Integrated calling made easy.

Throughout the world Microsoft Teams is making its mark as chat-based collaboration platform complete with document sharing, online meetings, and many more extremely useful features for business communications. The uptake

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who is 1Connect
Connectivity

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

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Overcommunicate
Misc

Remote Working Tip #3

Because you are not in an office where people can see you, communication is more critical when working remotely.  If anything, you should overcommunicate. Communicate frequently with your team and

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Shared Collaborative Documents
Communications

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.

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Misc

Remote Working Tip #1

Technology and our access to it has changed incredibly fast and remains the key to successfully remote working from home albeit technology runs the ability to remain focused on what

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Hyper Connectivity with 1Connect leased line technology
Connectivity

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

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Communications

MIST Contact Tracing

reducing the risk of Covid-19 in the workplace The Covid-19 threat has exposed a number of unforeseen threats to the enterprise’s other invaluable assets, including people and processes. MIST is

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GBVS Mailshot image "the Time is NOW"
Communications

The Time Is Now

Time and money is running out. The original budget of £67 Million allocated by the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme is down to it’s last £10 Million due to the popularity

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Secure

4 ways to protect your business online

Too often business owners don’t consider the risk their business faces from hackers and malicious software, simply because they don’t think that they’ll be affected. However, no business is in

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Communications

The Benefits of Adopting Cloud Telephony

Cloud telephony solutions are increasingly becoming a very popular phone solution for many businesses from SME’s to international conglomerates. Many people know that cloud-based solutions are used for storing data

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