{"id":80555,"date":"2025-05-07T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80555\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T01:04:10","slug":"cybersecurity-network-resilience-redundancy-pipeline-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80555\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity, Network Resilience & Redundancy | Pipeline Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Art Nichols<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n The cloud. Artificial intelligence. Cutting-edge software. We\u2019re witnessing a democratization of technology whereby enterprise-grade solutions like these that
\n were once reserved for large companies are now affordable for and accessible to smaller and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).\n <\/p>\n

\n That\u2019s certainly the case with network communications infrastructure, where the emergence of a new class of SMB-tailored internet solutions marks a coming of age for sophisticated yet streamlined
\n and cost-effective connectivity options. That\u2019s good news for SMB decision-makers, who clearly are inclined to push the technology envelope. A 2024 survey<\/a> by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that eight in ten (81%) of
\n small business owners plan to increase their use of technology platforms, and three quarters (77%) plan to adopt emerging technologies like AI and the metaverse. Forty percent say they\u2019re already
\n using generative AI (GenAI), up from nearly a quarter (23%) the previous year.\n <\/p>\n

\n Now, SMB companies can grow their infrastructure and tech solutions to compete against others \u2014 at a cost that fits within most budgets. As critical a enabler as high-powered network
\n communications can be for a business, making the move to advanced internet solutions gives SMBs the mature, reliable and powerful network capabilities their customers and employees expect, and
\n they must have to compete. These solutions deliver the capabilities to address SMB connectivity priorities as well as some of their most obvious pain points:\n <\/p>\n

\n Make no mistake: Without a reliable, resilient network, an SMB risks getting overlooked, overshadowed and overtaken in whatever market it competes. For businesses today, going dark from a
\n communications standpoint, even for a moment, simply isn\u2019t an option. Customers want the ability to connect with an organization 24\/7\/365. What\u2019s more, network downtime of any duration can be
\n damaging to a small business\u2019s bottom line \u2014 to the tune of hundreds of dollars per minute of downtime by some estimates \u2014 and to its reputation.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u00a0<\/strong>SMBs that rely on exclusively on legacy network infrastructure are especially vulnerable; that\u2019s why many are shifting to fiber internet. By nearly every measure, including
\n reliability and performance, high-speed fiber internet represents the gold standard in internet connectivity for a business.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u00a0As reliable as fiber internet is, it\u2019s still imperative for businesses to build redundancy into its communications infrastructure. Today I see more SMBs embracing a \u201cfiber first\u201d strategy,
\n using fiber internet as their primary connectivity mode, with another mode for backup to ensure critical devices stay online and communications channels with employees and customers stay open.
\n Fixed wireless access (FWA) is one such viable backup option.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u00a0In areas where fiber internet isn\u2019t available, such as in locations that lack wired infrastructure (remote locations, mainly), it may be worth considering FWA as a primary connectivity
\n option. It\u2019s worth keeping in mind that FWA is more limited than fiber internet because its upload and download performance depends on available spectrum band, and it competes for cellular
\n bandwidth with other mobile services. All other factors being equal, SMBs that have a choice between FWA and fiber internet services tend to opt for fiber for its combination of cost, reliability
\n and performance.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n \u00a0Some SMBs may not have a choice, however. In those situations, FWA can be an efficient and scalable alternative to a wired connection, enabling organizations to access 5G, with latency and
\n speeds that are decent, if not comparable to those of fiber internet.\n <\/p>\n

\n The ongoing Internet of Things (IoT) boom, whereby an estimated 18.8 billion devices<\/a> were connected to the internet as of the
\n end of 2024, along with the proliferation of AI-driven apps, cloud-based business software, and\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Art Nichols The cloud. Artificial intelligence. Cutting-edge software. We\u2019re witnessing a democratization of technology whereby enterprise-grade solutions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[39160,39158,39159,39161,39164,3082,39157,39156,5389,39166,39165,39162,53,16,15,39163],"class_list":{"0":"post-80555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ai-for-network-performance","9":"tag-ai-for-network-reliability","10":"tag-ai-for-network-resilience","11":"tag-cybersecurity-for-smbs","12":"tag-gen-ai","13":"tag-internet","14":"tag-network-reliability","15":"tag-network-resilience","16":"tag-pipeline","17":"tag-pipeline-article","18":"tag-pipeline-magazine","19":"tag-self-service-for-smbs","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wi-fi-7"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114463864461096646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}