So what’s important when designing a network? Reliability, performance and serviceability should be the top three connected considerations in the integrator’s mind.
One of the effects of the pandemic has been a seismic shift in the amount of time clients spend working from home. Not only that, but we’ve also seen a boom in the use of streaming services for entertainment. Both trends have placed a fresh burden on the network and are showing few signs of reversing to pre-pandemic levels. In this context, the reliability of the home network has moved from becoming an important factor to mission critical on every installation. Now and in the future, the home network has to work all of the time.
Hand in hand with reliability is getting the performance of the network right. Today’s network hosts numerous applications, which assume no limits when it comes to bandwidth and delay. Irrespective of the number of internet-connected devices, bandwidth consumption or the quantity of audio and video content being streamed to loudspeakers and displays, the network has to be able to handle the volume and manage the network traffic efficiently. We’re talking enterprise-grade solutions with the flexibility and the capability to deliver anything clients request while adhering to the latest and greatest technologies.
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