Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Feb 3, 2025🚨More Bandwidth is Not the Answer | Why Businesses Need Smarter Connectivity, Not Bigger Pipes💡If you’ve ever dealt with an ISP sales rep, you’ve probably heard this pitch: "Your business needs a 1 Gbps fibre connection! It’ll make everything faster and solve all your problems!" 🚨 It’s a lie. 🚨 More bandwidth does not make your business appl...1 likebandwidth
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Jan 24, 2025🚜The Silent Killer of High Availability | How Split Brain Can Cripple Your Network & Why Fusion's SD-WAN Is the Ultimate Solution🎯In networking, high availability (HA) is essential for businesses striving to maintain uninterrupted operations. By ensuring redundancy and failover, HA setups aim to provide resilience against failures. However, lurking within many of these deployme...3 likes·26 readsSplit Brain
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Jan 21, 2025💔Breaking Free from the Fibre Fault Trap with SD-WAN🤦When a fibre connection to your business fails, the path to resolution often feels like an obstacle course fraught with delays, unnecessary checks, and a lack of visibility into the actual problem. Fibre Network Operators (FNOs) often default to assu...5 likesSD-WAN
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Jan 12, 2025🕸️Revolutionizing Connectivity with SD-WAN | A Game-Changer for Managed Service Providers📡Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is a networking technology that uses software to manage and optimize the performance of a wide area network (WAN). SD-WAN decouples network management and control functions from the underlying hardware, ena...3 likesSD-WAN
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Jan 10, 2025📞Human Error | The Silent Culprit Behind Telecommunications Outages💣Telecommunications networks are the backbone of modern businesses and societies, yet they are often plagued by outages. While technical failures might appear to be the immediate cause, a deeper investigation frequently reveals that the root cause lie...6 likesHuman Error
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Jan 4, 2025👻MythBusters | “The Internet Has No Guarantees, It’s Only Best Effort”🎃If you’ve ever had an Internet outage, chances are you’ve heard this excuse from your ISP, FNO, or WISP: “The Internet is a best-effort service with no guarantees.” This explanation conveniently shifts the blame onto the nebulous concept of "the In...3 likesMythbusters
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Dec 25, 2024⏩The Overlooked Last Mile in SD-WAN | A Practical Approach to Resilience & Reliability🏃The promise of SD-WAN revolutionising enterprise networking is one we’ve all heard. Fueled by Gartner reports and Silicon Valley marketing hype, vendors wax lyrical about shiny features—AI-driven traffic steering, zero-trust security, and cloud integ...10 likes#SouthAfrica
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Nov 12, 2024👏Fusion’s SD-WAN | The Power of Last Mile & ISP Agnosticism ✊In a world where businesses rely on constant connectivity, flexibility is key. Fusion’s SD-WAN solution embodies this flexibility by being fully agnostic to the last-mile connectivity medium and independent of any single ISP or operator. This design ...3 likesFusion SD-WAN
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Oct 2, 2024💰The Last Mile Fibre Price Squeeze | The Hidden Cost of Service Quality💸As the demand for high-speed connectivity continues to surge, the competition in the last-mile fibre market has intensified. Providers across South Africa are aggressively lowering prices to attract customers, but this price squeeze often comes at a ...6 likesLast mile
Ronald Bartelshubandspoke.amastelek.com·Aug 11, 2024🚗Optimizing the Last Mile with SD-WAN | A Game-Changer in Networking ⛽In the world of networking, the term "best path" has long been synonymous with routing protocols that determine the most efficient route for data to travel across a network. These protocols have previously relied on metrics like hop count, cost, band...9 likesLast mile