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Virtual Lunch & Learn: Telephone Systems – From Landline to Cloud Solutions

Telephone technology has grown in leaps and bounds since operators sat at a switchboard connecting calls. The shift to cloud solutions and the ability to utilize internet broadband means that we can share more than just voice communications via these new Unified Communication Systems. Everything from video conferencing, file sharing, text messages, and yes, even […]

Connectivity Pointers: Our Universal Connection

By Nicole Courtemanche If anyone follows this blog—and goodness knows, every blogger does wonder if any reader follows their work!—you have read numerous references to songs and movies and television programs that I choose to help color between the black lines and white space divide of the human experience and everyday low-voltage technology devices. It […]

Connectivity Pointers: Sound Masking and Psychoacoustics

By Nicole Courtemanche Psycho shower scene circa 1960 There are very few sounds over the course of 131 years of cinema history that managed to linger in the minds of movie goers like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. In the iconic shower murder, the lead female character, Marion Crane is stabbed to death in a hotel bathroom […]

Connectivity Pointers: Wireless Connectivity – How Cardi B inadvertently ruined a perfectly acceptable technology equipment acronym … 4EVA

By Nicole Courtemanche What really is acceptable anyways? Before last summer, there was a term that was widely used and accepted across all technology industries and disciplines for a specific networking hardware that was created in 1994. This term is really an acronym, an abbreviation for the hardware which allowed its users to access the […]

Virtual Lunch & Learn: ReOpening the Office – Infrastructure for today’s work environment

The office environment is changing. Whether adapting to remote or hybrid work styles, installing socially-distanced work stations, integrating access control systems or expanding into new buildings, all affect the systems and services that support an efficient office. Join us for a conversation on how to best support changing post-pandemic office environments with a solid infrastructure […]

Connectivity Pointers: Security Cameras – I always feel like somebody’s watching me! And I have no privacy!

By Nicole Courtemanche Scopophobia: The Fear of Always Being Seen The year was 1984 when the anxious words of singer Kennedy Gordy aka Rockwell cried out that he was merely, ” … an average man with an average life. I work nine to five, hey, hell I pay the price. All I want is to […]

Connectivity Pointers: Rack ReOrgs—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Introducing creepy guy: This picture is worth a thousand words. Hopefully, this blog will be less. In December 2020, I wrote and presented a webinar called, “Standards Matter: Optimizing your IT, voice, and data infrastructure with certified structured cabling in a post-pandemic world”. Video available here. I asked my colleagues here at Connectivity Point to […]

Virtual Lunch & Learn: Telephone Systems, End-of-Life Notifications & What to Do Next

Learning that your telephone system has been discontinued is always disconcerting. Hear from our experts on what an end-of-life notification actually means, how quickly (or not) you need to act and what options you have moving forward. This talk is especially relevant for companies with Samsung or Panasonic phone systems, the most recent companies to […]