T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – Remember the Zip drive? Back in the days when everybody used floppy disks for backup, the Zip drive offered about 100x the capacity in a removable cartridge. With hard drive storage now typically in the hundreds of MB, weve moved on from floppies and even the larger Zips. But Iomega, the company that pioneered this technology, has continued to innovate new products. Now theyre not just on the [...] read more

T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – Smaller businesses dont generally spend a lot of time designing and managing their telecommunications systems. Its often takes just a few desk phones, a broadband Internet service, and perhaps a low-end VoIP service to get rolling. Its something the owner or office manager can handle as needed. But smaller businesses have a way of becoming bigger businesses. One day it suddenly becomes [...] read more

T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – Step right up, telecommunications carriers worldwide. Heres your chance to access 4 million commercial buildings in the United States to offer your services via Ethernet. All this is available to you thanks to the new Ethernet Hub service from XO communications.

Yaaawwwwn, you say? As a business telecom services user, what do you care what one carrier offers another? Well, theres good [...] read more