Technology NadiSen$e

Due to the pandemic, the CXOs of medium and large companies are taking a SECOND LOOK, at ways to REDUCE cellular costs, AND improve mobile device security. We will focus our conversation around how companies with one hundred to thousands of corporate-owned cellular devices can:

Streamline and control their Mobility Management Process, and also reduce wireless costs by $10-20 per device, per month. They can do all this, without changing the company’s preferred cellular carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, etc. This episode's guest is John Gonzalez, Vice President at Wireless Watchdogs, with twenty years of experience in this area. Wireless Watchdogs provides a complete suite of Mobility Management Services or MMS to help clients streamline the process, improve security, and reduce wireless costs.

As a result of the pandemic, CXOs of medium and large companies are taking a second look, at ways to reduce cellular costs and improve mobile device security. Companies can accomplish this by implementing Mobility Management Services or MMS.  

This week's conversation is with Max Silber,  Vice President of Mobility & IoT at MetTel.  MetTel has a unique value proposition in this area.

Max is a member of the Forbes Business Development Council and he has also been highlighted in publications like CNN Business. 

With over 20 years of experience, he has served in a variety of executive roles at some of the world’s most innovative technology and telecommunications companies. Before joining MetTel, Max Silber was a Senior Vice President at IDT Corporation, where he led the company’s managed services and mobility business unit. Before IDT, he was the Vice President of Business Development at Net2Phone Inc. and held similar management positions at Amtel and GTE Spacenet.

With the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of Americans working from home went from 15 million to 92 million in just a couple of weeks.  Companies large and small had very little notice for making this massive change. Employees, executives, and broadcasters moved from a well managed IT infrastructure to a very unpredictable environment. As a result, Internet Service Providers experienced a massive increase in bandwidth usage. 

The competing bandwidth requirements for VoIP phone calls, video conferencing, remote desktop with SaaS applications such as Office 365, gaming, and entertainment are creating overwhelming demands on internet service in every home. 

As a result, we are seeing TV broadcasters and their guest's voices getting garbled and pictures freezing. The CEO’s video is getting frozen during an all-hands meeting, Contact Center Agents’ customer experience suffering. We too have all experienced this and heard the garbled voice on phone calls or experienced jittery video meetings.

Simply said, all this is resulting from internet latency and jitter caused by network congestion. The businesses addressed this problem in the office environment a long time ago. And it is not difficult to fix this for the employees at home too. Join us for the podcast discussing the why, what, and how to address this issue.

Today, I’ll speak with Jeff Burchett, Co-founder and the Chief Revenue Officer of bigleaf networks. Bigleaf Home Office is a software-defined wide area network or SD-WAN to support the “single internet” home office environment. It automatically detects the needs of business applications and intelligently adapts and prioritizes traffic in real-time, called Dynamic QoS.  It also works just as well with the usual multiple internet connections in the branch offices.

The Cyber Security threats were already high before the Covid19 pandemic and with the majority of corporate employees working remotely, the cyber threat landscape expanded dramatically.  Even though remote workers were using VPN to access corporate assets the devices may have been infected since they were being used in less secure home environments.  During the last few weeks, we may be lulled by the illusion that the cyber incidents have stabilized. Did they? Or is it the calm before impending storm or the SECOND WAVE?  The SECOND WAVE of cyber threats is expected to materialize as the compromised laptops of the returning remote workers are connected directly into the corporate networks.

Today's episode is a conversation about Mobility Management Solutions (MMS), with Michael Sterl, President of MobileSolutions,  a Mobility as a Service Provider, a Periscope Equity portfolio company, where he is the Operating Partner.

Michael  is also a Co-Founder of Carve Digital, and Cloud Optik; two platforms, which provide sales enablement and data analytics solutions to the telecom industry. Prior to this, he was a Co-Founder of Simple Signal, a unified communications service provider.

We will explore how companies can Optimize, Secure, and Manage their Cellular Mobility Environment and REDUCE COSTS!

This includes,

• Wireless Expense Management (WEM)
  
• Mobile Device Management (MDM)
  
• Unified Endpoint Management (or UEM)
  
• Security Management, and
  
• Help-Desk Services

In this series, we will be discussing with industry experts practical strategies and technologies that will quickly and affordably get your workforce ready to work anywhere, anytime. We will help you explore innovative and affordable solutions available to you. Solutions that integrate (play well) with the systems you have in place, not temporary band-aids.

My guest  Dan Foster, Chief Revenue Officer at StratusWorx, provides insights into the key challenges for enabling the remote workforce.

Dan will also give an overview of their Cloud Workspace service that enables employees to access their desktops include software, file, and shared folders from any location, on any device.