Bigleaf Improves Microsoft Teams Performance

In this video by Bigleaf Networks, the efficacy of Bigleaf's solutions in enhancing Microsoft Teams performance is showcased. The Teams video conferencing platform, widely used by businesses, often encounters issues such as video freezing, audio lag, and degraded call quality, typically due to packet loss, latency, and jitter. The video demonstrates that simply increasing bandwidth is not a solution. Instead, Bigleaf employs ISP diversity and intelligent software to prioritize and optimally route traffic, ensuring high-quality video calls. A comparative test with and without Bigleaf highlights significant improvements in video frame rates, network quality, audio integrity, and reduced packet loss and jitter, making Teams calls reliable and clear. Bigleaf's router and software work in tandem to ensure smooth operation of video and voice calls.

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Things To Consider for A Better Internet Failover Setup

This guide discusses the common issues with VoIP and video calls, like dropped calls, choppiness, robotic voices, and lag, which affect many businesses. It emphasizes the necessity of network optimization to ensure consistent internet performance, especially for cloud-based technologies and communication platforms. Bigleaf's solution offers a network optimization service that manages traffic across internet connections, ensuring optimal performance and uninterrupted VoIP and video calls. It aims to end common call problems permanently by diagnosing, understanding, and solving them through intelligent routing and real-time internet connection adjustments.

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Improving UCaaS with Purpose-Built SD-WAN

This guide outlines Bigleaf's solution to common VoIP and video call issues, emphasizing the importance of network optimization. It details the challenges users face with dropped calls, choppiness, robotic voices, and lag in VoIP and video calls. Bigleaf addresses these problems through real-time internet performance detection, QoS policy adjustments, and failover optimization without manual configuration. The solution is designed to work seamlessly with cloud technologies and offers a reliable, enterprise-grade connection over broadband internet, highlighting the criticality of consistent internet performance for business operations.

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4 Common VoIP and Video Call Problems

This guide outlines Bigleaf's network optimization solutions, addressing the frequent problems experienced with VoIP and video calls. It emphasizes the ubiquitous and critical nature of such calls, the common issues of dropped calls, choppiness, robotic voices, and lag, and Bigleaf's ability to resolve these with real-time internet performance monitoring and QoS policy adjustments. The solution is designed for cloud-based technologies and offers seamless integration with existing systems, ensuring uninterrupted calls and consistent application performance, vital for business communications in the modern digital workspace. Bigleaf advocates for its effortless setup and promises to eliminate common internet-related complaints, thus enhancing overall business productivity.

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Plugging Into Profits: Rewiring Brick and Mortar Retail

This infographic emphasizes the importance of reliable network connectivity for the digital transformation of brick-and-mortar retail. It outlines the components of digital transformation, such as deployment of modern technology, cloud-based inventory management, data-driven personalization, and omnichannel integration. It details the investment focus of retailers on improving inventory accuracy, enhancing system integration, and boosting efficiency and productivity. The infographic also highlights the significant economic impact and potential savings from implementing advanced connectivity, illustrating Bigleaf's role in optimizing networks to ensure continuous connectivity and protect retail businesses.

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Things To Consider for Better Internet Failover

This infographic is designed to guide businesses in setting up effective internet failover systems. It outlines a four-step approach to ensure business continuity and optimal internet performance. Starting with understanding the various causes of internet failure, it moves to prioritizing business goals, like uptime and rapid recovery from outages. The infographic suggests considering organizational needs such as ISP diversity, various connection types, same IP address failover, and Quality of Service (QoS) settings. It emphasizes the importance of using intelligently-powered software for automated, real-time traffic routing to prevent disruptions. The final step involves customizing the failover setup to match the specific requirements of the business, factoring in IT resources, budget, and cloud reliance. Bigleaf positions itself as a solution for effortless internet reliability and optimization, inviting readers to explore its offerings through a demo.

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Improve Your VoIP & Video Conferencing Calls

This infographic focuses on Bigleaf's solution to common VoIP and video call issues, offering a network optimization platform that ensures consistent and reliable connectivity. It addresses the challenges of dropped calls, choppy audio, robotic voices, and lag in real-time communications, which can lead to lost revenue and poor business performance. Bigleaf's solution provides immediate secondary circuit access and leverages intelligent load balancing and real-time monitoring to optimize application performance. The platform ensures seamless failover and quality service for VoIP and UCaaS providers without the need for manual configuration, aiming to eliminate common network-related complaints and improve business operations.

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Bigleaf: Internet Connectivity without Complexity

The Bigleaf Fact Sheet outlines Bigleaf's network optimization solution that simplifies internet connectivity for businesses. It combines SD-WAN technology with intelligent software to enhance internet and application performance, ensuring business continuity even in the face of common internet disruptions. Bigleaf's unique architecture, which includes customer premises routers and a dedicated gateway network, provides end-to-end traffic management and optimization. Key features include bi-directional QoS, same IP address failover, VPN optimization, and intelligent load balancing. Bigleaf emphasizes its user-friendly, plug-and-play setup, and its compatibility with any internet connection, firewall, and cloud application, making it an ideal fit for multi-site businesses, especially those transitioning from MPLS to internet VPN environments or operating in rural areas with limited ISP options.

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Bigleaf Wireless Connect

This is an overview of Bigleaf Wireless Connect, emphasizing its role in ensuring uninterrupted business operations through its advanced network optimization solution. It highlights key features such as business continuity during outages, optimized internet for seamless application performance, and convenient high-speed wireless connectivity. Additionally, it underscores the solution's ease of implementation and management, internet redundancy, optimal performance through intelligent monitoring, and the benefits of single-vendor billing and robust technical support. Bigleaf positions itself as a reliable internet backbone for businesses, promising minimal downtime and optimal operational efficiency.

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Live Streaming at Scale with Ant Media Server

Today, one of the biggest challenges in building a real-time streaming solution with sub-second latency is the automated scaling up and down of your infrastructure whenever and wherever you need. Some use cases such as online auctions, games, virtual events, webinars, e-conferences and conference call applications require ultra-low latency video streaming along with an infrastructure supporting a large number of viewers and publishers. It should also have the capability to scale up your solution to support thousands or even millions of viewers.

In order to achieve that, Ant Media provides off-the-shelf real time streaming at scale capability to run with automated mode in public cloud networks such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud or even on your on-prem infrastructure by using Kubernetes

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A Smart Social Media Strategy

As buyers grow more skeptical of sales messaging and social media ads get more expensive, savvy retailers are embracing an affordable, surer path to consumer trust: influencer marketing.

Creators and influencers are viewed as relatable and aspirational. They are closer to customers than almost anyone, say Deloitte researchers, enabling brands to move, sway and sell at the speed of culture.

And companies are sponsoring influencers for a fraction of what they are paying for ads. Great deal? Let’s discuss.

How effective is influencer marketing, really? What are the risks, and how can retailers reduce them and boost their chances of success? We answer those questions in this resource, arming you with what you need to know to kickstart an influencer marketing experiment — your first steps toward a profitable program.

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What’s Next in Collabs?

Similarly, as the industry matures, it will continue to become easier for brands to get the most out of these important relationships. For example, Afluencer offers both free and premium plans for brands to get started, and provides tools to guide brands in their approach, regardless of budget. As with other marketing channels, what it all comes down to is determining a brand’s campaign goals and choosing the right path -- and the right people -- to make it happen.

How will influencer marketing continue to shift? In an industry that is notoriously difficult to predict (who would have thought a man skateboarding while drinking Ocean Spray would be the pandemic’s viral hit?), here are a few areas brands should pay attention to in the year ahead.

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What Are Micro-Influencers and Why You Need Them

Micro-influencers are influential people who have a small but dedicated following. They can help you reach a wider audience with your marketing efforts, and they're a great way to connect with potential customers. So why are micro-influencers so important? Watch this video to find out!

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