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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The Role of Competitive Intelligence in Business Development

Businesses increasingly prefer data-driven decision-making, leaving intuition-based decisions to lesser tasks. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) can locate and extract data from unstructured sources with nearly 95% accuracy. And yet, most organizations struggle to analyze the ocean of data they collect, as nearly 90% of data is unstructured or has no defined schema.

With competitive intelligence (CI), businesses can connect data collection and analysis capabilities into a single system bringing all the existing know-how and adopting it in-house.

CI practices yield a range of transformational changes that fuel growth with areas of impact found at all levels of an organization.

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How AI Is Changing the Web Scraping Landscape

Whereas manual rule-based data extraction is a long and tedious process, the introduction of AI enabled maintenance-free approaches. Besides its primary purpose of data extraction for business insights, web scraping is also used to accumulate training material for AI-based adaptive parsing.

With the help of machine learning models, AI-assisted web scrapers can retrieve and process content from hundreds of thousands of pages in seconds to generate business strategies and forecasts without being explicitly programmed to do so.

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how AI and its subfield, machine learning, shape the current trends in web data extraction and processes that precede it. AI assistance is just as valuable in bypassing anti-scraping measures (such as in our own Web Unblocker) as it is instrumental in the subsequent data structuring.

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Guide to Threat Intelligence Data Acquisition

Cyber threats are increasingly becoming a huge issue in the digital world. Malicious entities find various ways to access sensitive companies’ or individual data. Data breaches, phishing, social engineering, malware, ransomware, and many more threats are evolving rapidly and becoming more dangerous every year.

Understanding the seriousness of cyber threats and taking action to fight against them is a massive step toward a safer digital environment. One of the cybersecurity practices that modern companies use to avoid potential dangers is threat intelligence.

Threat intelligence enables businesses to make faster and data-backed security decisions and be proactive in the fight against threat actors.

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Real-Time Price Monitoring System Architecture

The automation of price monitoring is the only way to stay on top of the price intelligence challenges. Either keeping up with price changes, uncovering competitor strategies, or observing historical pricing data, price monitoring reveals applicable business patterns that catalyze growth.

This white paper provides an action chain for price monitoring, from collecting target URLs to data parsing, along with tips and explanations on the most important elements and processes.

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Get More Out of Your Network

Why A Bigger Pipe Alone Doesn’t Lead to Faster File Transfers

More platforms, larger file sizes, tighter deadlines, content globalization and the growing complexity of the media supply chain are causing organizations to modernize their technology stacks and upgrade their networks. On the surface, it may seem that moving large files from one location to another is relatively simple and that a faster pipe is all you need, but it turns out there’s much more to it.

Read this guide to learn:

  • The differences between bandwidth and throughput,
  • When to use UDP, when to use TCP and how intelligent file transfer makes decisions on the fly,
  • How the right software can help with network latency, packet loss and congestion, and
  • Why Signiant technology helps you get the most of your network.

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7 Must-Haves for Remote Work in M&E

Key Considerations for Accessing Large Media Assets

In 2020, when the pandemic hit, some companies were well prepared to enable a remote workforce, others had to scramble. Remote work is here to stay and a top priority across the industry is shoring up those remote workflows to make sure they are secure and scalable in preparation for whatever comes next.

One lesson that many learned the hard way is that standard tools including Dropbox, Google Drive and WeTransfer, which work well in many industries, lack the technology necessary for most media projects.

Read this guide to learn about seven important considerations you should keep in mind while implementing a permanent, secure and scalable remote working strategy that supports the unique conditions of a distributed workforce in the media industry.

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