wo connections only protect you if they reach your premises by different routes, and the building can decide some of that for you. Charles Cannon explains why one question to the landlord before you sign the lease can save you from a backup line that shares a cable with your main one.
Financial services firm needed lower connectivity costs without losing resilience
• Business impact: rigid off-net circuit meant weeks-long changes and no safety margin for a business trading daily
→ Migrated to a Si Futures-owned on-net circuit with automated BGP failover, tested live at 4 seconds — lower cost, same reliability.
Most MSPs have no view on where your internet traffic goes once it leaves their pipe. Si Futures has connected to NAP Africa — a neutral peering exchange — to ingest global routing tables and take control of the decisions that govern your cloud performance.
When an IT partner spots early signs that a connectivity carrier is under financial stress, what should they do with that information? Geordie Hogarth argues that the instinct to wait is both understandable and wrong — and that the obligation to raise difficult supply chain conversations before clients are forced to react is one of the clearest tests of whether an IT partnership is genuinely embedded.
The Redundancy Illusion: Why Network Resilience Must Be Designed, Not Assumed Connectivity...
After thirty years managing networks across the UK and South Africa, Si Futures examines why business connectivity resilience consistently fails — and the five questions every IT leader should be asking before their next board meeting.
Why We Fix the Problem, Not the Alert: Root Cause Resolution Infrastructure Telemetry • Alert...
When you engage a managed service provider, you’re trusting them to see problems before you do. What you rarely see is how that happens behind the scenes. The inSight Operations Console brings together monitoring and service management into a unified view, with client health algorithms that identify who needs attention before they call. It’s how we ensure our Trusted Response Centreâ„¢ promise scales without diluting the quality of attention each client receives.
When carrier documentation says one thing but your monitoring data says another, who do you trust? This investigation into six months of unexplained packet loss reveals why every carrier handover needs systematic verification—and how three documentation errors in a single handover can misdirect your entire monitoring strategy.
