Business Connections fro Winter 2020

6 WINTER 2020 To give you a frame of reference, let’s say a small office currently has a 10 Mbps internet connection. A speed upgrade from 10 Mbps to a Gig would be the equivalent of going from driving a car at 1 mph to driving it at 100 mph—quite a difference! Businesses of all sizes and types are expressing interest in Gig internet. Which may leave you wondering, “What can you do with a Gig?” The simple answer is this: You can do whatever your business is doing now—such as downloading and uploading files— but it will get done in seconds instead of minutes, or minutes instead of hours. Gig speeds are a huge timesaver and productivity booster, which is important since time is money. It’s estimated that slow internet connectivity may account for 8% of employee time and inactivity each year. 1 This is inefficient from a cost perspective and also contributes to employee frustration and dissatisfaction. With a Gig, your business can: • Download large files, videos, images, reports, invoices and records more quickly. • Connect more users with more devices. • Process multiple card transactions faster. • Run more cloud-based apps, services and backups simultaneously. But it’s not only about moving files faster. It’s also about enhancing performance. Gig internet from All West improves the quality of streaming video by vastly reducing buffering and opens the door to the optimal use of real-time collaboration tools like Skype, Dropbox, Trello, Google Sheets and more. We’ve listed what businesses can do with a Gig. Now let’s think about what communities can do. This level of internet speed can help attract new businesses to a community and enable existing businesses to enhance their performance. In addition, it can lay the groundwork for more telehealth services, online education and other online resources. All West offers a range of internet speeds to meet your requirements today and tomorrow. Whenever you’re ready for a Gig, we’ll be ready to provide it. To learn how a Gig can give you an edge over your compe- tition and create happier customers and employees, call us at 877.584.1581. 1 www.atlantech.net/blog/gigabit-internet-5-surprising-business-benefits Get Ready to Go Big and Go Gig All West offers internet speeds up to a Gig over fiber and coax, giving customers in our service area access to some of the fastest internet in the nation. Just how fast is that? An internet speed of a Gig (or Gigabit per second) is equal to 1,000 Mbps (or Megabits per second). 0 bits per second 15M 25M 50M 100M 150M 250M 1000M 500M 1M