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SOGEA. So what? Telecoms Changes You Need To Know Techcess: embracing technology and IT support for success in your business
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SoGEA. So what? mark from m3 Networks talks you through the telecoms changes you need to know What is SoGEA? Well, that is just one of the many questions Mark from m3 Networks answers in this episode of the Techcess technology podcast.
Here's a quick spoiler - it stands for "Single Order Generic Ethernet Access"
If you enjoyed our previous telephony themed episode all about VoIP -
(this one: https://www.techcesspodcast.com/how-can-i-improve-my-chances-of-business-techcess-with-a-voip-system-techcess-m3-networks)
then you'll definitely get a kick out of this one as it takes us way more in depth on the telecoms changes that are coming as part of the big switch off, gearing up towards Digital Britain in 2025.
In fact, if you've been trying to get your boss to switch over to VoIP, then this is the episode to get him to listen to!
SoGEA - a great option for any business that wants to stay ahead of the inevitable telecoms PSTN switch off As Mark explains, the big switch off is definitely happening, no matter what. The only variable is what your business plans for anticipating it.
In this episode you'll learn:
What is SoGEA? Why are we talking about SoGEA now? BT are going to stop selling the known products What kind of speeds can you get with SoGEA? Have you already made the switch to SoGEA? What to do if you want to learn more about SoGEA!
Click this is you're hard of hearing and want to just download and read the episode as a PDF:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techcess/Techess_53_SoGEA_So_What.pdf
In an area with restricted data? Click this for a smaller sized version of the episode.
Episode transcript preview You would have probably already seen the link to the PDF above.
Here's a very quick sneak preview of that transcript of episode 53
"Welcome to the Techcess Podcast. Now, in today's episode, I'm going to be telling you everything that you need to know about SoGEA. Now, SoGEA or S.O.G.E.A, is a new technology that has come into the telecoms market. Now, I always promise here in the show to never talk about technical stuff or use a lot of acronyms and try and make everything that I talk about easily and accessible for everyone to understand.
What does SoGEA stand for?
So, first of all, what does SoGEA even stand for? Right? So let's get the acronym out of the way. So it stands for Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. And basically what it is, it's a new way of providing broadband access to homes and businesses. Now, typically in the past, you have ordered a line and then had broadband enabled on that line, so there would have been a normal voice phone line and then broadband would be added onto it. But of course, over the years, as more people have relied on VoIP and the use of mobiles even in business, the use of a landline number that's on that broadband circuit has faded away. So nowadays, so many people just have broadband just for internet access. Like, for example, here at home, we have a typical broadband line with fibre to the cabinet service, but we have a line with that service enabled on it, right? And there's a phone number, but we never use that phone number. In fact, we don't even...
SoGEA. So what? mark from m3 Networks talks you through the telecoms changes you need to know What is SoGEA? Well, that is just one of the many questions Mark from m3 Networks answers in this episode of the Techcess technology podcast.
Here's a quick spoiler - it stands for "Single Order Generic Ethernet Access"
If you enjoyed our previous telephony themed episode all about VoIP -
(this one: https://www.techcesspodcast.com/how-can-i-improve-my-chances-of-business-techcess-with-a-voip-system-techcess-m3-networks)
then you'll definitely get a kick out of this one as it takes us way more in depth on the telecoms changes that are coming as part of the big switch off, gearing up towards Digital Britain in 2025.
In fact, if you've been trying to get your boss to switch over to VoIP, then this is the episode to get him to listen to!
SoGEA - a great option for any business that wants to stay ahead of the inevitable telecoms PSTN switch off As Mark explains, the big switch off is definitely happening, no matter what. The only variable is what your business plans for anticipating it.
In this episode you'll learn:
What is SoGEA? Why are we talking about SoGEA now? BT are going to stop selling the known products What kind of speeds can you get with SoGEA? Have you already made the switch to SoGEA? What to do if you want to learn more about SoGEA!
Click this is you're hard of hearing and want to just download and read the episode as a PDF:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/techcess/Techess_53_SoGEA_So_What.pdf
In an area with restricted data? Click this for a smaller sized version of the episode.
Episode transcript preview You would have probably already seen the link to the PDF above.
Here's a very quick sneak preview of that transcript of episode 53
"Welcome to the Techcess Podcast. Now, in today's episode, I'm going to be telling you everything that you need to know about SoGEA. Now, SoGEA or S.O.G.E.A, is a new technology that has come into the telecoms market. Now, I always promise here in the show to never talk about technical stuff or use a lot of acronyms and try and make everything that I talk about easily and accessible for everyone to understand.
What does SoGEA stand for?
So, first of all, what does SoGEA even stand for? Right? So let's get the acronym out of the way. So it stands for Single Order Generic Ethernet Access. And basically what it is, it's a new way of providing broadband access to homes and businesses. Now, typically in the past, you have ordered a line and then had broadband enabled on that line, so there would have been a normal voice phone line and then broadband would be added onto it. But of course, over the years, as more people have relied on VoIP and the use of mobiles even in business, the use of a landline number that's on that broadband circuit has faded away. So nowadays, so many people just have broadband just for internet access. Like, for example, here at home, we have a typical broadband line with fibre to the cabinet service, but we have a line with that service enabled on it, right? And there's a phone number, but we never use that phone number. In fact, we don't even...
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