John Cioffi pretty much invented DSL and has spent most of the last 30 years making your connections better. ASSIA developed CloudCheck, which delivered optimum Wi-Fi experience. It announced this week EQUIPE, which manages employees' WI-Fi and connection reliability.

John writes me:

The work-from-home trend brings significant challenges to residential connectivity and remote collaboration of business teams. SMB and enterprise companies don’t have the same visibility or control over their remote employees' quality of internet connectivity. To help maintain business continuity and work productivity in this new remote-working era, ASSIA invented new ways to measure, monitor, and optimize internet connectivity that targets remote teams’ internet-connection-related productivity.

Equipe also is an o pportunity for IT services to expand to the WFH employees, diagnostics, improve productivity, etc.

One feature that I strongly believe in is the additional connection to 4G wireless. Equipe uses the wireless to provide a better experience when the primary connection is not adequate. The cost of a wireless connection is so low it almost always is a good idea, if only as insurance against downtime.

Important conflict of interest note: I'm on the ASSIA Advisory Board.

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