Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Not all SOHO routers are created equal

It's worth the modest investment to supply teleworkers with a company-provided SOHO router
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Spotlight Story
Not all SOHO routers are created equal

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler
As businesses of all sizes continue to encourage telecommuting for a range of reasons from cost-savings to green initiatives to corporate/public health, the odds are increasingly high that the telecommuter will be accessing the network via a SOHO consumer-grade router of some form. And while this is not an inherently bad idea, this router becomes a part of the greater corporate net. Surprisingly, this also can occasionally introduce some unexpected uncertainty. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Jim Metzler is vice president of Ashton, Metzler & Associates.

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