Working From Home? Here's What You Need Beyond Super-Fast Wi-Fi

pcmag.com:

These days, everyone wants lightning-fast internet connections. That’s why PCMag’s annual List of Fastest ISPs is so popular. In an age where many companies let you work from anywhere, the only thing holding you back from conferencing in from the beach or the back porch is whether your internet connection can support your Zoom calls.

But guess what? If you’re only focused on speed, you may be missing out on the bigger picture. Think 8K resolution, home network cybersecurity, advanced parental controls, social media monitoring, managed home security, and more—all accessed in the same app you use to manage your Wi-Fi.

The bottom line is that there are benefits other than speed that you should demand from an ISP—especially since the average person now has more than two dozen connected devices(Opens in a new window) always running in the home.

You might assume you need to live in a big city to get those types of services plus lightning-fast speed, but increasingly that’s not the case. Just ask the folks at Calix, a cloud and software company that invested more than $1 billion over the past 11 years, to develop innovation that many small, regional internet service providers are using to build world-class broadband networks. Not only that, but these ISPs are also delivering amazing experiences—from excellent customer support to sophisticated gear and services that rival anything you could get at a big-box store or a consumer brand with a trillion-dollar market cap.

Working with Calix, these local ISPs deliver world-class Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E systems(Opens in a new window) along with critical security services. That’s because Calix gives them the technology and expert support they need to operate like the most sophisticated