Internet
Design files and cutting programs come in over the shop connection.
The customer's drawings were on an open network
By the Telecom Agency advisory team
A fabrication shop builds from customers' designs, some of them covered by confidentiality agreements. The same Wi-Fi password has been on the whiteboard for six years, and every visitor's phone joins the network the drawings live on.
What a consultant changes
An advisor separates the shop into the networks it should always have had: one for the business, one for machines, one for guests. Security is sourced alongside the internet service, from providers compared on capability and price. A consultant can do that because the advice is not tied to selling one box.
How Telecom Agency shops the market for welders and fabricators
- The advice
- An advisor recommends separate networks for the office, the machines and visitors, and compares security providers on how they protect customer drawings, alongside internet service with room for large design files.
- The price
- Internet and security are quoted together from several suppliers. The advisor explains which features are required by customer agreements and which are optional, so you pay for what is needed.
- The service
- As customers send new security questionnaires, the advisor helps answer the parts about the network and arranges changes where the answers fall short.
- No fee to you: providers pay the advisor
- Every provider compared, none favoured
- One contact for every carrier
- Reviews and support after the install
An illustrative scenario based on situations common among welders and fabricators. It does not describe a specific client.
