The People Hub is Flamingo's internal home for the team. Every employee can browse the team roster, open a colleague's “Who Am I” profile, share what they shipped each month, and keep their own profile up to date. Managers additionally see performance insights built on the SPACE framework.

Five covers almost every small office: staff, guest, printers and IoT, voice, and management. Add a sixth for servers if anything stays on-premises. Each is a VLAN on the switch and a /24 subnet on the firewall, with default deny between them and specific allowed flows written down.

For 1 Gbps to the desk, yes, to the full 100 meters. Cat6 only carries 10 Gbps to 55 meters, while Cat6A carries it the full 100 meters under ANSI/TIA-568.2-D. Because cabling outlives every device it connects and the labor is the main cost, pull Cat6A to every desk, access point and camera.

You need a business firewall. The ISP gateway routes, but it cannot enforce default-deny rules between VLANs, terminate VPN with MFA, or keep its management page off the internet. Put the provider box in bridge mode and let the firewall own the public IP, the DHCP scopes and DNS.

Plan roughly one ceiling-mounted access point per 1,000 to 1,500 square feet of open office, closer together where walls are concrete or rooms are dense with people. Count by floor area and walls, not by headcount, and wire every AP to the PoE switch rather than relying on wireless mesh backhaul.

It is the total power a switch can supply across all its ports, which is almost always less than ports times the per-port maximum. Add up the device draws at their IEEE class: 802.3af phones at 12.95 W, 802.3at access points and cameras at 25.5 W, 802.3bt devices at 51 W or 71.3 W. Add 20% headroom and buy a switch whose total budget exceeds that figure.

Yes, because a single circuit is the one failure that stops all work. The cheapest second path is a 5G or LTE router on a different carrier plugged into the firewall's second WAN port. It only counts if it has been tested, so pull the primary cable once a quarter and confirm phones and calls survive the failover.

An assessment builds the picture: inventory, exposure, performance and a prioritised list of what to change. An audit measures the network against a defined standard or policy and produces pass/fail evidence for a regulator, insurer or board. Assessments usually come first, and audits reuse their inventory.

No. RFC 854 defines no encryption, so the username, the password and the whole session cross the network as readable text. Use SSH for logins and keep any remaining Telnet listener on an isolated segment.

TCP port 23 by default, which is why port scanners label anything answering there as Telnet. The client can connect to any port, and that is the only reason technicians still use it: to see whether a service answers.