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19 July 2020How your eCommerce will benefit from extra speed and stability provided by 10gbps
27 July 2020For your eCommerce to remain attractive to new customers and retain the existing ones, you need more than just an internet connection that “works.” You have to choose an option that supports your eCommerce in all growth phases within a dynamic digital world. For this reason, adopting 10G is the best decision to boost your eCommerce productivity and profitability.
ECommerce is increasingly becoming a dominant sector of the world economy as more businesses digitize. As a result, all business aspects, including marketing, sales, and service support, depend on a fast and reliable internet connection. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, the network traffic tripled between 2015 to 2019, and it is expected that the traffic will only keep growing. This shows a significant growth potential and increased reliance on the internet in all aspects of the business.
What you need to know about 10G
Deciding on the Cloud and Hosting company to purchase from the 10G package is crucial, mainly because most companies do not offer this option and because a decision between dedicated servers and cloud servers have to be made. With TDWS, eCommerce companies can upgrade to 10G conveniently by hosting their sites on dedicated servers or cloud servers. TDWS cloud servers and 10G offers much-enhanced scalability and all other resources available for dedicated servers, making it preferred among eCommerce with strategic plans of scaling up.
10gbps dedicated servers have a network card that has the capability of transferring 10 Gigabits per second. The dedicated servers are connected to the public internet via switches, cables, and routers. To offer perspective on the speed, with a 10gbps internet connection, you can download 2GB Data in 1 second or 1TB in only 15 minutes. This improves all business aspects, including user experience and marketing efforts.
How you migrate to 10gbps is essential, to ensure that you control cost and enjoy the maximum benefits, an overall upgrade of the network is not required. It would be best if you started with only core switches used to connect the access switches and those that connect servers and NAS. In some instances, where redundancy and extra performance is required, then more switches can be added.
Importance of 10G for eCommerce companies.
Latency
This is the delays occurring within processing data between internet connection. High latency has numerous effects for an eCommerce, including, low search engine ranking, reduce conversion rates, and poor brand image. Upgrading to 10G eliminates the most issue with latency, thus boosting user experience. With 10G, clients can upload video or high definition content with ease and very fast. Elimination of latency improves productivity among employees, improved quality VOIP, and improved ability to cloud-store data by downloading or uploading the data with extreme speed.
Increased profitability
The primary motive of making any investment in your business is boosting profitability. 10G is crucial and effective in the continued profitability of your eCommerce. It achieves this by maximizing an eCommerce productivity and increasing search engine ranking. By reducing latency, eCommerce employees can service a large number of customers instantaneously. This boosts market share and profitability. In addition, 10G increases the site’s speed, which improves the search engine ranking. This boosts lead generation, which, in turn, increases the eCommerce profitability.
Improved user experience and customers’ satisfaction
Online customers are not patient and will leave a website that is not fast enough in seconds. In fact, according to Google, 53% of customers will leave and never come back to a site that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Therefore, the speed offered by 10G is essential to ensuring your customers are satisfied, and their experiences interacting with your website are enhanced. This will increase both your market share and revenue.
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Simple Virtualization
10-gigabit equipment offers sufficient bandwidth that eliminates the need for an on-site server and storage through the use of virtualized network apps and distributed SANs (Storage Area Networks). The use of cloud servers and 10G also makes plans for future expansion of eCommerce easier since virtual cloud servers are accessible conveniently within a vast geographic area.
Additionally, 10G virtualized network ensures rack space efficiency. Few pieces of 10G can easily replace a full closet of Ethernet or gigabit Ethernet hardware. This reduces complexity and physical footprint, which reduces the potential of failure and maintenance cost and time. Hence, 10G means more space available for other business activities and an overall reduction in power consumption.
Improved scalability
while most network connectivity options have limited ability to scale upwards due to the slowdowns caused by the peak traffic downtime and addition of hardware. Scalability is a central focus of using 10G. Upgrading to 10G is not only about the present needs for your eCommerce. It’s also meant to be a futurist investment that will benefit your company as it experiences growth and evolution. Upgrading to 10G means that your company has a great room for expansion while maintaining optimum performance levels today.
Reliability
In 2020, access to the internet is the lifeblood of most businesses. Internet slowdown, especially in high traffic hours, means that business emails are not accessed. Companies using the VOIP telephony system cannot make or receive calls, and clients cannot communicate with the business. This can have considerable impacts on your business’s productivity and profitability at the time of internet downtime. 10G offers internet connection speed that is more than sufficient even when the traffic is highest. This makes 10G reliable for eCommerce companies that expect to grow their market share and experience increased traffic on their websites.
Conclusion
As the volume of online business rapidly grows, the need for internet speed and reliability is overwhelming if your eCommerce is to flourish. 10G network option offered by TDWS has the capacity to help your business avoid internet downtime during peak overs and is accommodative of your expansion plans. Thus, it is a worthwhile partner as your eCommerce grows and evolves. 10G benefits are not limited to speed but also ensures simple Virtualization and reduced latency, which in turn improves user experience, customers’ satisfaction, and profitability.