Spring in Roanoke means many things: it will feel like either winter or summer, and you have a roughly 100% chance of a histamine reaction and surveillance system Spring Cleaning. Ok, we threw that last one in there like you’d already know about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant to you and your business. […]
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How Not to Run Cables
In our decades of work at RCI, we’ve run cables for many jobs, in many buildings, and for many clients. For some, we were hired to run cables; for others, it was an incidental part of the job that was required to make the rest of our equipment work. And in many, we came across cables run by amateurs and other IT companies alike that didn’t […]
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Digital & IP Surveillance and the History of Video
Virtually everyone who’s reading this today can’t imagine a world without video. The only exceptions may be folks who spent their earliest years somewhere without technology, but video has been around for the rest of us as long as we’ve had self-awareness. Given that, since that time, it has changed leading to IP surveillance and […]
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Why IT Experience Matters, Even in New Year – 2025
Happy New Year! This month, we rang in another new year, the 49th since RCI has been in business! After all this time, is anything really new? Well, in the technology world, the answer to that question is always yes. But likewise, one thing that never changes is that IT experience matters. In an ever-changing […]
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Solving and Preventing Your IT Problems
With every bit of human knowledge (and what we’ll politely call lack thereof) available from a typed query or “hey, Siri,” it’s easy to think the need for experts to help us with our problems is now behind us. But anyone who’s followed a recipe to the letter only to come out with something inedible […]
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