User Experience at the Heart of beem
Is there a difference when you access the internet or intranet with or without beemNet in between?
Technically, yes, there is a measurable difference in throughput, bandwidth, and latency. However, in most cases, users should not notice any impact on their day-to-day experience.
Ultimately, what truly matters is the user experience—how users perceive the performance and responsiveness of a business app, website, or mobile app. This experience is shaped by several factors, such as the specific device being used and the network connection.
Why beem feels snappy
... even if speed tests say otherwise.
When people run a speed test, they often expect it to reveal how “fast” their internet connection is. Where in reality, these tests only measure the maximum possible data transfer rate between your device and a test server, usually under ideal conditions. But this doesn’t reflect how your business applications perform in real-world scenarios.
Think of it like testing a car’s top speed on an empty highway. It tells you something—but not how the car handles in city traffic, on winding mountain roads, or during rush hour. Similarly, speed tests don’t account for the many variables that affect your day-to-day digital experience, such as app behavior, network congestion, or device performance.
In the real world, what matters more than raw speed is how responsive and reliable your connection feels when using business tools like email, business software, or video conferencing. These applications typically use only a small fraction of your available bandwidth—often just 0.5 to 2 Mbps per user. Even high-quality video calls or 4K streaming rarely need more than 25 Mbps. So, if your speed test shows 100 Mbps or more, that’s already far beyond what most applications require. Most business applications don’t need a constant speed of 100 Mbps or more per user. That would be too expensive and usually not technically necessary either. Applications like for Human Resource Management (HRM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), accounting, and others typically use only 0.5 to 2 Mbps per user, depending on how they’re used and how complex the data is. Higher speeds are mainly useful temporarily when downloading or uploading large files. These are use cases when the likelihood increases that the peak capacity can be saturated for several seconds or even minutes.
What truly impacts the user experience is latency, the time it takes for data to travel between your device and the server, and how stable that connection is. If latency is high or inconsistent (what’s called “jitter”), even a fast connection can feel slow or unreliable. That’s why beemNet prioritizes optimizing latency, reliability, and security, rather than just chasing higher bandwidth numbers.
Moreover, business applications often adapt to the available network quality. For example, Microsoft Teams or video streaming services automatically adjust their quality based on your connection. This means that even if your bandwidth is temporarily lower, the application still works—just with reduced quality, which you might not even notice.
In short, speed tests can give a rough idea of your connection’s potential, but they don’t tell the full story. For business users, what really matters is how quickly and reliably your applications respond, and that depends more on smart network design, low latency, and consistent performance than on headline bandwidth numbers.
beemNet is built for Business-Critical Connectivity
beem emphasizes business resiliency, which is essential for sustainable business operations, over high bandwidths that are less frequently needed for business purposes.
beem is especially useful for business-critical applications like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, SAP, Salesforce, and other business software. These use cases require stable, highly secure, low-latency connections to work well, and beemNet and the beem app are optimized to support them.
Whether you’re using a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, beem delivers the same high-quality experience. It’s built to support both mobile and wireline networks, so you can move between locations and devices without noticing a difference.