• New resource helps business buyers evaluate flexible capacity alongside service commitments, site feasibility, and resilient network design.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct 01, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — SourceNet today published updated guidance for organizations evaluating dedicated internet access as enterprise connectivity options become more flexible and application demands become less predictable.

The guidance follows Lumen’s September 21 launch of Lumen Intelligent Internet, an enterprise connectivity offering that Lumen says combines on-demand bandwidth, digital controls, predictable-cost options, and capacity scaling up to 100 Gbps at more than 10 million U.S. business locations.

“Flexible capacity can be valuable, especially when cloud and AI workloads create uneven demand,” said Sam Sapp, founder of SourceNet. “But flexibility does not remove the need to understand what the site requires. Buyers still need to examine committed capacity, service-level terms, installation requirements, routing, and whether their backup path can fail independently of the primary circuit.”

SourceNet’s Dedicated Internet Access planning guide helps businesses compare connectivity options based on operating requirements rather than headline speeds alone. The resource outlines four areas organizations should evaluate before selecting an internet strategy:

• Bandwidth and concurrency requirements for cloud, voice, video, uploads, and public-facing services
• Service-level commitments for availability, latency, jitter, packet loss, restoration, and escalation
• Physical and carrier diversity for backup connectivity
• Address-level availability, building access, construction, and installation timing

Lumen is among the providers SourceNet can source as part of its multi-provider comparison process. Provider availability, service terms, and deployment options vary by location and business requirements.

“DIA is not automatically the right answer for every office,” Sapp said. “The practical goal is to identify the sites where committed service and stronger resilience materially reduce operational risk, then compare the provider paths that can actually serve those locations.”

For more information and SourceNet’s dedicated internet access planning guidance, visit https://sourcenet.net/dedicated-internet-access/.

About SourceNet

SourceNet helps U.S. businesses compare voice and connectivity options across relevant providers. Its process considers locations, applications, bandwidth needs, timelines, and provider availability to create a practical shortlist based on each business’s requirements.

• Clayton Fields is formalizing a rule he already follows in his own work: any AI tool he recommends to a business has to come with a plain-language explanation of what it does and why it fits, before it gets a name or a demo.

The policy

Woodstock, Georgia, Oct 01, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Clayton Fields, a go to market expert based in Woodstock, Georgia, has spent the last ten years bringing artificial intelligence enabled solutions to market through security software and services startups. That work has put him in front of a lot of companies trying to decide what to adopt and what to skip.

He is now stating it as a standing rule for how he approaches those conversations: no AI recommendation goes on the table until the business problem is written down in plain language, and the fit between that problem and the tool is spelled out the same way.

“If I can’t explain why a tool fits in a sentence a non-technical person understands, I haven’t done the work yet,” Fields said. “That’s on me, not on them.”

Why he is naming it now

Fields spent almost ten years in commercial sales at a large technology company, working as a subject matter expert across client services, infrastructure, storage, and business applications. He describes that period as teaching him how much technical language gets used to skip past a real explanation.

Moving into startups changed the stakes. Smaller companies do not have the staff to absorb a bad AI purchase and quietly work around it. A wrong recommendation costs them time and money they do not have to spare.

“A polished pitch isn’t the same as a clear reason,” Fields said. “I’d rather give someone a plain answer they can push back on than a smooth one they can’t.”

How the policy works in practice

Fields breaks the rule into three steps he applies before any recommendation leaves his mouth.

Name the problem without naming a tool. He asks a business to describe what is going wrong in their own words first. If the answer only makes sense once a product name is attached, the problem has not been defined yet.

Write the fit in one sentence. Once the problem is clear, Fields explains why a given tool matches it, in a sentence he could say to someone outside the industry. If it takes a paragraph, he treats that as a sign the fit is weak.

Leave out anything that only sounds impressive. Fields said he drops features, integrations, or claims that do not connect directly to the stated problem, even when they are genuinely strong parts of a product.

“None of this is about slowing things down,” Fields said. “It’s about not letting momentum stand in for reasoning.”

Where this comes from

Fields’ early work history includes landscaping, retail, and restaurant front of house before he moved into technology sales through college. He has said that stretch taught him to notice when an explanation is built for the person giving it rather than the person receiving it.

He holds a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration degree from a major university, earned with honors, and has carried the habit of writing things down plainly into how he now works with startups building AI enabled products.

Fields said he plans to apply the same standard to his own writing and public commentary on AI adoption going forward. Any tool or approach he discusses publicly will get the same plain-language test he applies with clients.

“I don’t want to be another voice adding noise about AI,” Fields said. “If I can’t make the case in plain terms, I’d rather stay quiet on that one.”

What businesses can expect

Fields said companies working with him should expect to be asked to explain their problem before any product conversation starts. He said he will also put the reasoning in writing, not just in a meeting, so it can be checked later against what the tool actually delivers.

“If the reasoning doesn’t hold up six months in, I want that to be visible,” Fields said. “Not buried in a slide from a demo nobody remembers.”

About Clayton Fields

Clayton Fields is a go to market expert based in Woodstock, Georgia. He spent almost ten years in commercial sales at a large technology company before moving into security software and services startups, where he has spent the last decade bringing artificial intelligence enabled solutions to market. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration degree from a major university, earned with honors, and volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.

• Dr. Michael Omidi, a Beverly Hills facial and body plastic surgeon, is committing ongoing charitable contributions to the ASPCA to support animal rescue and rehabilitation work.

A commitment outside the operating room

California, USA, Oct 01, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Dr. Michael Omidi has practiced as a facial and body plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills since 2005. Most of what the public knows about him comes from his surgical work: rhinoplasty, breast surgery, body contouring, and the Mommy Makeover procedures he performs for patients across Southern California.

Less visible is the time he spends on causes that have nothing to do with his practice. Dr. Omidi has made recent charitable contributions to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and he is now formalizing that support as a standing commitment rather than a one-time gift.

Why the ASPCA

Dr. Omidi did not grow up around a formal animal welfare organization. His interest in the ASPCA’s work came later, from watching how the same instincts that drive good patient care, attention to suffering, and a willingness to act on it, apply just as well outside medicine.

“You spend a career treating people who are in pain and trying to help them get better,” Dr. Omidi said. “It is hard to see that kind of need in animals and decide it is somebody else’s problem.”

The ASPCA works on rescue, rehabilitation, and reducing animal abuse. Dr. Omidi’s contributions go toward that general mission rather than a single program, which he says reflects how the organization operates.

What the commitment covers

The pledge has three parts:

Recurring financial support. Dr. Omidi will continue making charitable contributions to the ASPCA on an ongoing basis, rather than treating his recent gifts as isolated.

Public acknowledgment. Dr. Omidi is naming the ASPCA specifically, rather than folding the giving into a general philanthropy statement, so patients and colleagues know where the support goes.

No overlap with his medical missions. Dr. Omidi separately serves as Head of Operations for Hope, leading medical and surgical missions to Vietnam, Colombia, and the Philippines that treat indigent patients with congenital deformities, burns, and cancers. He is keeping that work distinct from the ASPCA commitment rather than presenting one as a substitute for the other.

“These are different problems,” Dr. Omidi said. “One is about people who cannot get access to surgery they need. The other is about animals who cannot advocate for themselves at all. Both deserve attention on their own terms.”

How this fits the rest of his work

Dr. Omidi has built his surgical reputation on a fairly narrow philosophy: only take on procedures where he can consistently deliver the best outcome, whether that is a primary rhinoplasty or a complex revision case. He applies a similar logic to his charitable choices. Rather than spreading contributions across many causes, he has picked a small number, medical missions through Hope and now a standing commitment to the ASPCA, and stayed with them.

“I would rather be consistent about a few things than scattered across a lot of them,” he said. “That is true in surgery and it is true in giving.”

What comes next

Dr. Omidi plans to keep the ASPCA contributions running alongside his surgical mission work, without treating either as finished. He is not announcing a specific dollar figure or a fundraising campaign. The commitment is simpler than that: continued, named support for an organization whose work he has already backed, made explicit rather than incidental.

For a surgeon whose public identity is built almost entirely around precision, technique, and patient outcomes, the announcement is a small but deliberate signal that his attention extends past the practice on Beverly Hills.

To read more, visit the website here.

About Dr. Michael Omidi

Dr. Michael Omidi is a double board-certified facial and body plastic surgeon based in Beverly Hills, California. He has practiced there since 2005, specializing in primary and revision rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, breast surgery, body contouring, and Mommy Makeover procedures. He is the developer of the Mannequin Breast Lift and Designed Rhinoplasty, and serves as Head of Operations for Hope, leading medical and surgical missions to Vietnam, Colombia, and the Philippines.

• Matthew Stiles, Channel Sales Director at Zero Networks, brings years of experience in technology and cybersecurity sales to conversations about how businesses evaluate security technology.

Start With the Problem

Florida, USA, Oct 01, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — When a business is considering a new cybersecurity tool, the technology itself can quickly become the focus of the conversation. Features, capabilities, integrations, and product demonstrations can all be useful, but they do not necessarily answer the most important question: What problem is the business actually trying to solve?

For Matthew Stiles, that question is worth considering before getting too far into the technology.

Stiles brings extensive experience in technology sales and a strong understanding of the cybersecurity industry to his current role at Zero Networks. His professional focus includes cybersecurity technology and data center technology, areas that continue to evolve as businesses adapt to new technology and security challenges.

Starting with the problem helps put a technology decision into context. A business should understand what it needs to improve before deciding which type of tool might address that need.

How Will It Fit With Existing Technology?

Cybersecurity rarely exists as a single system. Businesses rely on multiple technologies and processes, which means a new tool has to make sense within the environment that is already in place.

That makes compatibility an important consideration.

Before moving forward with a new technology, it is worth understanding how it will fit with existing systems and workflows. A tool may have strong capabilities, but those capabilities are less useful if implementing it creates unnecessary complications for the organization.

There is also a practical question of whether a new solution adds something meaningful or simply duplicates capabilities that the business already has.

Those are not always easy questions to answer from a product demonstration alone.

Who Will Be Using It?

The people making a technology decision are not always the same people who will use the technology every day. That difference can matter.

Executives may be focused on business risk, cost, and the overall value of an investment. Technical teams may be more concerned with how a system works in practice and how it fits into their existing responsibilities.

Both perspectives are important.

A cybersecurity tool has to make sense from a business standpoint, but it also needs to be practical for the people responsible for working with it. Understanding those different perspectives can help a company make a more informed decision.

What Does Implementation Look Like?

Buying a technology solution is only one part of the process. A business also has to consider what happens after the purchase.

Implementation can involve time, planning, training, and changes to existing processes. Those factors can be easy to overlook when the focus is primarily on what a product can do.

This is one reason it is useful to ask questions about implementation early. How long will the process take? What resources will the business need? What kind of training will employees require? Will existing workflows need to change?

The answers can help a business understand the actual commitment involved rather than looking only at the purchase price.

What Happens After the Purchase?

Another consideration is what kind of support a company will receive after adopting a new technology.

Technology decisions are long-term decisions. A business is not simply buying a product and walking away. There may be questions during implementation, adjustments as the organization changes, or new needs that develop over time.

Understanding the available support and the vendor-customer relationship can therefore be as important as understanding the product itself.

Looking Beyond the Feature List

Technology companies naturally focus on what their products can do. That information matters, but it is only part of the decision.

For Stiles, the broader business context is important when thinking about cybersecurity technology. A company needs to consider its goals, its existing environment, the people who will use the solution, and the resources required to put it into practice.

That can lead to a more useful conversation than simply comparing feature lists.

There may not be one cybersecurity solution that makes sense for every business. Different organizations have different needs, priorities, and resources. The right questions can help make those differences clearer.

Making a More Informed Technology Decision

Stiles brings extensive experience in technology sales and cybersecurity to his current role at Zero Networks. His experience has given him a strong understanding of the technology industry and the conversations businesses have when evaluating cybersecurity solutions.

Cybersecurity is an area where those decisions can carry significant importance. Businesses need to understand what they are trying to accomplish and how a potential solution fits into the larger organization.

Before buying a cybersecurity tool, asking questions about the problem, existing technology, users, implementation, and ongoing support can help create a clearer picture of what the decision actually involves.

The goal is not simply to find a tool with an impressive list of features. It is to understand whether the technology makes sense for the business using it.

To read more, visit the website here.

About Matthew Stiles

Matthew Stiles is a Channel Sales Director at Zero Networks based in Bonita Springs, Florida. His career includes sales experience at NetApp, Palo Alto Networks, Tanium, Abnormal AI, and Zero Networks. His professional focus includes cybersecurity technology and data center technology.

Stiles earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Outside of his professional work, he enjoys tennis, golf, basketball, fly fishing, and running, and has also been involved in music.

• The company links its Miami operations to a month-long mobility initiative, targeting a market shaped by tourism, consumer spending and diverse everyday travel needs.

MIAMI, Florida, Oct 01, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Carziqo says its UR-NX series autonomous ride-hailing vehicles are now operating in designated areas of Miami, bringing the company’s mobility offering to a major visitor and consumer market during the October Carziqo Future Mobility Festival.

The development connects a city-level operating initiative with a broader company message about intelligent transportation and greener urban journeys. For Carziqo, Miami offers an opportunity to develop its service in a market where tourism, business activity and everyday travel intersect—and where convenience is an important part of the customer experience.

The company describes its October festival as a month-long celebration guided by the theme: “Advancing greener mobility through intelligent technology, connecting people to more convenient everyday journeys and a more sustainable urban future.”

Its Miami operations give that theme a practical business focus. The UR-NX deployment forms part of Carziqo’s stated strategy of connecting autonomous vehicle technology with identifiable passenger needs in commercially significant urban markets.

Miami’s wider visitor economy provides context for that strategy. According to the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, Greater Miami and Miami Beach welcomed 28.3 million visitors in 2025. Visitor spending across Miami-Dade County reached $22.7 billion, including expenditure on accommodation, dining, shopping, transportation and entertainment.

Those figures describe the broader regional economy, rather than demand for any individual mobility provider. They nevertheless illustrate the scale and diversity of the market surrounding Carziqo’s operating initiative. For a ride-hailing business, the opportunity lies in serving the journeys that connect different parts of that economy.

A visitor’s day can involve several separate destinations, while residents and workers have recurring travel needs of their own. From a commercial perspective, this mix gives mobility providers a reason to look beyond a single customer segment. It also makes the relationship between service coverage, vehicle availability and actual trip demand particularly important.

Carziqo’s announcement reflects that wider view. The company identifies leisure travelers, residents, professionals and service workers as groups whose travel patterns inform its approach. Its stated ambition is to develop a service that remains relevant beyond a particular event or seasonal occasion.

The UR-NX series operates within designated areas, according to the company. Availability depends on the applicable operating area and conditions, with current service information communicated through official Carziqo channels.

That defined scope is central to understanding the announcement. The business proposition rests on how effectively Carziqo can serve the journeys available within its operating footprint. A substantial consumer market creates a setting for growth; translating that setting into a useful service requires consistent execution.

Carziqo says its priorities include understanding demand, managing vehicle availability, maintaining service quality and learning from actual use. These priorities connect its technology proposition to the day-to-day requirements of running a passenger mobility business.

They also provide a useful framework for assessing the strategic significance of Miami. Vehicle deployment establishes a presence, while the longer-term commercial value depends on whether the service can become a practical choice for repeat journeys. Clear service information and a dependable passenger experience are therefore important to the company’s stated ambitions.

The Future Mobility Festival supplies the brand context for this operating development. Taking place throughout October, the initiative brings Carziqo’s goals for convenience, intelligent technology and sustainability under one theme. The company presents its Miami operations as an expression of those goals during the festival month.

Carziqo’s sustainability message also extends to how fleets are managed. In its announcement, the company highlights vehicle deployment, unnecessary travel between trips, maintenance and matching capacity to demand as areas that require attention. It describes intelligent fleet management as a way to pursue more efficient operations while keeping passenger needs central to service development.

These are operational objectives whose significance lies in implementation. The announcement positions greener mobility as an ongoing direction for the business, with attention to the decisions that shape how vehicles are used.

For readers following Carziqo’s development, the Miami initiative brings together three elements of its strategy: a presence in a substantial consumer market, an emphasis on practical fleet operations and a brand platform intended to explain the purpose behind its technology.

The October festival gives the announcement a timely setting, while the company’s stated ambitions extend beyond the celebration. Carziqo says it intends to continue developing the UR-NX series around actual travel needs and lessons from operations.

With the series now operating in designated areas of Miami, according to Carziqo, the company has tied its festival message to a concrete operating initiative. The next measure of progress will be how that presence develops into a consistent service for the journeys it is positioned to serve.