Thank you, Donald Rumsfeld

06. October 2011 Internet Services 0
“We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.  But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” One of my favourite quotes is from former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.  It’s interesting that he was ...

8 Great reasons for combining ADSL and Cable Internet Access

27. September 2011 Internet Services 1
Combining Cable and ADSL Internet access makes for an easy business decision. The obvious reason is to add Internet redundancy because even a short outage can be costly. Email doesn’t arrive, orders are lost, staff are agitated. For most companies, the costs of lost productivity are much higher than paying the $3/day – the price ...

New 10 Mbps Burstable Fibre Internet Service

22. September 2011 Internet Services 0
For about the same cost as a 1.5 Mbps T1 service, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton businesses can take advantage of a new Full-Duplex 10 Mbps Burstable Fibre Service.  This 10 Mbps service is only $695 per month, and for a limited time we will offer a FREE installation, based on a 3-year term. Fibre (or, ...

Skyway West Fibre Internet Services for Business

08. September 2011 Internet Services 0
As more and more applications are being accessed by remote users, the Internet connection is replacing the telephone line as the most important connection to the outside world.  Many businesses are running Voice over IP, while at the same time connecting remote users to applications like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, CRM and ERP systems.  Although ...

T1 Xstream Enhanced gives Consistent Affordable Network Uptime

25. August 2011 Internet Services 0
Have you seen our Enhanced version of T1 Xstream? This new networking technology allows organizations to create highly-redundant networks using connections from any combination of carrier connections. Not Load Balancing, It’s Aggregation The system isn’t load balancing, it actually aggregates the connections. If you need an application to run over a highly-reliable and fast connection, ...

Reliability of traditional telephony, with the cost savings and benefits of VoIP

16. August 2011 Internet Services 0
Here is a link to a page on TeloIP’s Voice Quality Solutions page, with important information for any business implementing Voice over IP. TeloIP’s Autonomous Network Aggregation (Ana) system is the power behind our T1 Xstream “Enhanced” service. The Ana system enables voice services with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, and allows business users to converge their voice and data networks. ...

Skyway West is not just ADSL

11. August 2011 Internet Services 0
Although we have many business ADSL customers, Skyway West also delivers Fibre and other Premium Internet Access Services across Canada. We provide a 10, 100 or 1000 Mbps Full Duplex ethernet port and you choose from speeds ranging from 1 Mbps to 200 Mbps. These speeds are guaranteed. Premium Services are symmetrical, uploading at the same speed they ...

Importance of Low Latency Internet Connection

I received a call today from a Vancouver Systems Integrator, one of our value-added partners. The customer, whose main office was in Victoria, also had branch locations in Toronto and Vancouver. They also had some of their critical applications hosted on servers located in a Vancouver Co-location facility. The problem was in their Toronto office, ...

How Big is Big? How Fast is Fast?

One of the best days of my life was flying over the Grand Canyon in a small Cessna.  You’ve  seen pictures or film of the Grand Canyon, but seeing it up close from a low flying plane is a whole different experience, one I heartily recommend  adding to your list of things to do. Hoover Dam ...

More than just Internet Bandwidth

Skyway West will soon be rolling out a 15.0 Mbps ADSL service for BC and Alberta businesses.  However we are finding that just increasing the speed of your Internet connection will not always increase the performance of business applications. For example, businesses are adding SIP trunking and unlike web surfing, applications like Voice over IP ...