Microsoft Azure: Extend your on-premise network to a Private Cloud Bypass the public Internet and directly connect to Microsoft Azure Canadian Data Centres with Skyway West. Skyway’s “Software Defined Network” service lets you extend your on-premise networks into a number of Data Centres, including Canadian and U.S. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google’s Cloud Platform. ...
Are you ready for Disaster Recovery? Security and business-continuity planning is essential for corporate IT planning, so forward-thinking customers often ask us about off-site backup and disaster recovery. While Skyway West‘s focus is securely connecting customers to wherever their data is stored, our partners Veeam and Whipcord make it simple to create a comprehensive Availability ...
We are seeing more and more business owners moving away from best-effort Broadband services to low latency Full Duplex Fibre connections. Unlike ADSL and Cable, Fibre is Symmetrical and offers a much more robust connection to the Internet, ideal for applications like Voice and Video. But here’s the challenge, there is usually a very significant ...
If you are taking advantage of VoIP (Voice over IP) for your phone system needs — either SIP trunks connected to an on-premise PBX or a Hosted Phone System “in the cloud” — a good Internet connection is essential to a quality VoIP experience. Unlike email or most web-based applications, voice (and video for that matter) require a very low ...
Is your business taking advantage of Voice over IP? Whether you utilize a Hosted “Phone System as a Service” or connecting your on premise PBX to SIP trunks, you’re going to need a Reliable, Robust Internet connection. VoIP needs Low Latency: There is more to an Internet connection’s speed than just its bandwidth. For example, high ...
Looking to add Failover to your Business Internet service? We are seeing a lot of customers adding a High Speed Wireless LTE connection that can automatically kick-in if your main Internet service fails. The advantage to a Cellular Wireless connection is the high speed at a very low cost. For as little as $30 per ...
Great PUG (Public Cloud User Group) meetup event the other night, held at Robson Communication’s Burnaby BC office. The theme of the event was CLOUD OS, How Operating Systems such as Linux and Windows relate to the Cloud. Paul Turnbull from Red Hat reviewed their operating system and Terence Snijtsheuvel from Softchoice spoke about Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server ...
Skyway West can now deliver a Dedicated Private VLAN to a number of Canadian “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) companies. This could be important if you’re considering off-site Storage, a Disaster Recovery solution or running your business applications in a Private Cloud. Mike Tiernay of Gossamer Threads provided a number of advantages the Cloud offers to both business owners ...
Guest post by Todd Davis and Pat Saavedra from TeloIP (originally posted on TeloIP blog on on 11/19/14 3:32 PM Delivering Next Generation WAN Optimization WAN Optimization is about getting better network performance for less cost. Earlier, we wrote about the challenges of WAN Management and the specific limitations of traditional WAN solutions. Here we explain how Software Controlled Networking (SCN) virtualizes ...
