Direct Connection for Rendering to Google and AWS’ Cloud Services Film Studios often face a dilemma: they need quick access to massive amounts of computing power for rendering, but only for the time it takes to produce the effects or the film, and don’t want to be stuck with a huge data centre in down ...
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 ...
A new customer recently came to us complaining of a really bad Internet connection with their previous ISP. Their existing ADSL (DSL) service was quite far from the Telus Central Office (or CO) which resulted in a very slow Internet connection. ADSL is distance-sensitive, so the further you are away from the Telus CO, the ...
Many of the network connections Skyway West provisions for customers are based on Telus ADSL. Like all network technologies, the ADSL link introduces latency into the network path. That latency is the result of a number of causes. The single largest cause of latency on Telus ADSL is the data interleave configuration on the DSLAM ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a new 10 Mbps Burstable Fibre Internet service, available throughout most of Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. We received lots of responses, with many asking how a Burstable Fiber service compares to an Internet connection with Guaranteed Bandwidth. Burstable fiber traffic is assigned a lower priority within our network ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...