If you are an I.T. Administrator managing a Wide Area Network, you’ll have a number of factors you’ll want to consider. Three of the biggest: Bandwidth Reliability Cost We’ll admit that installing Fibre at each location, with multiple EVCs (Ethernet Virtual Circuits) over an MPLS network is a great solution for the first two of ...
Skyway West is now accepting orders for High Speed Cable Internet Services. Skyway cable internet services differ from Shaw cable internet services in many important ways. We add value to make cable an enterprise-grade service. Connection to a Multi-homed, Multi-Peered network Block of real Static IPs that will not change. You can also move to ...
A Vancouver Interconnect company that supports IP telephone systems is using a cloud-based firewall to protect their VoIP customers from malicious Internet attacks. Moving their VoIP firewall to the cloud prevents these attacks from reaching the customer’s site and impairing their VoIP service. The MetaLAN Private Network firewall is provided by Skyway West Business Internet ...
“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase Bill Clinton used during the 1992 Presidential Campaign. I often think of it when I hear all the requests we’re getting for more and more speed when companies are searching for business internet services. Most I.T. administrators and System Integrators, however, recognize that it’s not just about speed, ...
Skyway West will soon be accepting orders for our new VDSL 15.0 Mbps high speed business Internet service. Our VDSL or “Very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line” service includes a block of real Static IP Addresses hard-coded unto a proper DSL Router (instead of a modem). And like our ADSL service, it runs over a multi-homed routed ...
Last week the CRTC announced its long-awaited decision on the rates Telus and other large providers can charge for wholesale high speed ADSL services sold to independent ISPs like Skyway West. While we’re happy that the decision effectively rejected Bell’s request to charge independents based on GB usage, it also unfortunately has the effect of ...
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 ...
Yes, voice and data convergence was introduced back in the 80’s. ISDN (“Integrated Services Digital Network”, but some of its more unflattering nicknames included “It Still Does Nothing” or “I See Dollars Now “) was a common variant touted by most major telecom companies. But here we are 25 years later and we still have a ...
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 ...
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, ...
