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. ...
Recently I spoke with an I.T. administrator who manages a Wide Area Network with locations throughout BC and Alberta. He explained that he uses both Telus for ADSL and Shaw for Cable, because management prefers to deal with “the big boys”. While it is true that Skyway West is smaller in size, there are services that ...
Engineering company sharing large files in Canada & Asia takes advantage of Skyway’s multiple WAN service offerings: Fibre at head office; cable, ADSL at branches. The Skyway West solution includes Policy Routing, QoS and Failover and comes with significant savings over the large telcos’ proposals. ________________________________________ Earlier this week I met with an Engineering firm ...
Recently I was working with a new customer whose Calgary business was looking for an E10 Fibre internet connection. Unfortunately, the install for Fibre was cost-prohibitive: we could deliver a Full Duplex Fibre service, but the $15,000 cost to bring Fibre into their building from the street exceeded their budget. Because of their location, they ...
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 ...
For Skyway West, the perfect customer is any business with multiple locations and remote users, with a Head Office in BC or Alberta. We are starting a campaign to reach I.T. Administrators who manage this kind of Wide Area Network. Please visit WideAreaNetwork.info, where we will present a series of short, on-demand PowerPoint presentations, starting with ...
“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 ...
