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. ...
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 ...
Guest post by Todd Davis from TeloIP (originally posted on TeloIP blog on on 11/10/14 3:32 PM To truly optimize WAN Performance we need to take a holistic approach Optimize: an act, process or methodology of making something as fully functional or effective as possible Business expectations for network performance have evolved rapidly in the past decade, ...
Your company just leased new office space and YOU are in charge of ensuring the internal computer and telephone wiring is in-place and working on move in day. In a nutshell, these are the steps you need to take: choose the right cable test the cable make a detailed floor plan and tag and clearly ...
In part one of this series I discussed network congestion inside a private network and in part two, congestion across the Internet. In this month’s installment I will discuss packet loss and the impact this has on network performance. What is “packet loss”? A packet is, to put it simply, an envelope of data. Let’s ...
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 ...
Last month I wrote about how to test for and correct congestion on your local area network. Our next step in trying to determine where congestion might lie is to look outside your local network and use traceroute tools to find congestion points on the Internet. To do this we’ll use a few software tools which are ...
This week, I thought I’d point out some of the things we do at Skyway West Business Internet Services to separate us from Telus, Shaw and the “rest of the pack”. For more info, feel free to text me at 602-262-5262, or email rmcnulty@skywaywest.com. – Robert Weighing the differences between high speed Internet providers is ...
A more reliable high speed Internet connection with increased bandwidth. With Skyway West’s T1 Xstream, you can combine connections from multiple network providers like Telus, Allstream and Shaw into a single service that is both faster and more reliable. Combine Skyway or Telus ADSL, Shaw cable and fixed wireless from different providers, and reduce the risk ...
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 ...
