Thanks to broadband Internet and the cloud, teleworking from home or the road is easier than ever. With the latest cloud-based communications solutions and productivity tools, today’s workers can efficiently engage customers and collaborate with colleagues from any place, at any time. Just about any business, regardless of size or industry, can benefit from teleworking. ...
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 ...
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. ...
Announcement: SKYWAY WEST PARTNERS WITH GENBAND TO PROVIDE HOSTED KANDY™ UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE TO BC AND ALBERTA BUSINESS Genband, a leading provider of real-time communications solutions, and Skyway West, a Western Canadian Business ISP, have partnered to offer Genband Kandy™ to Skyway’s customers across Canada. Kandy™ is a secure multimedia communications and collaboration cloud services ...
Failover is the practice of employing two internet connections. If one connection fails, your internet traffic automatically “fails over” to the second connection. As more businesses move their applications to the Cloud, the need for a reliable Internet connection is more crucial than ever. Depending on your budget (and your location), a Business ADSL, High Speed ...
On September 22nd the CRTC issued a consumer alert warning customers of Télephone Navigata Westel Communications (TNW, and commonly referred to as “Navigata”) that many of them may lose phone and internet service due to a commercial dispute between Navigata and TELUS. The CRTC is suggesting consumers may wish to explore alternative service providers. ...
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 ...
