Telephone Interconnect Company Takes Advantage of Skyway Hosted Firewall

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 ...

4 Things to Consider when Designing your Next-Gen Communications Infrastructure

Changing your voice communications infrastructure means thinking about things way beyond voice: network infrastructure, bandwidth, video conferencing, messaging and hardware to name a few. Over the years I’ve observed businesses often avoid big changes until events force their hand. An office move; expansion; new management; old gear that breaks a little too often to fix. ...

How to prevent outgoing email getting tagged as Spam

03. April 2012 Internet Support 1
We’ve had a few questions raised recently about the issue of outgoing email being tagged as Spam. I thought it would be both fun and interesting to discuss the topic in this month’s blog post. I thought I might also touch on a few ideas to make your email less “Spammy”- looking. A message tagged ...

Skyway West Recommended March 25th to April 1st

Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, kind of a Digg-lite for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think like we do (internet trends, internet privacy, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want ...

Skyway West, High Speed Business Internet Specialists

22. March 2012 Internet Services 0
Skyway West is a full service ISP, delivering services across Canada, with a main focus in BC and Alberta. All of our services connect to a Multi-Peered, Multi-Homed network, including direct connectivity to Telus (Western Canada), Bell (Eastern Canada), BC Net, Level3 (#1 U.S. carrier) and NTT ( 3rd largest carrier in the world). We ...

Infographic: Protect Yourself Online

14. March 2012 Internet Security 0
Great Infographic from the folks at FrugalDad. With most websites collecting user data, every person with a computer should be thinking about how to protect their sensitive information. The graphic includes some troubling statistics about just how much personally identifiable information is floating around unprotected on the Internet. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon recently found they ...