At Skyway West we strive to provide the most reliable high speed Internet access for business, but sometimes circumstances arise that are beyond our control. The best way to ensure a continuous network connection for your business is to have two or more redundant connections, but it can be difficult to use both of them ...
The big, iconic brands I recall from my youth (before it had been misspent): Coke, Tide, Esso, GM, Ford and Chrysler. Coke’s easy to understand, Mom always used Tide, while Dad always filled his Buick with Esso gas. Most of you are too young to know how big a deal the “Big 3” automakers were. ...
Last week I was in Calgary, rolling out our “Infrastructure as a Service” to System Integrators and I.T. firms. Skyway is partnering with OneWire, delivering a hardware-free solution that gives I.T. professionals all the advantages of a complete enterprise-class datacenter without the hassle and expense of managing such a sophisticated system. Your servers exist in ...
Last month I discussed ways in which you could easily verify your Internet connection status. This month I will cover a few things that might save you some time troubleshooting and resolving your email issues. As before, I will also help provide direction about who to speak with or what you can do to resolve ...
Cellular costs are for many companies their fastest growing, and most uncontrollable, expense. Everybody wants a Smartphone and sometimes they want two, a Blackberry for the office and an iPhone or Android for personal use. They quickly become your primary communication tool at home and the office and your voice calls, text and data charges ...
Working in the high speed internet world means friends and acquaintances always assume I’m all over the latest trends, gizmos, apps and services. And to some extent I am — in fact I have to be, but… A New (OLD) Rule to Live By Only some of you will remember the TV series Banacek back ...
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 ...
A few weeks ago I wrote about a new 10 Mbps Burstable Fibre Internet service, available throughout most of Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. We received lots of responses, with many asking how a Burstable Fiber service compares to an Internet connection with Guaranteed Bandwidth. Burstable fiber traffic is assigned a lower priority within our network ...
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 ...
“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 ...
