We have three Colocation choices in Vancouver with direct connections to Skyway’s network
Physical Colocation
Use colocation data centers to store servers and other gear required for regular business operations. Colocation ensures sufficient bandwidth while providing shared, secure areas in a cool, climate-controlled environment.
What is Colocation?
Colocation is a service that lets businesses house their own servers and IT equipment in a secure, professional data centre instead of keeping them on-site. You own and manage your hardware, while the data centre provides the space, power, cooling, physical security, and high-speed connectivity needed to keep it running reliably.
Colocation gives your business enterprise-grade infrastructure, improved uptime, and scalable bandwidth — without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining your own facility.
Features
Three Options
Colocation Service Level Agreement
Skyway guarantees all Colocation customers 100% uninterrupted transit to the Internet. Click to Read the Colocation SLA.
Multi-homed IP addresses
Multi-homed IP addresses automatically route traffic through whichever provider offers the shortest distance to/from your location.
Lots of Choice
All our facilities use multi-homed IP addresses that transit through Telus, Bell Canada, Centurylink (formerly Level3), Hurricane Electric and Cogent, and peer with many providers through VANIX (e.g., BC Net, Shaw) and other exchanges. Multi-homed IP addresses automatically route traffic through whichever provider offers the shortest distance to/from your location. As a result servers hosted on Skyway’s network are closer to your customers across North America, Europe and Asia and experience less latency and jitter than servers outside our network
Colocation in our network core at 555 West Hastings is provided in the building’s Meet Me Room. This building is the center of Internet activity in Western Canada, offering the best connectivity options to the United States, Asia and 50 other BC ISPs through VANIX. Our interconnection space is intended for switches and servers requiring a direct connection to other ISPs, our network and customer base. Space is limited and is sold in 1U increments.
Elevators are locked off to the public after hours, sign-in is required with on-site security, and there are cameras throughout the building. Supervised access must be arranged beforehand. We recommend customers use switches, or servers requiring little maintenance and managed remotely.
We recommend the use of IPMI devices with secure passwords and IP based Access Control lists. We can arrange an extra Ethernet port and IP Address for IPMI purposes.
Our 200 Burrard facility is on the 2nd Floor of the Waterfront Centre at Burrard and Cordova, across from the Vancouver Convention Centre. Colocation here is for customers who may not need full cage space but require excellent security and the comfort of knowing their Internet servers are accessible to them on demand. Customers have 24/7 access using a card key and pin pad. There is a “smart elevator system” which prevents access to any floor but the one your card is keyed for. A cargo elevator is also available. This is a Triple A building, with a 100% uptime record since it opened in 2000.
Customer supplies and manages their own switch, firewall, servers and server backup.
1050 West Pender is for customers who require at least a full cage of space, the highest security, a state-of-the-art work environment and colo space optimized for cooling and energy efficiency. Customers have 24/7 attendant controlled access monitored by camera. Visitors are accounted for by a body scan during entry and exit.
The site is extremely green, minimizing your carbon footprint. It is designed for ultra-efficiency, enabling the outside climate to cool the data centre for most of the year. 1055 West Pender is directly connected by a low latency fibre ring to the Skyway network core six blocks away at 555 West Hastings. This building is the center of Internet activity in Western Canada with the best connectivity options to the United States, Asia and 50 other BC ISPs through VANIX. Customers can also buy Internet transit (by Mbps) from Skyway in this facility.
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