Our services fall into two categories. One, stuff for your business. Two, stuff for your staff. Gigabit Complete is what we call the “stuff for your business”. A powerful, Google-ready firewall and router The equipment and ongoing support for this is included in Gigabit Complete. It will process a full Gigabit of traffic AND keep […]
One day in 2008, I plopped about 200 job applications on an assistant’s desk and asked her to see if any seemed worth interviewing for an open sales position. After reviewing them and calling many to get a quick impression, she returned a stack of five for full interviews. And she had one more in […]
In 2015, Avid Communications was named the first Google Fiber Tech Partner in Kansas City. It means we’ve been certified as meeting Google Fiber’s standards for providing an array of services designed to work well over Google Fiber. But there’s one more thing. Avid’s network is directly connected to Google Fiber’s network. Even before Google […]
For Avid and our customer base of commercial users, early Sunday morning is generally quiet. But at least one of our clients, a car wash, is busy preparing for a crucial day. On this particular Sunday, their internet connection was “down.” They called our support line and I took the call (Avid’s partners occasionally take […]
How do you explain to your 8-year-old that the world doesn’t really work this way? When I was eight, one of the worst franchises in baseball history had already left KC after laying down a decade long stench of epic losing. We now had no team at all. In his two years of following baseball, […]
Jackson County CASA just moved to Google Fiber and Avid’s Gigabit Complete service. They consolidated two connections to one, increasing bandwidth by 100 times (not a typo!) and lowering their monthly bill by about 20%. Avid had fought on CASA’s behalf for years to get adequate bandwidth at a reasonable price. Because of CASA’s location, fixed […]
Most businesses signing up for Google Fiber ask us the question whether they should sign up for one (or five) static IP addresses—one of the questions that must be answered in the signup process. For most businesses, it is good to order one, but five static IPs are not needed. Avid’s Gigabit Complete router/firewall will […]
Adapt or die. These days those words have never been more true. When Google Fiber announced business service at $100 per month for a gigabit of Internet service, our world here in KC changed. Dramatically. We sell Internet service that we get at wholesale rates and mark up to retail rates. But Google Fiber isn’t […]
We’re about five months in to Google Fiber’s business offering, and I’m being told that a lot of service providers are telling people that it’s suitable only as a backup service–a fairly cheap $100/month standby for your main circuit. I suppose if I made most of my money selling Internet access, I’d be telling everyone […]