I’ve been meaning to write this for the longest time. After nearly ten years of helping thousands of Kansas City companies select the right Internet connection, I want to boil down our experience—stripping out the marketing hype— to a few paragraphs that will help non-technical business owners understand their Internet choices. To frame this, keep […]
Saturday’s edition of The New York Times featured an article about whether the massive bandwidth of Google Fiber is really making a difference. A couple of the services provided by Avid Communications over Google Fiber were mentioned deep in the article. “Two Cities with Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer App.” The reporter seems […]
Jay Tomlinson, developer of an apartment/retail/condo building at 1515 Walnut in Kansas City, had Google Fiber installed in all the residential and retail spaces in the building. He turned to Avid to provide phone service in his condo and for the various phone line requirements associated with the building itself, including elevator line and fire […]
It’s 5:45 am and Ron Zack of the Zack Group is preparing for the most important part of his day–the early morning rush. These hours are key for the medical staffing company. But his overnight coverage person, working on an IP phone from home, reports that phone service is down. The NEC system at the […]
For many businesses, a local presence can be important. So giving out a toll-free or a long-distance number simply doesn’t project the right message. Avid can provide you with a local phone number almost anywhere in the country for just $15 per month, and that includes free calling from your main office to local numbers […]
This weekend I was reminded that a network is only a good as its weakest link. So is the case with Google Fiber. The wifi access points (APs) deployed by Google are notoriously weak. So I added a Ubiquiti AC/AP to my Google Fiber-based network and ran some side-by-side speed tests. The results were striking. […]
When the heavy storms rolled through last night about 10 pm, Avid was watching. If you’re on Avid’s network, we monitor your connection at all times. When a heavy thunderstorm hits, we usually see its course across town as power outages affect our clients. Outages are overwhelmingly power related and usually we see most–but not all– connections […]
Just take your Avid office phone. A quick call to Avid before leaving was all it took for an Avid customer to ready his phone for service in Israel. That phone will ring just as if it were located here in Kansas City. A secretary can transfer calls to it with the push of a button. […]
This Monday morning could have been a big headache for American Equipment. Their T-1 on the AT&T network is down. But because they are an Avid Dual WAN client, their network is fully functional over a high-speed wireless circuit, set up for automatic failover in the event of an outage. Avid supplies both connections to […]