Skyway Business Fibre Compared to Telus PureFibre
Not all Fibre is created equal. Sure, Telus PureFibre is great for residential networks. But watching movies at home isn’t the same as managing a business network. Businesses depend on the ability to connect seamlessly and instantly to customers, employees, services and data with no downtime. Telus PureFibre certainly seems like a great deal, but can you really afford to trust your eCommerce, video conferencing, file transfers and backup to a shared, residential-grade internet service?
The short answer is yes — in some cases, now you can! Skyway now offers our own Purefibre which, when combined with SD-WAN Failover, Policy Routing and QoS, provides many of the benefits of Dedicated Fibre at a much lower cost. This table compares Skyway West Dedicated Business Fibre to Skyway Managed PureFibre and to Telus PureFibre. Critically, Telus PureFibre is a best effort service like DSL or Cable, and is delivered on a shared network. For those who can’t justify paying for dedicated fibre, check out the middle column: Skyway’s Managed PureFibre with included Skyway Private IPs and optional Failover expands the capabilities of Telus PureFibre, vastly improving your internet reliability and experience while making it much more robust.
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Business Level Differences
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Skyway Dedicated Fibre |
Skyway Managed PureFibre |
Telus PureFibre |
| Fibre Support |
24/7 |
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| Performance Guarantees |
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| Meantime to Repair SLA † |
4 Hr |
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| Availability SLA † |
99.999% |
(with Skyway Failover) |
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| Direct Peering with Independent ISPs |
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| Traffic Analysis |
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| Unlimited Traffic |
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(on some services) |
| Inbound Static IP Failover |
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| Outbound Static IP Failover |
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| Policy Routing |
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| Class of Service (CoS) |
up to 4 classes |
Priority Queuing |
Best Effort |
| Coverage |
National |
Select Locations |
Select Locations |
| Public IP Addresses * |
CIDR /29 (5 usable static IP) |
CIDR /29 (5 usable static IP) |
2 Public Dynamic |
| Multi-site Private Networks ** |
Unlimited Private IPs |
Unlimited Private IPs |
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| Dedicated, Private Connection to Cloud Services |
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Technical Differences
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Skyway Dedicated Fibre |
Skyway Managed PureFibre |
Telus PureFibre |
| MTU Size |
up to 9100 |
1500 |
1500 |
| Speed |
up to 10 Gbps |
up to 940 Mbps |
up to 940 Mbps |
| Power |
AC/DC/Hardened |
AC only |
AC only |
| Hardware |
NID and no NID |
Managed Router |
Modem only |
| CoS Preservation |
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| Multi-site Shared VLAN |
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| VLAN Tagging Support |
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| VLAN Translation |
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| Multiple EVC Capable |
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| Dedicated UNI |
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| UNI port options |
Multiple Fibre or Ethernet |
Single Fibre or Multiple Ethernet |
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†Skyway’s SLA is backed by credits for downtime.
*CIDR /29 blocks are available from Telus for $12/block. Skyway includes the first block for free, additional blocks are available for $8/block.
**Starting at $50/month per site, over our own or any other ISP’s service (including PureFibre), Skyway can provide Public or Private IPs. Private IPs protect customers from Denial of Service attacks, and are used to build Private Networks. Other Skyway add-ons available include Failover, Policy Routing and Class of Service.
