IAI owns and operates over 600 kilometres of fibre-optic infrastructure throughout Atlantic Canada. We provide multi-site customers with highly-secure, high-bandwidth connectivity between sites.
Our current locations are:
- Halifax Regional Municipality, NS
- Point Tupper / Port Hawkesbury, NS
- Annapolis Valley, NS (in collaboration with the FUNDYweb Broadband Network and VCFN)
- Charlottetown, PE
- Moncton, NB
- Stellarton, NS
- Florenceville, NB
- Edmundston, NB
- Saint John, NB
IAI offers customers the ability to use direct fibre-optic links between sites, allowing them to directly control bandwidth, protocol, and applications without fear of escalating costs or incompatible transport protocols.
Direct optical transport service permits customers to benefit from the unlimited bandwidth, exceptional security, and non-stop reliability of "dark fibre" optical service in a governed, service-oriented, business environment.
IAI services are delivered to customers with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that mandate reliability and quality. IAI infrastructure is constructed primarily in ring topologies on the same underground and aerial utility structures used by other carriers.
The benefits of IAI optical transport services include:
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Virtually Unlimited Bandwidth
IAI dark fibre can be lit by the customer with low-cost equipment running at rates up to 10 Gbps.
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Unparalleled Security
IAI customers benefit from private access to physical optical fibre strands from within IAI optical cables. No multiplexing, billing, switching, or other devices exist in the customer's optical pathways. This guarantees the end-to-end security of the optical pathways.
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Non-Stop Reliability
IAI optical infrastructures are most often deployed in redundant ring topologies, allowing data-path redundancy to assure connectivity in the event of an adverse network condition.
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Rapid Return On Investment (ROI)
Based on low-cost, long-term service agreements, IAI optical transport services enable customers to consolidate servers, reduce network complexity, or build on-line remote Disaster Recovery sites with the assurance of long-term cost control independent of bandwidth growth.
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Server and Service Consolidation
Direct fibre-optic transport allows the consolidation of servers and services to one main site, permitting enterprises to reduce the complexity of their networks. In a typical scenario, IAI fibre services allow an enterprise or institution with several metro locations to centralize servers, routers, firewall and security devices, and other equipment to one main site, and to service all other sites at ISO layer 2 via fibre-optic interconnections.
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Protocol Independence
IAI fibre infrastructure may be used for numerous purposes including surveillance video, SAN backup using fibre-channel devices, all LAN, MAN and WAN protocols, and inter PBX and VOIP links. Customers achieve rapid ROI when fibre interconnections are used for multiple purposes.
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Security and Segregation
By using multiple fibre-optic pairs, IAI customers can physically segregate data and services on separate optical strands, thereby assuring the security of sensitive and high-value data streams.
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Storage Area Networks, Backup Data Centres and Disaster Recovery
Direct optical service can reduce the cost and complexity of implementing remote SAN nodes, and backup and Disaster Recovery sites, making these critical business elements more affordable to a wider range of enterprise.