IAI's Data Centre and our private “Dark Fibre” networks provide high quality infrastructure services to customers in both the public and private sectors. IAI customers benefit from our unique fibre connectivity, state-of-the-art Data Centre services, and professional operations management.
Enterprise
IAI Enterprise customers benefit from the increased bandwidth, reduced costs, and increased functionality provided by IAI direct optical services. Mission critical, high bandwidth, high security applications are ideal candidates for direct optical services. The opportunities for cost savings and increased functionality from consolidation of servers, firewalls, Internet Access, and SANs is always a significant driver for industry applications.
The intrinsically secure nature of direct fibre access eliminates many issues surrounding site-to-site connectivity over Internet VPNs or other public networks. Access to fibre services from IAI allows for segregation of critical network traffic. Confidential, real-time, and mission critical traffic can be routed over physically independent fibre links, creating a true private network.
Positioned as a high availability primary or a backup site for data storage and server operations the IAI Data Centre is also an ideal site for carrier-neutral interconnects. The IAI Data Centre is built with the redundancy and non-stop operational ability required by Enterprise customers. The IAI Data Centre is an ideal site for implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity services. IAI staff provides professional, expert services to all our customers.
Government
Government agencies and departments derive significant benefits from direct optical networks through consolidation of servers, firewalls, Internet Access, and SANs. Direct optical connectivity between sites permits a simplified architecture resulting in reduced server count, consolidated management and administration, and higher utilization of existing assets. As well, the intrinsically secure nature of direct fibre access eliminates many issues surrounding site-to-site connectivity over public networks. Direct fibre service means that increases in bandwidth requirements generate no additional recurring fees.
Access to multiple fibres from IAI allows for segregation of critical network traffic. Confidential, real-time, and mission critical traffic can be routed over physically independent fibre links, creating a true private network. Latency-critical applications such as VOIP and video can easily be assigned to separate fibres, removing the cost and complexity of QoS tagging and traffic shaping or policing.
The IAI Data Centre is positioned as a high availability primary or a backup site for data storage and server operations. It is also an ideal site for carrier-neutral interconnects. The IAI Data Centre is built with the same “big iron” quality, redundancy, and functionality that the government sector expects. The IAI Data Centre is an ideal site for implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity services. IAI staff provides professional, expert services to all our customers.
Health
Bandwidth and security are key elements of Health Sector Networks. IAI’s direct fibre networks and our TIA-942 Tier III Data Centre provide non-stop, highly secure telecom and hosting services. These services are deliver unparalleled security for multi-site, multi-user, hospital systems. Coupled with the multiple redundant systems within the IAI Data Centre, our ability to provision direct optical links in physically diverse, ring-based topologies means non-stop operations.
Education
IAI’s private, high-capacity optical networks permit educational institutions to create metropolitan area networks that radically simplify network administration across many sites. Using IAI “dark fibre” connections, servers, firewalls, administrative support, and Internet connectivity can be consolidated at a central site and distributed to other sites using Gigabit speed connectivity. As well as serving as a base for increased cooperation and sharing of information, this simplified architecture reduces costs, and increases functionality.
Advanced applications such as shared white-boards, videoconferencing, and remote teaching are all made possible at a low cost by the presence of the virtually infinite bandwidth available over IAI direct optical network services.
Coupled with our optical networks, IAI hosting services mean that educational institutions can benefit from our purpose-built, high availability server hosting facility. The reduction in the use of resources such as space, power, and cooling can be significant.
Municipal
Optical infrastructure services are key to many IAI clients in the municipal sector, including the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Western Annapolis Valley area, the Town of Edmundston, and the Point Tupper industrial area. IAI's fibre-optic telecommunication services can easily accommodate high bandwidth requirements necessary for financial, CAD, and GIS systems that are prevalent in this sector. As well, IAI fibre-optic networks have been used extensively for SCADA integration at well-heads, and monitoring and pumping stations. IAI fibre networks are also ideally suited for video monitoring applications such as traffic control, security monitoring, and vandalism prevention.