In Mobile Backhaul on January 8, 2010 by Nate Rosenberg Tagged: backhaul, ces, internet, temporary
The Washington Post reports that CES attendees are seeing slow service from AT&T on their iPhones. Providing 3G service at special events can be difficult since the bandwidth demand increases substantially, but only for a week or two.
In Las Vegas, 1Velocity has provided temporary 100 Mbps Ethernet backhaul for numerous conventions, including for a national carrier for a show at the Las Vegas convention center. Our rapidly-deployable technology is ideal for providing robust, reliable temporary connections, and we expect this segment of our business to grow in the coming years.
In Mobile Backhaul on January 6, 2010 by Nate Rosenberg Tagged: at&t, cell, hspa 7.2, Mobile Backhaul, wireless fiber
AT&T today announced that they finished updating all their U.S. cell sites to HSPA 7.2. The upgrades will allow AT&T cell sites to transmit at twice their previous speeds…but wait, oh, only in a few cities right now (neither Las Vegas or Reno is one of the test cities).
Even though the cell sites have been upgraded, the backhaul network serving those cell sites do not have sufficient capacity for the additional bandwidth.
From Techcrunch: “The key to getting AT&T’s network up to the 7.2Mbps speed is upgrading its backhaul connections. That’s what AT&T is currently doing in the cities where it is testing the faster speeds, and it says it will continue rolling that out to more markets in 2010, and complete it in 2011.”
We’ve previously written on our blog about how millimeter-wave wireless fiber can help solve the mobile backhaul bottleneck.
In Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg
1Velocity was founded by former IT professionals used to dealing with legacy carriers, so we do things the way an IT person would want them done.
The name 1Velocity comes from the fact that we do not oversubscribe our network, so our customers always get the same speeds no matter how busy the network is. The connection never slows down. You get one speed, or one velocity, always.
We do other things the way an IT professional would want them, too. We don’t block ports or do packet-shaping. We hand-off Layer 1 Ethernet, and there are zero hops between customer locations on our network.
We’re flexible and strive to be easy to work with. When you call support, you get a network engineer who can isolate and solve the problem with you. Every customer gets an escalation list including the CEO’s cell phone. And since we own our own network, we don’t pass you off to someone else.
In 1Velocity in the News, Company Updates on December 10, 2009 by Nate Rosenberg
1Velocity debuted this week on SpeedTest.net’s list of the Top 10 ISPs in Nevada at number one. We have average download and upload speeds twice as fast as any other carrier in the state. We are also the top-ranked ISP by SpeedTest.net users.
SpeedTest.net is a third-party website for testing Internet connection speeds and rating ISPs. After users test their Internet connection speed, they are also asked to rate their ISP and can compare their results to other carriers in the area.
1Velocity is a Nevada-based metro Ethernet carrier pioneering the use of millimeter-wave wireless fiber for Ethernet private line service and Internet Access currently serving businesses, governments, and other carriers in Las Vegas and Reno.
Earlier this year, one of our customers alerted us to the fact that 1Velocity was ranked number one in Las Vegas. Now, with customers in both Las Vegas and Reno, we have been added to the list for all of Nevada and have debuted at number one.
In large part, this reflects 1Velocity’s focus on serving larger businesses, government agencies, and other telecommunications carriers. Our customers are some of the largest bandwidth users in the state, and they demand big, fast connections. We were especially honored to see that SpeedTest.net users rated us so highly.
Thank you to our customers for rating us as the best ISP in Nevada.
