The end of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses was announced in a ceremony in Miami this morning. Each of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) was allocated one of the final five large blocks of about 16 million addresses.

“A pool of more than four billion Internet addresses has just been emptied this morning,” said Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees IANA. “The future of the Internet, and the innovation it fosters, lies with IPv6.”

The supply of fresh IPv4 addresses for North America will probably last only about six months. This could change in the future if a global address policy were to be implemented that enabled IANA to accept returned IPv4 addresses from the RIRs in increments smaller than a /8. ARIN will continue to issue IPv4 addresses in accordance with policy until the ARIN IPv4 resource pool is depleted.

Now is the time to start implementing IPv6 if you haven’t done so already. We probably have about 6 months before IPv6 only clients will start showing up in Asia/Pacific.

What happens when ARIN runs out of IPv4 address space?

It’s inevitable that there will be some organizations that will still want/need IPv4 address space after the ARIN resource pool is depleted. ARIN’s Specified Transfer Listing Service (STLS) provides a way for organizations to either advertise their available IPv4 address space or contact an organization with space to arrange a transfer using section 8.3 of ARIN’s NRPM.

Similarly, if organizations have or are in need of IPv4 address space and have contacted an organization with reciprocal inventory or need, they are welcome to conduct a transfer under section 8.3 of ARIN’s NRPM without utilizing the STLS.

Per NRPM 4.1.8, if ARIN does not have sufficient inventory to fulfill a qualified IPv4 request, the requesting organization may choose to be placed on a waiting list of pre-qualified recipients. This waiting list will specify both the largest block the organization is approved to receive and the smallest block the organization will accept. As address blocks become available for allocation, ARIN will fulfill waiting list requests on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to block size availability and re-verification of an organization’s eligibility.

Want to learn more?

If you need help or want to discuss IPV6 and how to implement, consider calling 1Velocity. We’ll have you talk to Jean Nicolas, CCIE, our network operations manager.

Jean is responsible for designing and maintaining all components of the 1Velocity network. Jean Nicolas has more than 15 years experience in computer networking, systems design and computer programming. He holds multiple certifications, including the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) in routing and switching, Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI) and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

Prior to joining 1Velocity, Jean worked at Network Learning, Inc., where he managed large MAN, WAN, and VoIP implementation projects and taught classes for students seeking CCNA, CCIE, and CCDA certifications. Previously, he worked as a senior network engineer for Cisco Systems, providing support to AT&T, UUNet British Telecom, and other telecommunications carriers around the world.

Link to the above and other FAQ on ARIN’s website: https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_depletion.html

Here is a story from Computerworld on the subject, too: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9207961/ICANN_assigns_its_last_IPv4_addresses

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Millimeter-wave Body Scanner (tsa.gov)

What do the TSA’s new body scanners and 1Velocity have in common? Both use millimeter-wave spectrum.

The news this week is filled with stories about new body scanners at airport security that can see through passengers’ clothes. Those scanners use the same millimeter-wave spectrum 1Velocity uses in its Gigabit Ethernet backbone ring.

Does that mean 1Velocity can see under your clothes?

Millimeter-wave Spectrum

A spectrum is a range of light frequencies. Millimeter-wave is a spectrum not visible by the human eye.

A rainbow shows the visible spectrum, from the red frequencies all the way to the purple (Ever seen a double rainbow?). But there many spectrum that we cannot see with the naked eye.

Millimeter-wave, X-rays, gamma rays, microwave, and infrared are each different spectrum of light above or below what we can see with our eyes. And each spectrum has its own characteristics, useful for multiple applications.

Your TV remote and night-vision goggles both use infrared spectrum in different ways. Radar and microwave ovens use microwave in different ways.

Does your TV remote give you night-vision?

Like infrared and microwave, millimeter-wave has multiple uses.

While the TSA scanners send broad beams like a flashlight, 1Velocity uses targeted beams like a laser.

Using pencil-thin beams, 1Velocity can provide business Internet and metro Ethernet at a rate up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps). With a much-broader beam, the TSA body scanners to scan under passengers’ clothes for guns, knives, and explosives.

Since your TV remote doesn’t give you night vision, you have probably already guessed that 1Velocity’s pencil-thin beams cannot see under your clothes. All we can do is provide high-speed data connections across town or to the Internet, which is still pretty cool.

In the past, most businesses used TDM (T1, DS-3, OC-x) instead of Ethernet for WAN and Internet connectivity. Today, businesses are increasingly choosing Ethernet instead.

Why?

Ethernet has been used on corporate networks for decades because it is reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. Why have businesses only recently started using Ethernet for wide-area networks and Internet?

A Quick History Lesson

Back in the day, the only network in town was the telephone network. Corporate LANs spoke Ethernet, but the telephone networks did not. Engineers had to figure out how to transmit packetized data (Ethernet) over a circuit-switched telephone network.

The solution? Use a router to encapsulate packets into telecom protocols like TDM.

TDM: Inefficient, Costly, and Inflexible

As you can guess, there are a few problems with using a telephone network to route data.

• Overhead: putting IP packets over TDM carries significant overhead. Keeping data packetized throughout the network would be more efficient.
• Costly and Inflexible: to provide a 10 Mbps connection over copper, a carrier had to provision an entire 45 Mbps DS3; for a 100 Mbps connection, a fiber 155 Mbps OC-3.
• Inefficient: Unlike a phone call, data comes in bursts. On a voice network, unlike an Ethernet LAN, the bandwidth is always dedicated to that line, and the time between packets cannot be used for other packets.

The Switch to Carrier Ethernet

As data traffic overtook voice traffic, carriers found increasingly affordable ways to transmit packetized data on the phone networks.

Finally, some new carriers like Yipes, Cogent, and Telseon built end-to-end Ethernet long-haul fiber networks dedicated exclusively to data. Ironically, now that data traffic has far-surpassed voice traffic, many providers now send voice traffic over data networks using voice over IP (VoIP). In fact, AT&T has begun lobbying Congress to do away with the old telephone network.

Ethernet: Better Network, Better Costs

Ethernet has become the de facto standard for most corporate data networks thanks mainly to its affordability, scalability, and flexibility. Using Ethernet for Wide Area Networks (WANs) has many advantages:

• Scalable: you don’t have to pick 1.5, 45, or 155 Mbps. Most Ethernet carriers allow you to choose, 10, 50, 100, 500, or 1000 Mbps. And the leading Ethernet carriers allow you to scale in 1 Mbps increments.
• Flexible: configure point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, or (with the leading Ethernet carriers) any-to-any Ethernet virtual private LAN service (VPLS) networks. Ethernet can be used for private networks, Internet access, business continuity, and storage area networks (SANs).
• Affordable: Ethernet is more efficient, so it’s more affordable.
• Resilient: one of the best advantage of SONET is that failover is accomplished in under 50 ms. With Ethernet, failover can happen in as little as 15 ms.
• No Equipment: because packets no longer needs to be encapsulated, you can plug right into a firewall or switch.
• No Training: you already know how to use Ethernet. If you can setup a LAN, you can setup an Ethernet WAN.

What’s the Catch? The Fiber Gap

Historically, Ethernet has required a fiber-optic connection; efforts to put Ethernet over copper lines have been mixed.

Despite all the fiber installed over the last few decades, three out of four U.S. commercial buildings still only have copper cabling and cannot get Ethernet. Most businesses cannot afford the tens of thousands of dollars required for a fiber build.

Carriers such as 1Velocity have been bridging this fiber gap by using millimeter-wave and microwave wireless to build dedicated wireless Ethernet connections to business.

Summary: Use Ethernet for Data Networks

Telephone networks speak a different language than corporate Ethernet LANs. In the past, the phone companies developed technologies like T1, DS-3, and OC-x to transmit Ethernet data over the telephone networks, but these methods were inefficient, costly, and inflexible.

As data traffic overtook voice traffic, some new carriers built Ethernet networks dedicated exclusively to data. Many organizations have switched to Ethernet MANs and WANs for better scalability, affordability, simplicity, flexibility, and resiliency.

But the costs of fiber builds have limited the availability of Ethernet to businesses. Wireless providers like 1Velocity are helping to bridge that gap and bring the benefits of Ethernet to businesses at a reasonable price.

Download as PDF: The Switch to Ethernet – 1Velocity Tips

Maximizing uptime requires multiple Internet carriers. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) allows companies to use two or more Internet connections at the same time and maintain connectivity during an outage without having to change IP addresses.

BGP has many options, but here are the basics for using BGP with multiple Internet providers.

Three Types of Routes

BGP tells your router where to send outbound traffic. When you connect your network to an Internet provider’s network using BGP, your router can receive three different routes: Default Route, Full Routes, or Partial Routes.

1. Default Route: failover but no optimization

Configuring BGP for each Internet connection using a default route allows a company to have automatic failover between two providers should one provider go down. However, BGP will not load-balance and will send all outgoing traffic to only one ISP. Default routes are often used on routers with less than 512 MB RAM.

2. Full Routes: failover plus optimization

Using full BGP routes with multiple Internet providers allows a company to:

1. Optimize: Automatically optimize outbound traffic to choose the provider with the shortest path (shortest AS number, by default) to each destination.
2. Failover: Have auto-failover should one of the ISPs go down. BGP tries to find the shortest path from your gateway to a destination IP address. If one of the carriers is down, the router simply chooses a path from the other carrier.

However, Full Routes typically require a router with minimum 1 GB RAM. Advertising full routes requires keeping all the Internet’s available paths in your router’s memory. As of 2010, there are over 280,000 routes on the Internet, so having two ISPs means you’ll need to store over 560,000 paths. A router with 1 GB memory typically starts around $25,000, depending on the vendor.

3. Partial Routes: optimizing a subset of designated paths

What if your router does not have 1 GB memory? You do not have to store all the paths. With Partial Routes, you configure the router to receive only certain routes. You could ask the ISP to only send some routes, but filtering routes yourself allows for more control and the ability to receive full routes if you upgrade your router.

Typically, you would designate a default route for each provider, plus some specific routes through each provider to frequently-accessed IP addresses (web apps, frequently-used web sites and services, off-site servers, etc).

Getting Started with BGP

Regardless of whether you choose default, full, or partial routes, you will need the following:

• Advertisement Authorization from Both Carriers: BGP only routes outgoing traffic. To failover incoming traffic, you need permission from both carriers to advertise the other’s routes.
• AS Number: if you have multiple Internet providers, you need an Autonomous System Number (AS Number, $500 from ARIN). As long as you can show you are using multiple Internet carriers, you qualify for an AS number, no matter what size your organization.
• /24 Subnet: Most ISPs require that you have at least a /24 set of IP addresses for them to advertise your subnet. You can buy one from your ISP, or you can buy one directly from ARIN.

Download as PDF: Internet Redundancy with BGP

The Southwest Intertie Project will include not only power lines but also fiber lines from Las Vegas to Ely to Boise.

The One Nevada Transmission Line (ON Line), a new power transmission line from Las Vegas to Ely, broke ground this week. ON Line is the first phase of the Southwest Intertie Project, which will reach all the way from Las Vegas to Boise.

Included in the $510 million ON Line build is approximately $10 million for fiber optic communications. The overhead fiber optic is only to be used for managing the new power lines, but if the fiber-optic lines were expanded, they could provide a new long-haul data communications path for Nevada.

Currently, long-haul communications between southern and northern Nevada have to travel roundabout through California to the west or Utah and Idaho to the east; there is no telecommunications carrier path directly through Nevada. A direct line from Las Vegas to Ely could improve performance and reliability of data and phone communications between northern and southern Nevada.

It sparked my interest in learning a bit more about the company and its meteoric growth.  In my searches, I learned a few things I thought I would share:

1. Facebook is Big—The Facebook website launched in February 2004 and today has more than 500 million users and gets about 700 BILLION page views per month.  It accounts for about 9.5 percent of all internet traffic, more than Google now.
2. Facebook and Microsoft—Most of Facebook’s revenues come from advertising. Microsoft is Facebook’s exclusive partner for serving banner advertising, and as such, Facebook only serves advertisements from Microsoft’s ad inventory. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are both Harvard dropouts.
3. Nice growth—Facebook is projected do more than $1.2 billion in sales this year, up from $52 million in 2006.
4. PayPal and Facebook—The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004.  Theil made $55 million from the sale of PayPal, but his $500,000 investment in Facebook is worth more than $1 billion.
5. Worth the wait—it took Facebook 5 1/2 years to be cash flow positive. Zuckerberg announced in September 2009 that, for the first time, Facebook was cash flow positive, meaning Facebook had made more money that it spent.
6. A Picture is Worth…—Facebook users add 100 million new photos every day.
7. Facebook is big in Muslim countries—Indonesia, which has the world’s largest muslim population, is the second largest country of Facebook users with 28 million users. Turkey is fourth with 23 million users.
8. Data Centers—Facebook operates at least nine data centers on both coasts of the United States, and is in the process of building its first company-built data center in Oregon. So far in 2010, Facebook is running at least 60,000 servers in its data centers, up from 30,000 in 2009 and 10,000 back in April 2008.
9. Head Count—Facebook has historically maintained a ratio of 1 engineer for every 1 million users, although recent efficiencies have boosted that ratio to 1 engineer for every 1.2 million users.  That means they only have about 420 engineers.
10. Games—Farmville boasts more than 120 million players on Facebook. Zynga—the maker of Farmville, Mafia Wars, and other Facebook games—should post annual revenue of more than $450 million in 2010.  Employee headcount at Zynga has almost quadrupled in the past year, to 775. Including Zynga, there are more than 1 million developers in total building applications for Facebook.
11. Built on Open Source—Facebook was developed from the ground up using open source software. The site is written primarily in the PHP programming language and uses a MySQL database infrastructure. To accelerate the site, the Facebook Engineering team developed a program called HipHop to transform PHP source code into C++ and gain performance benefits.
12. Word of the Year—In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared “Facebook” as their new Word of the Year. The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook.
13. Who is Looking at Your Kid’s Facebook Page?—A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.

All this from a company that’s younger than my fourth grader.

Mike

References:

• http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/the-facebook-data-center-faq/
• http://www.checkfacebook.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
• http://facts.randomhistory.com/interesting-facebook-facts.html

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People tell us they like the personal touch they get with 1Velocity. We stay-in-touch with our customers and make it easy for you to stay-in-touch with us.

Well, now there is a new way to stay connected to 1Velocity. After several requests, we’ve joined Facebook.

Our new Facebook page is all things 1Velocity in one place.

Visit the 1Velocity Facebook page now and click the “Like” button to follow us.

Talking to a Real Person

One customer in the broadcasting business said he noticed something right away that sets 1Velocity apart from the other Internet carriers he has dealt with. At the bottom of all the emails our network team sent him during setup, he saw the following statement:

24/7 NOC Emergency Contact Line: 702-333-3753  - This number uses a hunt pattern. Please allow to ring until you reach a live team member. If you are unsuccessful reaching a live team member please call back. 1Velocity takes pride in our customer service. As a 1Velocity customer you will always reach a live team member.

He and other customers have told me that too often when they call other carriers, they have to call an automated line and end up getting stuck in a phone tree.  Or, they reach someone who has little to no real technical background.  Or they have to open a ticket via email or in a web browser (kind of hard to do when your internet is down) to get service.  Most feel helpless, wondering if anyone in a position to help is working on the problem.

Our escalation list includes three layers of contacts from the tech support group to management to me, the CEO.  In four years, I have only been called once.

Knowing the Network

The second story comes from a new customer in the distribution business. The customer moved to 1Velocity after a bad experience with his previous carrier, a regional CLEC.

The customer had an outage and called tech support.  The CLEC customer service rep said they didn’t know they had an issue but would get back to the customer shortly. Three hours later, the customer was back up but hadn’t heard from the customer service rep.  The following day, more than twenty-four hours after the issue had been resolved, the CLEC customer service rep finally called back and said the connection should be back up. The customer could not believe his carrier didn’t have a better grasp on the status of the network.

If you listen to or read our customer testimonials, you’ll learn customer service is one of 1Velocity’s strengths. Maybe that’s why, according to Speedtest.net, no other carrier in Nevada has higher customer satisfaction ratings than 1Velocity.

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1Velocity.com: Simpler, faster, and now with email subscribe!

We just finished some improvements to the 1Velocity website. Our website is one of the primary ways people learn about how 1Velocity can help their businesses. Now, It is also a great way to stay updated on what’s new with the company.

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Our primary goal with this refresh is to allow visitors to subscribe to our email newsletter. You can now sign-up to receive emails with expert tips, upcoming events, and news from 1Velocity. Subscribe to get Ethernet Tips

Other Improvements

While we were at it, we made a few other changes:

• our phone number on the top of every page
• better search engine optimization to help people find us
• faster
• photos of customer installations
• simpler, cleaner design

How can we improve further?

On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee approved a bill that would effectively legalize online poker and other nonsports betting, overturning a 2006 federal ban that critics say merely drove Web-based casinos offshore. The bill would direct the Treasury Department to license and regulate Internet gambling operations, while a companion measure, pending before another committee, would allow the Internal Revenue Service to tax such businesses.

via Congress Is Rethinking Its Ban on Internet Gambling – NYTimes.com.

Semantics can be tricky when it comes to technology, too. Take the concept of “carrier Ethernet.” We think we know what it means: Ethernet services provided by carriers. But it’s not that obvious. There are three distinct offerings, all with specific characteristics, under the broad umbrella of carrier Ethernet.

Learn the differences: The many flavors of carrier Ethernet (Network World).

Google says that this is the first multi-tenant cloud application suite that has received FISMA certification at a FISMA-Moderate level, which gives it the ability to store and serve sensitive (but not classified) information. Google’s Matthew Glotzbach says this encompasses 80-90% of all government information.

Read more: Google Launches Apps for Government, with Servers on US Soil

“It was time for something completely different, something decentralized, something more like.. BitTorrent.. running inside of our datacenter to quickly copy files around,” Twitter engineer Larry Gadea explains.

The new BitTorrent-powered system “turned a 40 minute deploy process into one that lasted just 12 seconds.”

Read more: BitTorrent Makes Twitter’s Server Deployment 75x Faster | TorrentFreak.

However, despite all the challenges, 1Velocity has made some very important progress.

As we begin our fourth year, 1Velocity continues to grow.

We just closed out the fiscal year, and despite the recession, 1Velocity had record revenues last year. This year is off to a good start as well. Revenues for the first quarter of this fiscal year are up from the previous year. Remarkably, we have also cut expenses over the last year.

As the economy continues to improve and more organizations learn about 1Velocity’s unique services, we hope to continue to help more organizations improve redundancy, save money, and get more done quickly with Internet and private Ethernet connections over wireless fiber.

Retired since 2002, Mr. Hartman was president of Verizon Wireless’ Telecommunication Services, Inc. (TSI) for two years until he sold the company for more than $800 million to a private equity group.  Prior to TSI, Mr. Hartman was with GTE for 28 years, ultimately rising to Area President.  He oversaw operations from Ohio to Texas to Florida, responsible for over $600 million in annual revenues and 1.25 million customers.

Mr. Hartman brings excellent telecom and leadership experience to the company and says he sees great potential in 1Velocity.

They Grow Up So Fast

In four years, the 1Velocity network has gone from zero locations to over one hundred. We’ve built state-of-the-art Metro Ethernet carrier networks in Las Vegas and Reno using wireless GigE millimeter-wave and microwave technology.

Banks, governments, airlines, healthcare, mobile phone carriers, public safety, and many other organizations have used 1Velocity to save thousands in trenching costs, improve redundancy, and get installed quickly. In fact, we have site-walked over six hundred locations.

Metro Ethernet over a Wireless Fiber Carrier Network

For years, carriers had to share the phone company’s infrastructure. 1Velocity has shown how to provide enterprise-class bandwidth on a wireless backhaul that completely bypasses the phone company’s trenches, poles, and central offices.

1Velocity provides Internet and metro Ethernet connections from 8 Mbps to 1 Gbps over its network to businesses, government, and carriers.

Thank You

Thank you to all our customers, investors, and staff over the years who helped get us to this point. We could not have done it without you.

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LVDC currently has 1Velocity and another provider providing Internet to their headquarters (both connections are used as primary with different data on each connection). LVDC added an additional line with 1Velocity last year and recently renewed the 1Velocity Internet connection at their headquarters.

“Two years ago, we brought in 1Velocity. They are completely diverse from any other carrier.

What has surprised us is it that 1Velocity’s wireless fiber has been more reliable than our ground fiber carrier. 1Velocity has performed very well, and I would highly recommend them.”

Ken Sarnecky
Las Vegas Dissemination Company

More customer stories at customers.1velocity.com

Chris Vein, the CIO for San Francisco, said at the launch event, “We’ve done all of that work. We’ve come up with all of those rules and standards and we’re giving it away for free. If somebody in another city wants to use this, they can take it and their programmers don’t have to spend months going through the protocols and figuring out how to make it interoperable.”

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Netflix and the U.S. Government are moving parts of their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services, and apparently they’re not alone.

The majority of SMB’s now have a “SaaS first” policy, they prefer it. Many of the respondents to Goldman’s survey indicated they were using SaaS in this economy for TCO reasons, to save money…

Amazon.com is used by 67 percent of the survey respondents. It is clearly the out-in-front leader, despite being a “newcomer” to enterprise IT. For internal clouds, VMware’s leadership remains pronounced, with 83 percent of respondents using its virtualization technology.

Read the Full Post: Amazon is Stealing the Cloud

What does 1Velocity do? 1Velocity provides metro Ethernet and Internet to businesses and governments in Las Vegas and Reno from 8 Mbps to 1 Gbps. We used a new technology called wireless fiber to build our own GigE local loop. Learn more in this quick video and then visit 1Velocity.com.

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Though fiber penetration is up slightly, 77% of U.S. commercial buildings still do not have fiber-optic connectivity.

From the report:

Detailed findings show that while most large enterprise locations in the U.S. and Europe are fiber-connected, small and medium business (SMB) sites are underserved with fiber from any service provider (i.e., incumbent carrier, competitive provider, Cable MSO, PTT, etc.)…

“The challenge ahead is to extend fiber connectivity to remote business locations. For the U.S. plus countries throughout Europe, this fiber gap exceeds more than one million sites,” said Rosemary Cochran, principal at Vertical Systems Group.

Absolutely! 1Velocity customers use a variety of VoIP systems on our network (Cisco, Shoretel, Mitel, Polycom, etc.) with great call quality. And we are cross-connected to multiple hosted VoIP providers.

Two keys for top-notch call quality are a low latency connection and separating VoIP traffic from the rest of your data.

Latency is the time it takes for voice or data packets to get from one location to the next. If the latency is too high, your phone conversation slows down and you can get echo. For a phone conversation, you usually need less than 150 ms latency one way. Latency across the valley on 1Velocity is a screaming 1 ms, more than fast enough for real-time voice or video conferencing.

The other important task is separating voice traffic from other traffic. If voice and data share the same bandwidth, voice quality will suffer as the line gets congested. Virtual LANs (VLANs) and Quality of Service (QoS) allow you to virtually carve out separate lines for voice and data and prioritize the voice traffic, so that call quality on the voice VLAN stays consistent no matter how much data there is on the data VLAN.

Since 1Velocity’s network is Layer 2 at all points, you can set up multiple VLANs to separate different types of traffic and run QoS.