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Dallas Peering Exchange We are proud to announce that we have recently added the Equinix Dallas Peering Exchange to our backbone network. The new 10Gbit per second link provides more capacity for our customers exchanging traffic with other networks, such as Amazon, Softlayer, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft and Google. The Equinix Peering Exchange in Dallas is…
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Great News! SmartCom is deploying new internet services to Rio Grande City over the next few months, so now is the perfect time to pre-order a DSL connection for your home or a fiber optic internet connection for your business. For our residential customers, SmartCom will have high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) service with no…
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Why would anyone still need Plain Old Telephone Service or POTS? With the proliferation of cell phones, many people see traditional landline phones as antiquated and past their prime. What you may not realize, is that during an emergency, a cell phone may give the 911 operator an approximate GPS location. With a POTS line,…
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Great news! SmartCom has expanded fiber optic routes to businesses in Brownsville, Port Isabel and South Padre Island! A fiber optic connection from SmartCom is fast, and more importantly it’s reliable. Fiber is the right choice for your business: Cloud-based applications run better on fiber Video conferences and cameras stream smoother on fiber Websites and…
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On 24 September 2015, ARIN issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool. ARIN will continue to process and approve requests for IPv4 address blocks. Those approved requests may be fulfilled via the Wait List for Unmet IPv4 Requests, or through the IPv4 Transfer Market. Exhaustion of the ARIN Free Pool does trigger changes in…
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IPv6 is a looming upgrade to IPv4, the Internet’s main communications protocol. IPv6 is needed because IPv4 is running out of addresses to connect new users and new devices to the Internet. IPv6 solves this problem with a vastly expanded address space, but it is not backwards-compatible with IPv4. So ISPs have to upgrade their routing,…
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