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NetAccess Wins Outstanding Business Achievement Award
NetAccess Celebrates 15th Anniversary!
New Service - VoIP Services
Bandwidth Needs
Network Upgrades
NASMail List Service Promotion
NetAccess Family Updates!

NetAccess Wins Outstanding Business Achievement Award

At a Gala affair held by the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce on March 26, NetAccess Systems Inc. was awarded the 2007 Outstanding Business Achievement award in the category of Communication Technology.

Having been nominated in years past has been an honour in itself to NetAccess, but being the winning recipient this year added an extra sparkle to the event as NetAccess Systems Inc. completes its 15th of providing Internet services.

"Winning the award would be a very gratifying capstone to 15 years of success in the Internet industry", Don McNally, VP of Corporate Development, was quoted as saying in the days preceding the event. At the podium, beside Gary Bannister, President and CEO, McNally graciously thanked all who contributed to their success, including "our wonderful staff", their board of directors, and especially their clients, the Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Hamilton.

Staffed by a group of 10, all of whom are from the Hamilton area, and supported by an extended network of IT and technology partners, NetAccess strives to maintain innovative, customer-centered service solutions in an industry that is in rapid and constant flux. This collaborative approach forms just a part of their unique value added service to clients that enables NetAccess to meet and exceed customer expectations, which in turn, has been key to developing a very loyal client base throughout the Greater Hamilton area. The City of Hamilton, the Hamilton and Halton Boards of Education, the Hamilton Police Services, and many other community organizations all had their first connection through NetAccess. As one of the original independent Internet service providers in the area, NetAccess remains to be one of Canada’s oldest independent ISPs.

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NetAccess Celebrates 15th Anniversary!

May 31st marks the month of NetAccess’ 15th Anniversary. As a token of appreciation to the many partners and clients that have contributed to their success, NetAccess will be hosting an Open House on Thursday, June 5th from 4:00 to 6:30. Mark the date, and watch your e-mail for more details coming soon.

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New Service - VoIP Services

Through our affiliate, Clear Advantage Solutions Inc., NetAccess is able to bring business class voice and data communication services to businesses in our area. Not only can substantial savings in long distance costs be achieved by a VoIP solution, but many other benefits such as increased productivity, teleworking, remote voicemail, and unified messaging can be realized. Whether you just need an additional phone line or a complete phone system replacement there are great solutions available for you. All equipment is provided and installation and support is provided by locally based businesses.

For more information contact sales@nas.net or call Michelle at 905-524-2001 x221.

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Bandwidth Needs

Need to scale up your bandwidth? Turn on some redundancy and resiliency while doing so! As we continue into the future, the demand on your broadband internet connection increases. Bandwidth consumption, issues, and commentary have been all over the news lately. The move towards richer media content, dependency on Internet based services such as VoIP, IPTv, and with many companies moving to new online Internet based applications, these demands become more of a necessity than a novelty.

As you can see in the above chart, bandwidth forecasts are well exceeding the Moore's Law benchmark that we once thought we could follow to forecast traffic growth. Looking at a recent study, average 2007 IP traffic was over 9,000 terrabytes a day for public Internet usage. This study also shows that the forecasted average in 2012 will be over 21,000 terrabytes a day.

If your business platform relies on the Internet and you are forecasting growth in the usage of internet technologies, it would be worthwhile to look at the options available through NetAccess that provide additional bandwidth and redundancy. We offer two ADSL platforms, a line of sight wireless product, and ethernet based fibre-optic products that can all be built on to provide additional bandwidth.

Using our gateway access ADSL platform, up to 8 PPPoE style connections can be aggregated using Multilink bonding technology to achieve an additional performance and redundancy at a very affordable cost.

Our other ADSL platform, which is a bridged PVC style of ADSL uses an IP routing protocol on our provider edge routers and a router on the customer edge to achieve additional performance, redundancy, and resiliency. The bridged platform is architected differently end to end and thus allows for a number of benefits over the gateway access platform (most importantly):

• lower latency
• the ability to be used in solutions requiring private LAN extension technology
• can be combined with our line of sight wireless and fibre optic products as means to provide a backup connection using alternate delivery media

We work with our clients to build custom solutions that standout from the regular canned solutions offered by other providers. If you are outgrowing your current needs, give us a call, and we'll strive to build you a solution which fits your current needs, and is scalable into the future. For information on how you can take advantage of these latest strategies for adding additional Internet capacity, contact sales@nas.net or call Michelle at 905-524-2001 x221.

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Network Upgrades

NetAccess has made a substantial investment in upgrading its internal network structure. The purchase of additional Cisco routers and switches has enabled NetAccess to upgrade its core network infrastructure to gigabit speeds as well as improved redundancy and reliability of its network. As an example, NetAccess has fully redundant and load balanced 100 Mbps Internet connections which use BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) routing protocols to provide the ultimate in network integrity and performance.

For more information contact sales@nas.net or call Michelle at 905-524-2001 x221.

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NASMail List Service Promotion

If you are considering starting an email list or looking for a better way to manage an existing email list, then consider NetAccess’ NASMail List Service which is based on LISTSERV by L-Soft. LISTSERV is a powerful email list management software solution that sets the industry standard. It allows you to easily create and manage opt-in email lists, such as email newsletters, announcement lists and discussion groups.

Pricing for email lists have dropped substantially and you can now try a new list at no monthly cost for the first two months. Let NASMail List Service show you how easy it can be to handle the administration problems associated with all email lists. NASMail List Service provides automatic subscriptions, automatic bounce handling, personalization, searchable web archives, and a simple web interface, among many other features.

For more information contact sales@nas.net or call Michelle at 905-524-2001 x221.

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New to the NetAccess Family!

We are proud to announce the addition of three more members to our NetAccess family!

Jason Hersey is the proud father of daughter number three, Natalia Sara Marlene Hersey, born December 27th. Peter Wright is the proud father of son number two. Jacob (Jack) Palmer Wright was born February 25th. And last, but certainly not least, Lorraine Merola gave birth to Sophie Eveline Raso on April 8th, their second child. Best wishes go out to all.

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