History
Via IP’s roots began in a dusty old warehouse in Sydney’s inner west in 1998 with a tiny data centre facility based out of a demountable cooling room. Today Via IP is capable of offering national and global IP services bringing together networks, security and IP services into one managed platform.
In 1998 as a systems integrator, the business was set up to supply medium sized enterprises with professional services and IT procurement. As part of the offering, dialup internet services using Cisco 3620 series routers were provided. By the time ADSL and broadband technologies arrived in Australia, Via IP had a small but loyal customer base of over 2000 business users.
In 2001 a dedicated network services department was created deploying Virtual Private Network’s over broadband or similar technologies. The client base was converted to a Tier 2 Australian ISP, and managed services such as firewall security, email security and user reporting became the focus. In 2004 a dedicated company called Managed Internet and Security Solutions was launched to address the emerging MSP market. Plans to take greater control of the IP network were already underway, with national end to end services for converged business grade networks with end to end QoS on the horizon.
Points of Presence were deployed Australia wide to enable local termination of services for the various best of breed providers. Strategic agreements with most of the major last mile carriers including Telstra, Optus, Uecomm, Nextstep, Pipe, DDA and Big Air, give the ability to aggregate services back to our MPLS core network, providing more granular control and enabling greater flexibility for clients.
On the 5th of July 2008, the company was rebranded to Via IP to better encompass our corporate philosophy:
Our dynamic, high speed, Cisco powered network enables tailor made solutions for all levels of business requiring reliable converged networks.
Highest possible speeds are provided ranging from 1Mbps – 10Gbps at affordable rates. This enables the adoption of higher speed services by clients for voice, video, data.
Today Via IP is a Managed Service Provider that leverages its purpose built, carrier class network to deliver such business services as IP voice, security, WAN/LAN acceleration, video and a wide range of applications via certified partners. Via IP’s core network supports 10Gbps metro Ethernet services with plans to support 40Gbps and 100Gbps services in the near future. With Tier 1 data centre presence Australia wide and direct links to overseas facilities, Via IP is capable of addressing any business requirement.
In the beginning of 2010 Via IP adjusted their corporate philosophy to ‘Delivering tomorrow’s communications’ to better fit the company’s core business. The introduction of B.E.N. (Business Ethernet Network) in March 2010 shows that Via IP is a frontier in providing the best network possible for companies nationwide today and tomorrow.
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