Axia connects Strathmore to the world

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

Alberta-based Internet service provider, Axia, has created a high quality and a resilient fibre optic network connecting residential and business users across globe.
The Internet provider is looking to expand their service to smaller communities such as Strathmore and surrounding area, and in September of this year, Axia launched a Generation Axia campaign in effort to bring more fibre optic internet that has reliable capabilities.
The fibre Internet future proof technology means the user will never have to install another line again because Axia uses merging technologies. Secondly, it provides constant connectivity, which allows for more reliability and maximum performance. It can give a user the service they deserve, as it will not go out due to weather delays.
“It’s literally Internet at the speed of light,” said Weston Jacques, Digital Communications Specialist with Axia. “What happens in most of these communities is they have copper wire and the data goes through a hub at the end of the street and from there it kind of goes out. The more that people will use it, the slower it becomes. That’s why these small towns have horrible Internet.
“We’ll build the network, there’s a fibre line that goes from the major network across Alberta to each individual house.”
Jacques said for roughly the last 30 years Axia has built and managed the Alberta Supernet, which is a fibre network that runs all across Alberta. Furthermore, the company worked with the government, to make the service available for hospitals and schools. In turn, the company was in charge of connecting all those places to the next generation network.
Generation Axia is already serving rural Alberta in Nanton, Vulcan, and Nobleford with the vision from the CEO always being to expand into other small towns across the province.
“Our CEO grew up in rural Alberta and he always saw kind of the need for a high speed network if these small towns want to compete with the global market,” he said. “Everybody is going to move to Calgary or Edmonton and there’s really no hope for smaller towns. The vision started there and with a network all across Alberta, it was just connecting from the point of presence in that town and then dividing the network around it so you can take the point from there and connect to each house.”
Jacques added that there has been interest expressed by Wheatland County but thinks it’s a matter of getting everyone on board in their communities.
For more information regarding the service visit www.axia.com/Alberta.