New Rates

We have recently reviewed all our rates. In summary, our rates are on average lower. In some country experiencing political, economical or environmental problems like Libya, USA and Japan, rates have increased. In countries where there is more competition or that are experiencing long time stability, rates have decreased like South Korea and most countries in Europe.

Rates are like the stock market, they reflect the overall health of a country. The lower the rates the more likely the country is healthy. And when rates go down or up, it indicates whether the country is improving or not.

Tribair's point of presence...

Cloud computing is everywhere. Nowadays, I can't open a newspaper without reading the same article again and again about what cloud computing really means and its benefits.

But cloud computing isn't new, it was already there 20 years ago when we were then talking about client-server architecture.

This been said, cloud computing is adding some (interesting) fuzziness in the equation: you don't really know where the "server" is.

The "server" can be a small virtualized slice of a server somewhere in Malaysia, or a cluster of 1,000 machines in Palo Alto, or a cluster of machines distributed in many different locations.

You can see Tribair as a cloud. Do you know where we are? Let me tell you a little bit about our "PoPs".

A PoP is a Point of Presence, where we have VoIP servers. The closer the PoP is to you, the better chance we have to avoid internet hazards (packet loss, latency, jitter…) between you and us, and better the call quality will be.

Now, you got me, we don't just have one dusty server sitting under my desk to run the Tribair service.

We don't have the resources (yet) to have a PoP at every corner… so we had to make choices.

It may be true with Web hosting, but with VoIP, not all "PoPs" are equal. 

The INTER-NET is indeed a very complex INTERconnection of NETworks, and everywhere you have a net, you have "hot spots" we call HUBs.

Hubs like in the airline industry (another inter-net) where, for instance, Atlanta is a HUB for Delta.

Delta's presence in Atlanta is oversized for Delta's local customer based but Atlanta is as a transfer point to get passengers to their intended destination.

When you know where are the Internet Transfer Points, the Internet Hubs, aka Internet Exchange Points, you'll have a pretty good idea where our servers are. The closer we are to a Hub, the closer we are to you!