Solway Communications operates a fast fibre-optic and wireless network in and around Carlisle providing high-performance internet and telephone services with local, responsive 24/7 support at competitive prices. Our network, centred on our own highly resilient and secure local data-centre with many days’ stand-by power and redundancy of every system, has multiple independent direct links to the Internet Super Highway. All connections are direct to the office or home by Fibre-To-The-Premises or microwave wireless, offering effectively unlimited capacity. Uniquely amongst area Internet networks, the high performance of our connections is guaranteed. This ia achieved, not just by high maximum theoretical throughput capacities (“speeds”), but by very low rates of packet-loss and latency as well as dynamic selection of optimum traffic routes. Responsive 24/7 support is made possible by continuous monitoring, every 15 seconds, of the network up to and including customers’ routers. Support, when needed, is delivered by a local support team, operating 24/7, based in the coverage area and familiar with the network and the customers. Solway pricing is competitive with the major telecommunication companies at all levels of service and offers major saving on Direct Internet Access (“Leased Line”) connections.