by admin | Jul 5, 2008 | Announcements
DYRD-AM Worldwide will celebrate its 1st year anniversary on July 8, 2008 with a special program to commemorate the successful broadcast of DYRD-AM around the world through www.dyrdam.com website. Auza.Net is proud to have sustained this endeavor for this long and the company continues its commitment to serve the Boholano community through the online broadcast for many more years to come. Please listen to the launching ceremonies held on July 8, 2007 at the Prawn Farm at the Island City...
by admin | Jun 9, 2008 | Announcements
This year’s on-the-job-trainees or OJTs culminated the 2008 Summer OJT program in a simple but memorable celebration at the Auza.Net activity center on June 7, 2008. The OJTs expressed their gratitude for the knowledge and experienced gained over the previous two months. This year’s OJT program focused on web development using WordPress. The OJTs were able to develop and/or update at least 14 websites in coordination with various partner organizations including the Bohol Tourism Council, KIA, K&N Productions, Philippine Information Agency and DYRD-FM. Visit our OJT website at www.techsier.org for more details on the OJT program of...
by admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Announcements
Auza.Net completed Tagbilaran’s first wireless mesh network on April 8, 2008 with its first mesh node installed in Catarman, Dauis, Bohol. The mesh node connects to the gateway node at the company’s facilities and will enable network connections from the city to Panglao, Dauis and Baclayon. The company installed its gateway node in December 2007 to serve clients in the vicinity of the company. Businesses requiring private networks or business grade Internet access service may now avail of such services allowing them to do business in the coverage area. Because the service is wireless, installation is quick and can usually be completed in one day. Private networks allow companies to interconnect their businesses without exposing company information and data to the Internet, increasing security. It also avoids the latency and complexity involved in using residential grade Internet services for private networks which can significantly decrease performance of company applications. Each node can serve customers up to 10kms away and can be given flexible network bandwidth capacities. With a total capacity of 10MBPS, the mesh network is capable of serving large network requirements. Currently 5MBPS is used or reserved by existing clients of Auza.net and the system may be upgraded with another 10MBPS capacity as needed. The mesh network has proven to be stable and reliable with latency from customer to gateway node at 10ms average only. Packet loss was recorded at 17 packets per million which is virtually zero packet...
by admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Announcements
The Summer OJT program of Auza.Net for 2008 will start on April 9 with at least 15 qualified candidates from a total of 29 applicants. The promising students will be given real-world application of their knowledge in IT. In 2007, the OJT program resulted to the release of the worldwide broadcast of DYRD-AM via http://www.dyrdam.com. The website http://www.boholweb.com was relaunched also on that year. In that year also as well as in previous years, the OJTs were able to implement various networking requirement for Auza.Net’s office and customers. This year, Auza.Net will attempt to scale up significantly the effort to publish useful business, educational, and entertainment information. Several websites will be implemented and a lot of information will be collected and published. The company hopes to help businesses and organization find useful information quickly and at the same time provide a venue for advertising companies, products and services for free to help small and medium businesses in promotions. With a large team of OJTs this year, the company anticipates a fast paced OJT program this year. The team at Auza.Net welcomes its OJTs for Summer...
by admin | Mar 28, 2008 | Announcements
Auza.Net sponsors the website of the Philippine Tarsier Foundation, Inc. starting March 2008. The website address is http://www.tarsierfoundation.org. The company hopes that by providing information about one of Bohol’s icons, the tarsier, it can contribute to its preservation. The foundation is currently encouraging donors to support its various programs. For more details, please send email to...
by admin | Feb 15, 2008 | Announcements
Auza.Net now supports an enterprise ready accounting system that has all functionalities required by any business, big or small, through an SAAS (Software As A Service) model starting February 2008. Auza.Net uses SQL-Ledger from (www.sql-ledger.org), an open source double entry accounting system that is web based and feature rich. The cost of maintaining an electronic record of all company transactions will be dramatically reduced through this service. At the same time, connectivity with branches and satellite offices will no longer become an issue assuming these are connected to the Internet. In the SAAS model, the computers containing the application are hosted at a data center with multiple network connections, multiple power sources and highly secure facilities. This ensures very minimal downtime, if any, at the same time, spreads out the cost of the system on a monthly basis. To setup up your own servers with high uptime and reliability, you need at least multiple Internet connections, backup power and high quality hardware. For this, you can easily spend Php 100,000. Then add the monthly costs for manpower, maintenance, power failures and insurance, it can easily cost another Php 3,000 to 5,000 monthly. SAAS allows you to start the service with minimal upfront costs and at reasonable monthly fees (this varies depending on the level of services required). The servers are hosted in the U.K. and uses a Solaris based platform which is known for its rock-solid stability. Security, availability and reliability are assured by the provider while allowing the customers to perform their own local backups for added security of the data. In SAAS model, the subscriber does not...
by admin | Dec 11, 2007 | Tips and Tricks
With crime rate already on the rise in Tagbilaran City, video surveillance has become a necessity for many businesses and homes to help deter attacks from criminal elements and prevent employee pilferage of company materials and inventory. You bought the video cameras that record the data digitally on your computer. Now what should you do next? It is now possible to view the monitored areas remotely using the Internet as the “path” for the data. A business owner travelling in Manila can open his browser on his laptop, connect to the Internet and then open up the camera’s IP address to view the video stream. However, not all Internet access services will work properly with video stream. An important thing to note is that published bandwidths of most Internet subscriptions are for the download data traffic. Upload traffic is normally very small compared to download traffic. Video cameras upload the video data so at the camera location, you need to get an Internet access service with data rates for upload and download are the same and if you foresee that you will be viewing the video stream for 24×7, you need to get dedicated Internet access service. Otherwise, the video, when viewed remotely, will be very choppy. It is also possible to avoid using the Internet for the video stream path as long as you are able to deploy your own branch office connections within Tagbilaran or subscribe to wide area network services that may be provided in your area. A local area interconnection service will provide a very low latency from the server location to the client...
by admin | Dec 9, 2007 | What's New?
A very interesting service that Google, the largest search engine on the Internet, has recently released for beta use is called Google Trends. It allows the user to see the search volume for a certain keyword for the past few years. This information is very powerful if you are relying on the Internet for marketing or selling your products. For example, if you are in the tourism industry, you would know if the keyword Bohol has gained more popularity over other provinces. You would also know if which cities in the Philippines the search volume originated. That then enables you to target certain cities for your Internet marketing effort. Have a look at this and you will see that search volume for the keyword Bohol has increased slightly in 2007 compared to previous years. However, when compared with Cebu, you will see that Cebu has been searched on a much higher scale vs. Bohol and this search volume has increased significantly in 2007. The Bohol trend is actually relatively flat when viewed together with Cebu. What does this mean? This could mean a lot of things, like we are not marketing Bohol as much as Cebu, or there are much lesser people interested in doing business in Bohol vs. Cebu and so on. There could be a lot of reasons but that is beyond the scope of this article. Google trends can be a very powerful tool for Internet based business activities. You should try it...
by admin | Dec 9, 2007 | Tips and Tricks
Probably one of the commonly used yet most misunderstood technologies is the Internet. And perhaps its most misunderstood element is the capacity of a user’s Internet access subscription often termed as Internet Bandwidth. With the proliferation of Internet access services priced at around Php1000 per month or even lower with bandwidths published as “up-to” 2MBPS or even higher, many frustrated users ask why is a 2MBPS connection still slow to load a normal webpage? Internet connection from the Philippines going out to the world is done through submarine fiber optic cables going from the Philippines to Taiwan, Hongkong and other countries that serve as hubs for interconnections. Just image the cost of laying out thousands of kilometers of expensive cables submerged into deep ocean, then include the cost of operating it and repairing any cable faults. That’s not going to be cheap to use this interconnection service. The very large bandwidth specifications published by many Internet Service Providers, including telcos like PLDT, Smart and Globe, is generally a marketing ploy. It gives you an illusion that your connection is going to be very fast. And this is true, when you are the only one using it. When you look at the fine print, most likely you will see a zero committed information rate or CIR, which technically means they are not committing to any service rate at all. So in order to be able to offer Internet access at Php1000/month given that the international connections is expensive, the service providers “share” the connection among its subscribers. A 2MBPS connection with zero CIR is probably shared by a hundred or...
by admin | Dec 3, 2007 | Announcements
Auza.Net deployed the initial wireless node for its wireless mesh network in Tagbilaran City on December 4, 2007. A first in Tagbilaran and in Bohol, the project is part of the company’s thrust to provide carrier grade network services that may be used for high quality Internet access with dedicated bandwidth, private networks to connect branch offices and surveillance applications. With a total capacity of 10MBPS (upgradeable in 10MBPS increments), the infrastructure is expected to provide multiple services for the company’s clients. At high density areas, prepaid WiFi service will also be deployed. Auza.Net used the SkyPilot family of products distributed by RAY Networks, Inc. to implement its wireless mesh network. The mesh network can serve clients with business grade Internet connectivity requirements such as call centers and other BPO firms. Businesses requiring online transactions between its branches or partners within the service area can also subscribe to Auza.Net’s private network service. City wide video surveillance requirements is also possible. Latency between service nodes is expected to be within 15ms for single hop nodes, allowing for real-time applications to be implemented throughout the city. Busineses can simultaneously access POS applications, video surveillance and the Internet across their branches and partners. Service bandwidth specifications are sold at 64kbps increments and is currently limited to the initial capacity of 10MBPS. Clients expecting to require such services should contact Auza.Net via at info@auza.net. Please state your network capacity requirement, locations and expected service start and duration. Currently we already have a reservation of 4MBPS total. The wireless mesh network is expected to be operational with the initial clients on December 8, 2007...
