Why multi-homed connectivity
Single-carrier internet is a single point of failure.
Most colocation internet is delivered over one upstream carrier. When that carrier has an outage (a misconfiguration, a fibre cut, a national event) your business goes with it. Qu’s connectivity is architected from the ground up to eliminate that failure mode.
The problem
Single-carrier dedicated internet
Fast and simple, until it isn’t. Your provider’s outages and maintenance windows become your incidents, with exactly one path to the internet and no fallback.
The workaround
Building your own multi-homing
S3-compatible Canadian storage that scales from gigabytes to petabytes and plugs into Veeam and your existing pipelines, with encryption at rest and no egress fees.
Qu’s approach
Built in, not bolted on
3–4 Tier 1 carriers connected simultaneously at the network level. Your connectivity inherits that redundancy by default. No BGP, no carrier relationships, no IP space to manage.
Multi-carrier upstream
3–4 tier 1 carriers. Simultaneously.
Qu’s network connects to multiple independent Tier 1 upstream carriers at the same time, not as primary and backup. All carriers carry live traffic. When one has an outage, the others absorb the traffic automatically with no customer action required.
What this means in practice:
- Traffic distributed across 3–4 independent upstream providers at all times
- A national carrier outage does not take you offline
- No single upstream provider controls your path to the internet
- Automatic rerouting at the network level, not the application layer
- You inherit the redundancy without managing carrier contracts or BGP
When Canada’s largest carrier went down.
In July 2022, a single nationwide carrier failure disrupted internet access for an estimated 12 million Canadians. Organizations on single-carrier internet had no fallback. Qu’s multi-homed customers stayed online because no single carrier controls their path to the internet.
Dual redundant links
Two physically separate links to your equipment.
Redundant upstream and a redundant core mean nothing if the last link to your equipment is a single connection. Qu extends the redundancy all the way to your cabinet or cage.
How dual links work:
- Two physically separate connections to your colocation environment
- Typically terminated on dual firewalls in an HSRP failover configuration
- Core switches continuously monitor link health on both paths
- Traffic moves to the secondary path automatically if a link or firewall fails
- Both links carry live traffic, not primary and idle standby
Start small. Scale when you need to.
High bandwidth is table stakes. The real value is elasticity: turning bandwidth up or down as your workloads demand, without a new installation or a new contract.
On-demand bandwidth scaling
Start at 10 Mbps and scale to 100 Mbps or higher without a new install or contract renegotiation.
100 Mbps to 1 Gbps+ ports
High-speed Ethernet ports set the ceiling. Your committed bandwidth sits beneath it and scales within it.
No provisioning delays
Qu manages the network end to end, so bandwidth changes are operational, not infrastructure projects.
Who it is for
Mission-critical connectivity for Canada’s most demanding organizations.
If a connectivity interruption has a consequence (financial, operational, regulatory, or reputational) this is the connectivity layer you need.
- Financial services: transaction processing, trading, payments
- Healthcare: patient-facing systems and regulated data
- Government and public sector: citizen-facing service platforms
- E-commerce and SaaS: where downtime equals revenue loss
- MSPs: reselling connectivity on a reliable upstream
- Enterprise IT: outgrown single-carrier, without wanting to manage BGP
The Canadian sovereignty advantage.
Delivered from Canadian data centres, operated by Canadians, under Canadian law. Foreign-owned connectivity providers in Canada remain subject to foreign legal authority. Qu is Canadian-owned, and that cannot be replicated by contract.
Connectivity is the foundation. Here is what layers on top.
High-availability internet connectivity is the network layer. Qu's interconnection, colocation, and managed services sit alongside it to complete the infrastructure picture.
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Interconnection
Megaport cloud on-ramps, cross connects, carrier-neutral meet-me rooms, and structured cabling.
Colocation
Carrier-neutral colocation across 9 Canadian data centres. The physical home for the infrastructure your connectivity serves.
Managed Network and Security
Managed firewall and network security for your colocated environment, so your team focuses on applications.
Partners worth plugging.
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