Ygnition
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Ygnition is an American
private cable operator (PCO) and broadband Internet services company headquartered in Seattle, Washington
focused on the MDU
market. It is a privately held company with backers including ComVentures, a venture capital
firm based in Palo Alto, California
, Advanced Equities and Chrysalis Ventures. Prior to November 2003, the company went by the name Interquest Communications.
s. Ygnition will bundle Internet and VOIP service with its cable TV offering if the contract allows. These exclusivity contracts were made illegal by FCC ruling 07-889 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-277772A1.doc on October 31, 2007. Cable companies have tried to fight this law but the ruling was upheld May 26 of this year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.gg
As of 2007, Ygnition has Internet access available to 150,000 apartment units and Cable television service available to 50,000 units across seven states.
As Ygnition extends its market through acquisitions, it is also expanding the services offered. Ygnition is expanding into the VOIP market through partnerships with various VOIP wholesalers. Ygnition purchases cable and satellite television service from providers like DISH network and others, then redistributes them through their networks. Internet service is delivered to its service locations from anywhere from a single T1 to OC3 or ethernet over fiber, however multiple T1 circuits is the most common method.
Ygnition uses traffic shaping
to prioritize voice over IP (VOIP) traffic. Traffic shaping gives highier priority to latency sensitive communication (VOIP) by delaying latency insensitive communication (large file transfers).
"Use of IAS, E-Mail Storage. Subject to the compliance by Subscriber with all Terms and Conditions of this Agreement, and in exchange for recurring payment of subscription fees, Subscriber shall have the right to use the IAS for accessing the Internet, and for sending and receiving e-mail. Subscriber shall have the right to store up to and including ten Megabytes (10 MB) of e-mail data on the Ygnition Networks server. Subscriber shall be automatically charged a monthly storage for each Megabyte of data in excess of the Free Storage Amount"
For $74.95 a month the subscriber gains 1 static IP address.
Pricing can vary by market and bundled services.
space is provided beyond the 10 MB e-mail storage space. However, it is similar to other services in that subscribers are prohibited from hosting
their own websites by the no server policy.
Ygnition offers unlimited internet connection time. They do place limits and restrictions on subscriber internet activities. Access to file sharing and downloading is limited and can, at Ygnition's sole discretion, result in service termination.
in Houston. Ygnition has a C- BBB rating in Dallas, Texas and Seattle, Washington.
United States
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private cable operator (PCO) and broadband Internet services company headquartered in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
focused on the MDU
Multi-family residential
Multi-family residential is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. A common form is an apartment building...
market. It is a privately held company with backers including ComVentures, a venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firm based in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
, Advanced Equities and Chrysalis Ventures. Prior to November 2003, the company went by the name Interquest Communications.
History
Ygnition was founded in September, 2001 as a broadband Internet services company, acquiring the assets of a number of bankrupt or distressed broadband service providers. In late 2003, Ygnition launched cable television service at a number of its apartment communities and \apartment building owners or developers of condominiums which previously allowed them to be the exclusive provider of certain services to residents of the apartments and condoCondominium
A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...
s. Ygnition will bundle Internet and VOIP service with its cable TV offering if the contract allows. These exclusivity contracts were made illegal by FCC ruling 07-889 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-277772A1.doc on October 31, 2007. Cable companies have tried to fight this law but the ruling was upheld May 26 of this year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.gg
As of 2007, Ygnition has Internet access available to 150,000 apartment units and Cable television service available to 50,000 units across seven states.
As Ygnition extends its market through acquisitions, it is also expanding the services offered. Ygnition is expanding into the VOIP market through partnerships with various VOIP wholesalers. Ygnition purchases cable and satellite television service from providers like DISH network and others, then redistributes them through their networks. Internet service is delivered to its service locations from anywhere from a single T1 to OC3 or ethernet over fiber, however multiple T1 circuits is the most common method.
Ygnition uses traffic shaping
Traffic shaping
Traffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds of packets that meet certain criteria...
to prioritize voice over IP (VOIP) traffic. Traffic shaping gives highier priority to latency sensitive communication (VOIP) by delaying latency insensitive communication (large file transfers).
Services provided by Ygnition
As per Ygnition's service agreement for $49.95 a month, the subscriber may have 2 Email accounts and;"Use of IAS, E-Mail Storage. Subject to the compliance by Subscriber with all Terms and Conditions of this Agreement, and in exchange for recurring payment of subscription fees, Subscriber shall have the right to use the IAS for accessing the Internet, and for sending and receiving e-mail. Subscriber shall have the right to store up to and including ten Megabytes (10 MB) of e-mail data on the Ygnition Networks server. Subscriber shall be automatically charged a monthly storage for each Megabyte of data in excess of the Free Storage Amount"
For $74.95 a month the subscriber gains 1 static IP address.
Pricing can vary by market and bundled services.
Services not provided for by Ygnition
Ygnition does not host web sites. No ServerServer (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
space is provided beyond the 10 MB e-mail storage space. However, it is similar to other services in that subscribers are prohibited from hosting
Hosting
Hosting can mean:* To act as the organizer or master of ceremonies for an event.* Self-hosting - software distribution which provides all necessary source code to enable itself to be re-compiled from scratch* Internet hosting service, including:...
their own websites by the no server policy.
Ygnition offers unlimited internet connection time. They do place limits and restrictions on subscriber internet activities. Access to file sharing and downloading is limited and can, at Ygnition's sole discretion, result in service termination.
Ygnition's BBB Ratings
Ygnition has an Unsatisfactory rating with the Better Business BureauBetter Business Bureau
The Better Business Bureau , founded in 1912, is a corporation consisting of several private business franchises of local BBB organizations based in the United States and Canada, which work through their parent corporation, the Council of Better Business Bureaus .The Better Business Bureau, through...
in Houston. Ygnition has a C- BBB rating in Dallas, Texas and Seattle, Washington.