Yipes Powers Listing Service for Dallas-Fort Worth Realtors
📅 - Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of Ethernet services, announced yesterday that its gigabit optical networks nowpower the fifth largest multiple listing service in the United States, NorthTexas Real Estate Information Systems, Inc. (ntreis-mls.com).
Owned by 18 non-profit Realtor associations in the greater Dallas-Fort Wortharea, NTREIS lists properties over an area of 20,000 square miles for 15,000subscribers, including 3,000 real estate offices. NTREIS is migrating from adial-up data network to the Internet for gathering information anddistributing listings. Posting an average of 10,000 new photos to theInternet each month, NTREIS outgrew the two fixed T-1 lines it leased fromthe phone company. Last year, when it installed servers in a new co-locationfacility in Dallas, the real estate organization switched to Yipes' opticalnetworks for high-speed Internet service.
"I liked Yipes' innovative technology, its dual-homed Internet backbones andits very competitive price," said James Harrison, CEO of NTREIS. "Ourresponse time has greatly improved since getting Yipes."
A key factor in Harrison's choice of Yipes was the network's unique abilityto change bandwidth from 1 Megabit per second all the way up to 1000 Mbps,in 1 Mbps increments. Unlike traditional networks, Yipes lets customersadjust their service level through a Web portal, without waiting for newcircuits and without having to buy and install new equipment at the customerpremise.
"Yipes' scalability was really important to us," Harrison said. "Our demandvaries greatly with seasonal trends, and I wanted to be able to raise orlower our bandwidth accordingly. We have already doubled our bandwidth fromYipes to 6 Mbps as we have migrated more users to the Internet and our needscould nearly double again by the end of the year. We will require even morebandwidth when we begin to host virtual home tours, giving buyers theability to view rooms from all angles via the Web."
Owned by 18 non-profit Realtor associations in the greater Dallas-Fort Wortharea, NTREIS lists properties over an area of 20,000 square miles for 15,000subscribers, including 3,000 real estate offices. NTREIS is migrating from adial-up data network to the Internet for gathering information anddistributing listings. Posting an average of 10,000 new photos to theInternet each month, NTREIS outgrew the two fixed T-1 lines it leased fromthe phone company. Last year, when it installed servers in a new co-locationfacility in Dallas, the real estate organization switched to Yipes' opticalnetworks for high-speed Internet service.
"I liked Yipes' innovative technology, its dual-homed Internet backbones andits very competitive price," said James Harrison, CEO of NTREIS. "Ourresponse time has greatly improved since getting Yipes."
A key factor in Harrison's choice of Yipes was the network's unique abilityto change bandwidth from 1 Megabit per second all the way up to 1000 Mbps,in 1 Mbps increments. Unlike traditional networks, Yipes lets customersadjust their service level through a Web portal, without waiting for newcircuits and without having to buy and install new equipment at the customerpremise.
"Yipes' scalability was really important to us," Harrison said. "Our demandvaries greatly with seasonal trends, and I wanted to be able to raise orlower our bandwidth accordingly. We have already doubled our bandwidth fromYipes to 6 Mbps as we have migrated more users to the Internet and our needscould nearly double again by the end of the year. We will require even morebandwidth when we begin to host virtual home tours, giving buyers theability to view rooms from all angles via the Web."
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