Pathway Communications is a Canadian Internet service provider (ISP) located in Markham, Ontario. It was the first ISP in the world to acquire the ISO 9002 certification, and is currently the only ISP in Canada to be certified with the new ISO 9001-2008 standard.
Established in 1995, Pathway Communications, was the first Canadian company to offer a unified portfolio of Internet, Network Integration and software development services from a single source. Pathway's Managed Internet and Data Centre and Colocation Services are available in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia.
Pathway Communications has the distinction of being showcased as a success story by Sun Microsystems and was the first Internet Service Provider in the world to acquire ISO 9002 certification. Pathway is now certified under the new ISO 9001-2008 standard and all key technical staff and managers are ITIL certified. The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, features and uses Pathway as a case study in successful entrepreneurship as part of its MBA curriculum.
In 2006 Pathway acquired CiteNet Internet, an ISP based in Montreal, Quebec.
The Pathway Group consists of Pathway Communications, CiteNet Internet, NetPulse Services and Teliuvo and delivers Internet, Voice and Long Distance Services and I.T. and Business Process Outsourcing to residential and business clients in Canada.
In Markham, they will also house a new, state-of-the-art Tier III Data Center which has been designed using the latest technology, tools and equipment, for server colocation. The Data Center is one of only two Canadian data centers certified Tier III compliant for reliability by the Uptime Institute.
Famous quotes containing the word pathway:
“Socrates drinking the hemlock,
And Jesus on the rood;
And millions who, humble and nameless,
The straight, hard pathway plod—
Some call it Consecration,
And others call it God.”
—William Herbet Carruth (1859–1929)