Our Network:
Our fully-owned network components are housed in our secure state-of-the-art data center, where we enjoy 100 Mbps connectivity. We have redundancy in place at our network level, in the form of a border gateway protocol (BGP) enabled DS3 failover, should an Ethernet connectivity issue arise.
Features include:
Security
• 24/7 Physical Uniformed Guards
• Video Surveillance of Data Center and secured areas
• Door alarms
• Electronic key management systems combined with PIN codes at entrances
• Electronic key access with PIN codes for cabinet access
|
|
Fire
• Early warning fire detection
• FM-200 gas fire suppression system |
Cooling
• Fully redundant HVAC cooling system
|
|
Power
• Dual redundant Z Line power supplies to each cabinet
• Redundant Uninterrupted Power System (UPS)
• On site diesel generator back up system
• On site 1-week diesel supply
|
Data Redundancy
• RAID-2 OS Drives
• Failover 8TB RAID-5 SAN Data Storage
|
Connectivity
- good internet speed is 70 ms transfer
- this is what you should expect if you purchased high-speed internet
- the "internet backbone" shows 16 ms transfers
- this is the "average" speed that data transfers form the website to your city (not necessarily to your house)
- Telus™ shows 40 ms transfers
- Telus is a major provider in Canada
- they are a great ISP
- Verizon™ shows 60 ms transfers
- Verizon is a major provider in the U.S.
- they are a good ISP
- ours show 0.2 to 0.8 ms transfer from our servers
(items 1-3 below)
- 140 times faster than "good internet speed"
- 32 times faster than the "internet backbone"
- 120 times faster than Verizon
traceroute to telusplanet.net (161.184.245.22)
- 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 207.176.xxx.xxx (207.176.xxx.xxx) 0.457 ms
2 VLN.Serialx-x-x.GWx.POPx.ALTER.NET (204.92.xx.xx) 0.226 ms
3 125.at-5-0-0.XT2.CAL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.xxx.xxx) 0.612 ms
4 0.so-4-1-0.XT2.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.xxx.xxx) 16.982 ms
5 POS5-0.BR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.xxx.xx) 17.111 ms
6 204.255.xxx.x (204.255.xxx.x) 16.861 ms 16.984 ms
7 bpr4-so-3-0-0.*.savvis.net (208.172.xx.xx) 16.867 ms
8 telus-communications.*.savvis.net (208.173.xx.xx) 16.965 ms
9 edtnabxmbr01.bb.telus.com (154.11.5.2) 40.972 ms
10 host198.77.34.207.in-addr.arpa (207.34.77.198) 40.937 ms
11 161.184.255.250 (161.184.255.250) 41.924 ms
12 www3.telus.net (161.184.245.22) 40.960 ms
traceroute to verizon.net (206.46.232.39)
- 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 207.176.xxx.xxx (207.176.xxx.xxx) 0.399 ms
2 VLN.Serialx-x-x.GWx.POPx.ALTER.NET (204.92.xx.xx) 0.245 ms
3 125.at-5-0-0.XT1.CAL1.ALTER.NET (152.63.xxx.xxx) 0.864 ms
4 0.so-5-0-0.XL3.DFW13.ALTER.NET (152.63.xx.xx) 59.366 ms
5 POS6-0.GW2.DFW13.ALTER.NET (152.63.xxx.xxx) 58.944 ms
6 verizon-*-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.146.38) 61.075 ms
7 po121.ctn-core1.vzlink.com (206.46.225.18) 60.956 ms
8 206.46.229.17 (206.46.229.17) 61.199 ms 60.922 ms
9 206.46.232.34 (206.46.232.34) 61.708 ms
| 
|
| 
