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
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Fire
Early warning fire detection
FM-200 gas fire suppression system |
Cooling
Fully redundant HVAC cooling system
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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
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Data Redundancy
RAID-2 OS Drives
Failover 8TB RAID-5 SAN Data Storage
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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
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