Modern Data Center

Our servers are housed in a modern data center which has :

• Superior Network Reliability
• Accelerated Time to Market
• Scalability
• 24 x 7 monitoring
• 24 x 7 on-call staff
• Raised floors
• HVAC,Separate cooling zones
• Multiple levels of security
• 24x7 card key access
• Biometric hand scan entry system
• Video surveillance
• Multiple levels of Fire suppression
• Early Warning System
• FM-200 gas-based fire suppression system
• Double pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
• Multiple redundant Power back-up
• Continuous, uninterruptible power supply
• Multiple standby generators
• Environmental Monitoring Systems
• Maintain constant temperature and humidity

Connectivity

• Tier-1 network
• 2 OC-12's with Qwest and MCI connecting to Verio Chicago and Verio Palo Alto
• 2 OC-3s with Qwest and MCI connecting to the same points
• OC-192 Fiber to the data center

• 2 Juniper M20 Backbone Routers
• 2 Foundry BigIron4000 Giga Ethernet Switches
• 4 Cisco 6500 Aggregation Switch/Routers, These routers have multiple connections to our backbone routers.

The backbone is a Tier 1 backbone.
Here is a link to our network map http://home.verio.net/company/technology/networkmapWORLD.cfm

The data center has connections to many different Internet backbones including UUNet, Sprint, Cable and Wireless, CRL, Qwest, Exodus, Agis and Net Axs. We also have private and direct peering DS3's set up between our location and that of American Online and PSI-Net. The data center also operates its own DS3 to Mae East to peer with many of the smaller Tier One providers as well as operating another DS3 to the ATM switch located there.

By connecting to multiple backbones, the data can be distributed through many sources. This architectural design also means that the network connections are not dependent upon any single Internet backbone. Thus when problems occur, traffic rerouting is automatic, thereby ensuring the integrity of the network and continued access for our high-speed servers. This takes the term "multi-homing" to a whole new level.

Presently bandwidth utilization is 25% during peak traffic times. Therefore, the network is very flexible. If one of the backbone connections experiences problems, the traffic can simply be rerouted over other paths, thereby ensuring that users receive fast access times to sites hosted on our network.

In addition, the network runs Border Gate Protocol (BGP4). BGP is used at a provider with more than one access point to the Internet. It helps create a truly redundant network. In fact, in an ideal situation, a lease line failure should result in the BGP routing session to close on the bad leased line and the router on a working circuit should then begin to accept the additional traffic.

In other words, traffic from a down circuit is redistributed across other circuits, thereby maintaining network integrity. Providers that are multi-homed and correctly setup can actually be more reliable than a single backbone provider because they have multiple paths to multiple providers.