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Our Hosting Network
Great servers and features will get you nowhere without a wide pipe. If
you've hosted before on a T1 or even OC3 connection, you're in for a pleasant
surprise.
Our Network Operations Center is "OnNet" with Frontier Global
Center (FGC), which means that we have a direct fiber optic connection
between our Cisco 7200 router and theirs. Being OnNet with a Tier-1 provider
means that we don't link to a backbone, we are actually on a backbone.
We have no phone circuit, and don't use a Telecom link to get to the Internet;
instead, we have an in-house connection directly to FGC's ATM fiber node,
located a few floors below our servers in the same building. This fiber
optic line can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3, and with FGC's
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, it can handle several
times the bandwidth of an OC3.
Multiple Backbones
We share the digital distribution architecture of FGC, which is comprised
of more than 25 high-speed private peering connections to major Internet
carriers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, and others.
FGC also has high-speed links to 8 public exchanges including both MAE
East and West and several NAPS. To use an analogy, the private peering
connections allow data to travel from New York to LA on a non-stop flight,
while the public exchanges enable data to fly into the Spokane, Washington
airport.
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