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Our network utilizes routing and switching products from Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems, the leaders in the industry. We utilize redundant Juniper M20 and M5 routers as border routers, Cisco 6509 (SUP720) routers as our core routers/switches and Cisco 2950/2960 switches in our aggregation/customer layer. Additional network equipment includes an InterNAP FCP to optimize network routing and performance and RioRey DDoS mitigation hardware on each of our incoming carriers, allowing us to mitigate multi-gigabit DoS/DDoS attacks. In addition, 10 Gigabit Ethernet is used at the core of the network to reduce the risks of internal congestion due to DDoS attacks and to maintain optimal flexibility.
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Our network is fully meshed, using BGP, and redundant with a wide selection of backbone providers, including Level(3), Savvis, AT&T, MCI/Verizon Business, XO, PCCW Global, TeliaSonera, and supplemented by local peering. We took care in choosing our carriers; our research showed them to be some of the fastest and most reliable networks available. Not only are the providers redundant, but their entry paths are redundant as well. Some carriers are brought into the network at Equinix and carried down three floors to our data center over redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines while several pairs of fiber also conect us to provider in the building Meet-Me Room (MMR). In the building there is also fiber from dozens of other companies such as Global Crossing, Abovenet, Qwest, and Sprint and easy access to the Equinix peering fabric as well as the Chicago Internet Exchange. |
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