Our Dedicated Network

Our dedicated network extends from New York through DC and Virginia and into Illinois. Its major POPs and transit/peering points are in Washington, DC, McLean, Virginia, Ashburn, Virginia, New York City, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. The network is entirely Cisco-based and uses the latest equipment in a fully redundant, fully meshed, network design.

Optimal routing of packets is assured through intelligent human and proprietary technology assisted deployment of BGP: we are actively monitoring the performance of the Internet as a whole, as well as specific routes and backbones, and always ensure to provide the most optimal outgoing route. 85%+ of outgoing destinations are automatically probed over each and every one of the links every 5 minutes, and consequently the actual best performing route is selected and installed in the BGP tables. This provides a performance and reliability level far superior to conventional BGP.

Being of a smaller scale than other comparable business models (such as InterNAP or Savvis) ensures that our transit quality is higher, as there is less overhead and the routes are more direct (less hops) and thus more efficient -- and ultimately, faster and more reliable.

In addition to being fully redundant hardware and circuit wise, the network is also fault tolerant in the sense that it is consistently kept at under 50% utilization, which means that it is able to sustain a doubling in traffic with no performance hit, and likewise is able to easily sustain multiple tier 1 backbone link outages, with no performance impact whatsoever.

Transit and Peer Connections

Our network consists of a hybrid of top-SLA major tier 1 transit links, as well as numerous direct peering sessions with major National & International networks, backbones, ISPs, cable and DSL providers. This "best-of-the-best" approach ensures the best QoS possible for packet delivery via the Internet today.

The current tier 1 transit providers are: Sprint, AT&T, GlobalCrossing, AboveNet, Allegiance and Cogent.

The current peer list cannot be disclosed due to the confidentiality of peering, but, it includes most of North America's major access providers (ISP/cable/DSL), as well as many of the largest Asian and European backbones, numbering in the hundreds of total peer networks. New peering sessions are established on a regular basis.

Our bandwidth consists of the best performing route being chosen from over 100 networks whom we directly peer with and certain major tier 1 transit providers of ours that we use to connect to the few networks with whom we do not peer with yet. Our industry-leading SLA of 100% network uptime also applies. (Our bandwidth is superior to most others' "premium" connectivity)