Network

To ensure the best routing of our customers' data, we pay for commercial top-priority transit network capacity to tier 1 backbone providers and have full burst capacity available at all times on all circuits. Thus we receive the highest level of service, from our data centre and network providers.

Tier 1 transit providers include:

90%+ of traffic from us to end users only passes over one or two backbones on its way to reaching the end destination. In addition, we are committed to under 50% network capacity utilization at all times; we ensure that our network always has double the capacity it needs, even at peak hours.

The network design and operations ensure the very best connectivity, speed, and reliability possible,allowing us to pass on our data centre's promise of 100% network uptime, no packet loss, and under 3 ms low latency connection to Tier 1 backbones guaranteed.

Physical Data Centre Network

The local network within the Data Centre is arranged in four logical segments:

	Core Redundant Cisco 12012 GSR routers connected to the Internet and the rest of our national coast-to-coast network via numerous Gigabit Ethernet lines; running the full BGP4 protocol, thus ensuring route optimization and redundancy.
	Distribution A Redundant Catalyst 4912G master switches that ensure a fully redundant switching fabric between the core routers and the DistB distribution switches.
Distribution B Redundant high-end Cisco Catalyst 6509 MSFC2 / Supervisor 2 master routing switches that distribute access to the physical and virtual LANs and route internal traffic.
Access Redundantly connected Cisco Catalyst 2924XL EE switches to which all servers are connected. Each and every server gets a full 100Mb/s full duplex port to the access layer.

All servers are housed in open racks in order to allow easy access and better air flow. Access to the Data Centre is restricted and therefore secure cages are not required.