Data Center

In order to provide you the best hosting experience possible, we have a chosen a world class data center to house all our equipment and to provide reliable, high performance connectivity to the internet.  Located at Harbour Center in downtown Vancouver Canada, our data center is close to the the US border and offers a direct high bandwidth connection to Seattle.

Network Infrastructure  

Data Security

Unlike at some other data centers which aggregate client routing through hubs, our internal network is on a dedicated ethernet segment. This protects the confidentiality of traffic within the data center itself.

Multiple Internet Gateways   Peer1   Group Telecom   ATT   WorldCom

Our dedicated segment is connected to two custom routers on a core Cisco network. These routers provide the gateways to the machines on our internal network, and employ BGP to advertise the IP space assigned. The system ensures traffic is routed via the most appropriate link. Routing over multiple links can be tailored to effectively facilitate traffic modeling based on the business factors of each bandwidth provider.

BGP4 Routing

The network runs the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP4) for best case routing. Our entirely switched, Cisco powered network employs HSRP (N+1 hot fail over) to ensure that data can be routed even in the event of a router fail over. The BGP4 protocol is a standard that allows for the evaluation of each packet of information sent out from the network. Because of our redundant network architecture, packets may be sent via alternative routes even if they are being delivered to the same end user! This also allows for packets to be redirected via another route if network congestion on the public Internet becomes overwhelming.

The routers are connected to each switch with gigabit links (once the GBICs arrive), and are connected together with a gigabit link. Peers are currently connected with copper and fibre 100Mbit Ethernet interfaces an OC-3 ATM interface. There are also six (6) staff switches, which are also connected to the core switches on the 100 Megabit ports.

Scalability   

Network utilization is constantly being monitored. If it starts to approach 40% of capacity during heaviest peak times, more bandwidth is acquired from our network backbone providers.

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