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We took great care in researching and selecting only the
highest quality Tier 1 bandwidth providers for our network to
ensure we provide low latency and high availability to all
locations both domestically and abroad.
Level(3) was recently
named as the #1 IP transit provider in both North America and
Europe by Renesys Corp, an independent research firm. Level(3)
operates one of the world's largest, newest and most advanced
Tier 1 telecommunications networks. The network spans 23,000
intercity route miles and serves the worlds 10 largest phone
companies, 10 largest Internet service providers, and 6 largest
cable providers. They were also ranked in the top 10 globally
for Asia-Pacific connectivity by Renesys and are currently
ranked #1 in the world by CAIDA.
Sprint operates one of
the world's largest Tier 1 IP networks - connecting over 25% of
the world's Internet traffic. The Sprint IP backbone has more
Autonomous System network connections than any other, with
high-speed links that operate up to OC-192 / STM-64 - the
fastest speeds available over IP today.
Sprint was recently ranked the #1 IP transit provider in Asia,
#2 in Europe, and #4 in North America by Renesys Corp, an
independent research firm. Sprint's IP network is second highest
ranked network in CAIDA's ranking of Autonomous Systems in the
entire world.
Savvis operates a global
Tier 1 network that spans 105 cities in 47 countries,
encompassing the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, The Middle
East, Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Savvis network reliability was declared 'Perfect' in Network
World magazine's study of ISP backbone performance achieving a
100-percent uptime rating and theoretical minimum rates for a
beam of light traveling cross-country. Known as the 'The Network
that Powers Wall Street' Savvis provides network services to
over 4,500 financial institutions including 75 of the top 100
banks in the world and 45 of the top 50 brokerage firms in the
United States. Savvis was recently ranked in the top 10 for
Global IP Transit, North American Transit, and Asia-Pacific
transit.
NTT Communications
operates a high quality Tier 1 IP backbone with direct
connection to major ISPs in Asia, the U.S., Europe and Oceania.
The network currently boasts the industry's largest dedicated
Internet bandwidth of 185Gbps between Japan and U.S and 65Gbps
to the Asia-Pacific region to provide end users with fast
Internet connections globally. The network currently operates
with 4.3Tbps total backbone capacity, and 705Gbps peering
capacity. NTT was recently rated in the Top 5 for Global IP
Transit and Asia-Pacific Transit.
Our robust and scalable network utilizes only routing and
switching products from industry-leaders Cisco Systems and
Juniper Networks. We use Juniper M-series routers in our border
routing layer and Cisco 3750 series switch stacks in our core
switching and aggregation layer. This setup is fully meshed with
redundant internal and external fiber connections for maximum
reliability. At the client access level we use Cisco 2960 series
switches for both our public and private networks. These
switches are connected in a bonded, redundant fashion to our
core layer to not only enhance reliability but to reduce the
risk of congestion and provide maximum throughput.
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