| Network Connection |
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| - location
of the server: |
Baltimore,
Maryland (USA) |
| - connection: |
in house connection
"OnNet" with Frontier Global Center, a Tier 1 provider |
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- means that the server is actually on a backbone |
| - link: |
fiber optic
cable directly to FGC's ATM fiber node (Cisco 7200 router on both ends) |
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- making it unnecessary to link through an OC3 or T3 Telecom circuit
- downtime-causing circuit failure virtually eliminated |
| - DWDM technology: |
FGC's Dense Wave
Division Multiplexing technology |
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- can handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3. |
| - multiple
backbones: |
the server
shares the digital distribution architecture of FGC |
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- high-speed links through FGC to 8 public exchanges including
both MAE East and West and several NAPS
- 25 high-speed private peering connections to major Internet
carriers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, AT&T, AOL |
| - route optimization: |
BGP (Border
Gate Protocol) technology |
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- server automatically looks for the fastest route available,
depending on traffic loads and broken nodes |
