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Technical Information
Our Internet connection
is a bandwidth-on-demand connection with FGC, a Tier 1
provider servicing companies like Yahoo and Netscape.
The Operations Center has a direct fiber optic connection with FGC. This means that
we don't link to a backbone, we are actually on a backbone. We don't have any phone
circuits, and we don't use a Telecom link to get to the Internet. We have an in-house
connection directly to FGC's ATM fiber node, located a few floors below our servers in the
same building. This fiber optic line can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3, and with
FGC's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, it can handle several times the
bandwidth of an OC3.
Multiple Backbones
We share the digital distribution architecture of FGC, which is comprised of more than 25
high-speed private peering connections to major Internet carriers such as MCI, Sprint,
UUNET, AT&T, AOL, Best, Erols, and others. FGC also has high-speed links to 8 public
exchanges including both MAE East and West and several NAPS. To use an analogy, the
private peering connections allow data to travel from New York to L.A. on a non-stop
flight, while the public exchanges enable data to fly into the Roseburg, Oregon airport.
Route Optimization
We use BGP (Border Gate Protocol) technology which allows the traffic to your site to
travel more efficiently by finding the best route for data to travel. On a typical server
the traffic always takes the same route from client to server. For them, if there is a bad
node, traffic does not get through at all. Because we use BGP protocol, different and more
efficient routes are taken between client and server depending on traffic loads and broken
nodes. This means our servers automatically look for the fastest route available.
Low Latency/High Throughput
Our network daily average is 6.5% of its capacity, with mid-day peak spikes reaching only
15.5% capacity. Our transfer times range from 15 to 80ms routinely.
Hardware and System Specifications
Type:
Pentium III
Ethernet Connection
100 Base T
Web Server Type
Apache Version 1.3
Operating System
Linux Redhat Version 6.0 |
