What is the total capacity of your network?
500 MG.
What is your average in-use bandwidth compared to your total
capacity?
Presently, external output is peaking at 120 MG, which means that bandwidth utilization
is 24% during peak traffic times.
Are you using BGP 4 and ASN?
Yes we run both. We run Border Gate Protocol (BGP4). BGP is used at a provider
with more than one access point to the Internet. It helps create a truly redundant
network.
In fact, in an ideal situation, a lease line failure should result in the BGP
routing session to close on the bad leased line and the router on a working circuit should
then begin to accept the additional traffic.
In other words, traffic from a down circuit is re-distributed across other circuits,
thereby maintaining network integrity. Providers that are multi-homed and correctly setup
can actually be more reliable than a single backbone provider because they have multiple
paths to multiple.
Is each of your servers on its own node on the Network?
Yes. Also Since each servers is its own node on the network, it is difficult for
hackers to trace data packets with sensitive information (i.e. passwords) to a particular
server.
Each server has a dedicated 100 mbps connection to the backbone.
Are you using Ethernet Hubs or Ethernet Switches?
Switches. A provider's local area network is not often enough being seen as a
point of latency.
The two main sources of latency for a full-time Internet connection are
the user's local area network and the Internet provider's local area network. Our network
is anchored by Cisco 5500 Series ether switches and high-end Cisco routers (like our Cisco
7513).
This top-of-the-line network hardware ensures that data requests get to their
destination and back out of the network as fast as possible.
We use ether switches instead
of hubs because of their speed and their security capabilities. Whereas only one computer
plugged into a hub can talk at one time, all the machines connected to a switch can talk
at the same time.
This means more data can travel through a switch and each server acts as
its own node on the network. Furthermore, since each servers is its own node on the
network, it is difficult for hackers to trace data packets with sensitive information
(i.e. passwords) to a particular server.
Servers on our network do not share a single path (T3). Instead, the servers are
connected into a high-speed Ethernet switch. This switch is connected to the core router
at our facility.
From the core router, data is sent back to the end user across the
fastest available path. Whereas statically routing traffic over one path creates a single
point of failure, this distributed architecture ensures that users can access data
extremely quickly and have multiple paths both into and out of our network.
Is each server guaranteed a specific amount of bandwidth?
Yes. Each server is guaranteed a minimum amount of 1,000 GB or
whatever amount is contracted over the 1,000 GB.
Each server has its own 100 mbps connection to our backbone.
Tell me about your network monitoring
In addition to its multi-homed connections and high-speed backbone, Dynamic Net also
has 24/7 network monitoring.
Check out http://www.wemanageservers.com/monitoring/monitoring.html
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