The Network Operations Center—located
in Baltimore, Maryland, is OnNet with GlobalCenter (GC),
Qwest Communications
and GTE through three separate bandwidth-on-demand connections
that enter Baltimore in our building. GC, a Tier 1 provider
with a 13,000-mile fiber optic network and Dense Wave
Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology provides an enormous 460
gigabytes per second (Gbps) of capacity worldwide,
has an Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) fiber node located just a few floors
below the NOC.
Qwest comes into Baltimore with
an OC-12 line and plans to upgrade its connection to an
OC-48 in
the near
future. Qwest
also has an ATM fiber node just floors below the NOC.
Our Qwest connection enables Webflogger.com to offer additional
redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America
and Asia. With our carriers, our router has up to 150,000 possible
routes to send each packet of traffic.
AT&T is our third Tier One
Internet backbone. AT&T
Managed Internet Service provides a reliable, dedicated,
high-speed Internet connection and industry-leading Service
Level Agreements (SLAs). Your business IP services will
reside on AT&T's world-class OC-192/OC-48 IP backbone,
providing you with managed, state-of-the-art hardware
and software,
smart routing capability, and continuous performance monitoring.
Our Servers
UPS
Stand-by Servers
Connection
Reliability