DATA CENTER OVERVIEW
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Overview
Located in downtown Tampa Florida, our building is considered one of the best carrier hotels in the south-east.
As a carrier hotel used by many well known regional, national and international bandwidth carriers, we are able to avoid local network loops and take direct tier one carrier routes to the Internet, ensuring that we can deliver your data at blistering speeds.
Featuring environmental control, 24/7 security, high capacity power supplies, in-house support and more, we provide the perfect home for your web site. |
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Power
The facility is powered directly by Tampa Electric Co. but in addition to grid power, surge provisions are also in place with MGE uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) and for total blackouts with a Generac Series 2000 backup generator which can independently maintain power for an extended outage. On the rack level, we utilise APC power distribution units to ensure power is distributed appropriately to all servers and networking equipment. |
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Monitoring & Support
In-house technicians are available 24/7/365 ensuring that the network operates optimally at all times, and any hardware repairs can be conducted at any time. Individual servers and services are monitored every minute of every day from three global locations, ensuring that we are apprised of any unusual activity at all times. |
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NETWORK OVERVIEW
The following information provides an overview of our carrier connections to the Internet. We use multiple carriers to ensure not only that the best path for your data is chosen, increasing the speed at which we can serve data, but also to eliminate a single point of failure in the unlikely event that a carrier were to go down temporarily.
Level 3 has built an advanced fiber-optic network utilizing Internet Protocol (IP) based technology. The Level 3 network combines both local and long distance networks connecting customers end-to-end. The company has 92 markets in service; 72 in the U.S. and 20 in Europe.
MCI owns, operates, monitors and maintains one of the largest communications networks in the world, carrying over 50% of all Iternet traffic. Their network facilities are throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, in more than 140 countries and over 2,800 cities.
MCI owns the world's farthest reaching global network and spans more than 4,500 Points of Presence (POPs) throughout the world. The global IP network can circle the globe more than four times. Additionally, MCI remains the most connected Internet backbone provider with the greatest number of Autonomous System network connections. The company's expansive IP footprint, coupled with its direct interconnections, exceeds all other competitor networks and enables its business customers and ISPs to reach more destinations directly through MCI's global IP backbone than any other carrier.
Progress Telecom is a leading Southeast U.S. carrier delivering wholesale broadband services from traditional private line capacity to advanced Ethernet and IP solutions. Progress’s fully owned OC-192 (10Gbps) IP network
spans the Southeast U.S. with services to Latin America. Progress’s backbone reaches 12 key cities, including Atlanta, Jacksonville, Daytona, Melbourne, Orlando, Tampa, and Miami; each having fiber metro rings. Their express rings
connecting the major international cable landings in South Florida and their presence in the NAP of the Americas enables Progress to provide services throughout the Eastern U.S. and to major Latin American cities.
