Does your current provider connect to the Internet using  just one or two
connections?

Here at Red Rocks Data Center, we now connect to 7 by recently contracting with Internap Network Services to become our primary provider of Internet services.

We chose Internap because they have created a platform to intelligently route data over the Internet’s major backbones from a single connection to one of Internap’s service points. They achieve this by connecting directly to each of the major backbones, thereby avoiding the congested traffic exchange process, while using their intelligent routing technology to find the most direct path across the public infrastructure.

So…what does this mean for you…?

It means your customers / employees are closer than ever before to your content. This is critical for applications such as e-commerce, online trading, video conferencing, online gaming, voice over IP (VOIP) applications and the emerging IPTV applications. This also means less downtime due to the fact that if one or two providers are in ?maintenance mode?, Internap detects this and seamlessly routes traffic through one of the other backbone providers.

With over 12Gbps (Gigabit Per Second) of newly added capacity to our facility, Red Rocks Data Center can meet any demand, small or large. This new connection ensures latency averages less than 50ms within the United States, less than 100ms from Europe and less than 150ms world wide.

The following diagram depicts the obvious advantage Internap provides to your customers:

Internal Networking

Powered by Cisco Networks, we designed our network to be fully redundant with plenty of room to grow. Using fiber optics as our primary Internet link and FCC wireless links capable of pushing over 1Gbps, we have taken the risk out of disasters such as fiber cuts that affect other data centers.

All of our Internet backbones are running BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), which routes all traffic coming in and out of the network on the shortest possible path. BGP also allows complete redundancy, if one or two Internet backbone links goes down, the other will still handle the traffic. The three separate Internet connections then connect to two redundant Cisco Enterprise Class routers, which use HSRP (Hot Spare Router Protocol) allowing one to take over for the the other during a failure. Unlike other data centers that charge extra for redundancy, all of this is included for all of our colocation customers.

At Red Rocks Data Center we have invested in one of the most important aspects of our data center and it shows everyday with the quickness and reliability of our network.