BETTER-THAN-OC3 CONNECTIVITY
Great support and great features will get you nowhere without a wide pipe. We used to
advertise an OC3; now we've gone one better.
Our Network Operations Center in Baltimore, Maryland is "OnNet" with Frontier Global Center
(FGC), which means that we have a direct fiber optic connection between our Cisco 7200
router and theirs. Being OnNet with a Tier-1 provider means that we don't link to a
backbone, we are actually on a backbone. We have no phone circuit, and don't use a Telecom
link to get to the Internet; instead, 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 LA on a non-stop flight,
while the public exchanges enable data to fly into the Roseburg, Oregon airport.
ADDITIONAL CONNECTIVITY WITH QWEST
We have recently added additional connectivity with Qwest for
an OnNet high speed connection to their backbone; very similar to the one we have with
Frontier Global Center. Qwest comes into Baltimore with an OC-12, and plans to upgrade
their connection to an OC-48 in the near future. The addition of Qwest will dramatically
help with connectivity, redundancy and enhance routes to Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
Our Cisco 7200 router will manage the FGC and Qwest connections using Border Gate
Protocol. With these two carriers, the router will have up to 150,000 possible routes to
send each packet of traffic. Qwest has network maps available at http://www.qwest.com/network/netmaps.html
Sometimes the Net is slow...
What happens when your pipe is hooked up to a faucet that just trickles? Sometimes even
though your ISP and your web host are both functioning properly, you may still have a slow
data transfer rate. The Internet sends information all over the country and the world,
through a dozen or more computers on its way to you -- and something's always getting
serviced somewhere in that long chain.
Here's what we've done to speed things up:
Route Optimization
We have a large investment in 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
Often providers operate their networks at three to four times responsible capacity, and as
a result the corresponding transfer times reach over 300ms for each hop along the net.
Jumpline's 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.
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