Our Network & Data Center

We were very careful in choosing our business partners when it comes to server quality, network infrastructure and location. We have chose several companies around the U.S  to be our server and network provider.

Design

Our network in Chicago consists of two separate networks: a public Internet network and a private internal network. This “network within a network” design is comprised of two logically separate and redundant network architectures.

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The public Internet network connects client servers to the Internet at 10 / 100 / 1000Mbps port speeds. Each client is isolated to their own private VLAN to maximize security. This network is continuously monitored for performance and reliability. Bandwidth graphs, projections and custom alerts are available through Grove.

The private internal network is not reachable from the public Internet. It also separates client servers into their own private VLAN security purposes, and also allows us to provide many services not found at other providers. The private network allows your servers to securely communicate at speeds up to 1000Mbps without incurring any bandwidth charges. This eliminates additional switch charges, cross connect fees, and having to move servers from rack to rack as you add servers.

The private network also connects all servers to internal services offered by WiredTree: off-server backup, Network Attached Storage, update servers, local DNS sesolvers, service monitoring, IPMI metrics, and software/OS performance metrics all without using any of the public bandwidth allowance.

Location

Our servers network connection in downtown Chicago is the ideal location to provide low latency connectivity to all locations around the globe. Chicago is one of the most well connected cities in the world. It serves as one of North America's largest Internet hubs and is home to every major network provider. Most of the fiber optics that connect the East and West coasts of the United States run through Chicago and this yields low latency to both coasts as well as to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Network reliability is also greatly increased as the central hub location allows for many routes between our network and final destination points.

Bandwidth Providers

Savvis operates a global tier-1 network that spans 105 cities in 47 countries, encompassing the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, The Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Rim. Savvis network reliability was declared 'Perfect' in Network World magazine's groundbreaking study of ISP backbone performance achieving a 100-percent uptime rating and theoretical minimum rates for a beam of light traveling cross-country. Known as the 'The Network that Powers Wall Street' Savvis provides network services to over 4,500 financial institutions including 75 of the top 100 banks in the world and 45 of the top 50 brokerage firms in the United States. Savvis was recently ranked in the top 10 for Global IP Transit, North American Transit, and Asia-Pacific transit.

 

NTT Communications operates a high quality Tier 1 IP backbone with direct connection to major ISPs in Asia, the U.S., Europe and Oceania. The network currently boasts the industry's largest dedicated Internet bandwidth of 160Gbps between Japan and U.S and 53Gbps in Asia Pacific to provide end users with fast, smooth global Internet connections. The network currently operates with 4.3Tbps total backbone capacity, and 705Gbps peering capacity. NTT was recently rated in the Top 5 for Global IP Transit and Asia-Pacific Transit.

 

Cogent operates an end-to-end optical network which consists of multiple metropolitan IP-over-WDM fiber rings located in Cogent's major markets throughout the United States and Europe. Cogent currently has a presence in over 100 markets throughout North America and Europe. With a currently implemented capacity of 80-160 Gbit/s in the United States and 40-80 Gbit/s in Europe, Cogent's international IP network is the largest in the world and is scalable to a total capacity of over one Terabit.