Our equipment is
located just outside of St. Louis, MO. It is situated directly online
with AT&T,
UUNET/WorldCom,
& Genuity
Points-of-Presence (PoPs). The Network Operations Center (NOC) is connected
via three seperate and dedicated OC-3
fiber-optic lines. Each line is expandable to OC-48.
This means unparalleled redundancy and bandwidth allocation to insure
the light-speed browsing of your site(s) hosted at BMore Hosting.
AT&T
has the most widely-deployed, blazingly fast backbone in the country.
AT&T was the first in the industry to deploy a coast-to-coast OC-192
backbone. Just to give some perspective - this backbone:
- Transmits 675
trillion bytes (terabytes) of data and 300 million voice calls daily
- Carries more
data faster than any other carrier in the industry. An amount of data
that averages the equivalent of all the books in the Library of Congress
every 45 minutes
- Can transmit
25 feature-length movies across the country in less than two minutes
- Consists of over
45,000 miles of the latest-generation fiber-optic cable that links
30 majore metropolitan areas with full OC-192 bandwidth (10 gigabits
per second) - Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, St. Louis,
and San Francisco are just some of these areas
UUNET
/ WorldCom's
network spans more than 2,500 Points-of-Presence (PoPs) throughout North
America, and in Europe and the Pacific Rim, and incorporates more than
1.6 million modem ports. They provide high levels of reliability with
redundant and diverse paths to avoid single points of failure and provide
optimal routing and traffic flow, as well as uninterruptable power supplies
at every switching node. You can check on their current statistics here.
Genuity
brings an additional level of redundancy to round out our internet connectivity.
Through their extensive public & private peering portfolio, they
can provide network traffic routing in the event of catastrophic failure
of several backbone providers. The kind of catastrophic outage has never
occurred in the recent history of the internet, but it's always a good
idea to prepare for the worst, right? In the event of this type of outage,
your site will still be up and running!!
