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Host Affection™'s parent company, Steadfast Networks, owns and operates it's own network based in Chicago, IL. Our network utilizes the routing and switching products from Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, and Foundry Networks. We utilize Juniper M20 and M5 routers as border routers, Foundry FastIron series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 3550 switches in our aggregation/customer layer. Our network is fully meshed, using BGP, and redundant with two backbone providers. Our current network consists of Level(3) (GigE), Savvis (GigE), and BtNAccess (GigE). We took care in choosing those three carriers since throughout our research they appeared to be the fastest and some of the most reliable networks around. In the building there is also fiber from dozens of other companies such as MCI, AT&T, Global Crossing, Abovenet, Qwest, XO Communication, Sprint, and Williams.
Internal Network
- Carrier class Juniper routers
- Fully redundant Foundry FastIron distribution switches
- Cisco 3550 series aggregation/customer layer switches
- 100% fiber internal backbone
- 100% network uptime SLA
Backbone Carriers
- Level(3) - Direct GigE (1000mbit/sec)
- Savvis - Direct GigE (1000mbit/sec)
- BtNAccess - Direct GigE (1000mbit/sec)
Level(3)
Level(3) is one of the world's largest and most reliable carriers. Nine out of ten of the world’s largest telecom carriers all continue to use
Level(3) services, as do five of the top six U.S. Internet Service Providers, and nine out of ten of the largest European telecom carriers. The company operates a 22,500 mile broadband fiber optic network in 72 US markets and 20 European markets.
Savvis
The Savvis IP network spans 110 cities in 45 countries, encompassing the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, The Middle East, Asia and The Pacific Rim. Known as The Network that Powers Wall Street, more than 4,700 financial institutions, including 75 of the top 100 worldwide banks and 45 of the Top 50 brokerage firms, connect to SAVVIS to conduct secure high-speed transmission of financial and economic data. From this heritage of providing real-time applications management for the world's most demanding customers, Savvis now has over 70% of its customer base comprised of non-financial enterprises and 50% of the Fortune 500. Savvis' network reliability was declared “perfect” in Network World magazine’s groundbreaking study of backbone performance. Savvis has recently purchased the US assets of Cable & Wireless making them one of the largest US carriers and is continuing it's record of fast and extremely reliable service.
BtNAccess
BtNAccess is a leading legacy-free Internet backbone provider, offering IP-based end-to-end communications solutions over its own global native Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)-enabled network. With offices and direct network access points located in Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East, BtNAccess delivers a comprehensive suite of wholesale and enterprise IP-Based services.
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