Infrastructure
The data centers themselves are located in carrier-neutral facilities operated by Equinix, Digital Realty Trust, and Switch and Data. Each provider manages its own standby generators, which are tested regularly and in accordance with established disaster recovery plans. Additional power redundancy and diversity is provided by multiple power distribution units (PDUs) in each datacenter facility.
Diverse upstream bandwidth is provided by Qwest, AboveNet, and Global Crossing, for multi-gigabit aggregate capacity. Additional bandwidth is easily provisioned as demand grows. Traffic is routed via BGP4. Customers can cost-effectively scale to multi-site redundancy without having to pay for data synchronization traffic. An additional benefit of our Metro Area Network is that local backups can be immediately copied to a mirrored off-site location.
