Further Advantages of Our Network

The northern Virginia area is an ideal location for a Data Centre. A very large portion of the world's Internet traffic passes through here, and the area is not subject to earthquakes, tornadoes, floods or other natural disasters.

We are located at the true heart of the Internet, and in a very safe and secure area. This central location ensures optimal connectivity, speed, and routing, minimizing the number of hops - and thus the chance of any problems. We are located right beside a great number of private and public peering points, in one of the most densely and best connected areas in the world, including directly peering at the Equinix Exchanges (IBX'es) in Ashburn, Virginia and Chicago, Illinois, at the NYIIX in NYC, New York, at PAIX in Palo Alto, CA and Seattle, WA, at the SIX in Seattle, WA, and at Any2 in both Los Angeles, CA and San Jose, CA. All providers have multiple, redundant routes into the DC/VA area. This is further built upon by our redundant connectivity to multiple Tier 1 providers via separate circuits, terminating at diverse locations in Virginia and the District of Columbia. We are redundantly set-up Internet connectivity wise (multiple backbone connectivity providers), as well as physically. In terms of fibre optics, we have multiple private OC-192 SONET rings with multiple financially-healthy fibre providers, taking different physical paths.

We have built our facilities in the best possible area for Internet connectivity, and then further reinforced it with redundancy in all possible forms. We operate three high-capacity UPS systems: one APC system and two Liebert systems, the three UPS systems together being able to power all the DCA2 servers for over 30 minutes in case of a power outage. In case of a more extensive outage, the two (three engines total) diesel power generators - that can run indefinitely, if need be - would kick into effect. Multiple 15 through 30 ton Liebert AC units - over 300 tons all together - are in use, too, maintaining a consistent temperature of 18C and a dust-free environment at our Data Centre.

One of the most unique features of our DCA2 DC is its US military / NSA (National Security Agency) standard compliant "tempest room." Any customer servers located in this room (upon request) will be fully secure from eletrical or magnetic interference, as well as safe upon a physical attack on the facilities. The "tempest room" is similar to a bank vault, except that it has been built and designed to be used for physically secure server hosting specifically.

To ensure the best routing of our customers' data, we pay for commercial top-priority transit network capacity to our tier 1 backbone providers and have full burst capacity available at all times on all circuits. Thus we receive the highest level of service, including 99.99% or 100% uptime and no packet-loss guarantees, from all our connectivity providers. 90%+ of traffic from us to end users only passes over one or two backbones on its way to reaching the end destination. In addition, we are committed to under 50% network capacity utilization at all times; we ensure that our network always has double the capacity it needs, even at peak hours.

Our network design and operations ensure the very best connectivity, speed, and reliability possible: 100% network uptime, no packet loss, and under 3 ms low latency connection to Tier 1 backbones -