BETTER CONNECTIVITY
Great support and great features will get you nowhere without
a wide pipe. We used to advertise an OC3; now we've gone one
better.
WBCS.net's Network Operations Center in Baltimore, Maryland is
"OnNet" with Frontier Global Center (FGC), which
means that we have a direct fiber optic connection between
our router and theirs. Being OnNet with a Tier-1
provider means that we don't link to a backbone, we are actually
on a backbone. We have no phone circuit, and don't use a Telecom
link to get to the Internet; instead, we have an in-house
connection directly to FGC's ATM fiber node, located a few
floors below our servers in the same building. This fiber
optic line can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3, and
with FGC's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology,
it can handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3.
MULTIPLE BACKBONES
We share the digital distribution architecture of FGC, which
is comprised of more than 25 high-speed private peering connections
to major Internet carriers such as MCI, Sprint, UUNET, AT&T,
AOL, Best, Erols, and others. FGC also has high-speed links
to 8 public exchanges including both MAE East and West and
several NAPS. To use an analogy, the private peering connections
allow data to travel from New York to LA on a non-stop flight,
while the public exchanges enable data to fly into the Roseburg,
Oregon airport.
"Sometimes
the Net is slow.... "
What happens when your pipe is
hooked up to a faucet that just trickles? Sometimes even though
your ISP and your web host are both functioning properly,
you may still have a slow data transfer rate. The Internet
sends information all over the country and the world, through
a dozen or more computers on its way to you -- and something's
always getting serviced somewhere in that long chain. Here's what we've done to speed things up:
Route Optimization We
have a large investment in BGP (Border Gate Protocol) technology,
which allows the traffic to your site to travel more efficiently
by finding the best route for data to travel. On a typical
server the traffic always takes the same route from client
to server. For them, if there is a bad node, traffic does
not get through at all. Because we use BGP protocol, different
and more efficient routes are taken between client and server
depending on traffic loads and broken nodes. This means our
servers automatically look for the fastest route available.
Low Latency/High
Throughput
Often providers operate their networks at three to four times
responsible capacity, and as a result the corresponding transfer
times reach over 300ms for each hop along the net. One World's
network daily average is 6.5% of its capacity, with mid-day
peak spikes reaching only 15.5% capacity. Our transfer times
range from 15 to 80ms routinely.
WBCS.net's Network Operations Center in Baltimore, Maryland is
"OnNet" with Frontier Global Center (FGC), which
means that we have a direct fiber optic connection between
our router and theirs. Being OnNet with a Tier-1
provider means that we don't link to a backbone, we are actually
on a backbone. We have no phone circuit, and don't use a Telecom
link to get to the Internet; instead, we have an in-house
connection directly to FGC's ATM fiber node, located a few
floors below our servers in the same building. This fiber
optic line can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3, and
with FGC's Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology,
it can handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3.
We
have a large investment in BGP (Border Gate Protocol) technology,
which allows the traffic to your site to travel more efficiently
by finding the best route for data to travel. On a typical
server the traffic always takes the same route from client
to server. For them, if there is a bad node, traffic does
not get through at all. Because we use BGP protocol, different
and more efficient routes are taken between client and server
depending on traffic loads and broken nodes. This means our
servers automatically look for the fastest route available.