Physical Connect Locations for our Tier 1 Backbone Providers:

	DCA2 - Level 3: McLean, Virginia
	DCA2 - Q.West: NE Washington, DC
	DCA3 - Global Crossing: NW Washington, DC
	SEA2 - Level 3: Seattle, Washington
	SEA2 - Q.West: Tukwila, Washington
	SEA1 - Global Crossing: Seattle, Washington

Network Maps of our Tier 1 Backbone Providers:

	Level 3: Global Network / U.S. Network
	Global Crossing: Global Network / U.S. Network
	Q.West: Global Network / U.S. Network

Further Advantages of Our Network

The northern Virginia / DC area is an ideal location for a data centre. A very significant portion of the world's Internet traffic passes through here, and the area is not subject to earthquakes, tornadoes, floods or other natural disasters. With two data centres in Northern Virginia, and a West Coast data centre in Seattle, WA, we are able to provide the ultimate in multi-site, geographically-dispersed, mission-critical hosting services.

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 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,, at Any2 in both Los Angeles, CA and San Jose, CA, and at Packet Exchange in Ashburn, VA, Palo Alto, CA and Seattle, WA. 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.

Likewise in Seattle, we are located in a stable and level area (ground level of a well-built single story facility), providing the best resistance to earthquakes, and have multiple diverse-path fibre transport circuits with OnFiber, Q.West, ELI, Integra Telecom and Sabey. Seattle is one of America's best connected high-tech cities, and is an excellent base for high-performance, reliable Internet connectivity, and provides some of the most reliable power found anywhere.

We have built our facilities in the best possible areas for Internet connectivity and electrical utility reliability, and then further reinforced them with redundancy in all the possible forms. For example, we are able to offer multiple location hosting with the advantages, such as low latency and direct connectivity of the same IP network, yet the redundancy and security of three separate Data Centres in two different states, over 2500 miles physically apart (Virginia & Washington state). Under 2ms (0.002 second), 10 miles, apart DCA2 and DCA3 are available for ultra low-latency dual-location hosting needs, while DCA2 and/or DCA3 plus SEA2 add up to a 2500+ miles apart fully geographically redundant hosting, just some 70ms (0.07 second) apart, on the same reliable & secure coast-to-coast IP network.

To ensure the best routing of our customers' data, in addition to peering, we also 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. Furthermore, our core network routers always have not only dual power supplies, but, where available, power feeds to each power supply from a different power grid & UPS system, thus ensuring the ultimate in reliability.

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 - guaranteed by our industry-leading SLA.

Our Network & Backbone Connectivity in summary:

	eleven (11) sites with direct network presence in Virginia, New York, Illinois, California, and Washington state
	two Data Centres at the heart of the Internet - in Northern Virginia, one of the most naturally safe and best connected areas in North America
	a third Data Centre on the West Coast - in the high-tech hub area of Seattle, WA
	fully redundant AC & power at all sites
	physical fibre redundancy through multiple private OC-192 SONET rings with ten (10) separate financially strong and highly competent fibre carriers
	redundant network architecture using legacy-free, top-of-the-line Cisco equipment at Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet speeds
	redundant, geographically dispersed, direct connectivity to all of the world's major tier 1 backbones
	over 500 peering sessions - most traffic goes directly to the destination network, bypassing any intermediary transit carriers