Core Network & Backbone Connectivity
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Logical
Network Architecture 
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| Traffic from each one of our sites considers all the outgoing routes - including routes through all the other sites - weighted for physical distance, reliability, performance and latency, and picks the most direct, lowest latency route available to the destination. That is, all the packets take the most direct, fastest, way out and have a full BGP selection of all the transit providers and peers at all the sites, not just the transit/peering lines present at that particular site. The network is fully inter-connected and meshed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peering:
In addition to buying commercial transit from the world's major tier 1 backbones, we also have an extensive peering network established. Peering is the process whereby one network provider, such as us, connects to another one directly -- bypassing the "middlemen" (intermediary networks). Peering provides a more direct, faster, and shorter route than transit by bypassing other third-party networks, resulting in considerable performance & reliability gains. However, very few networks engage in peering, as typically a coast-to-coast IP backbone is required for a network to qualify for peering (so only very large national or International Internet networks even qualify to peer), and it is considerably more costly and time-consuming to maintain many 100s, if not 1000s, of peering connections, vs. just a few transit links. We, however, always go for the best and invest the time and the resources necessary in order to ensure that our customers enjoy performance that is truly "Ahead of the Rest."® More than 50% of our network traffic exits directly to our peers, bypassing the intermediary transit networks - thus resulting in superior performance, redundancy and reliability. Your packets reach the destination faster: with less hops and lower latency. We
have a large number of peer sessions (over 500), composed of major national
& international backbones, ISPs and content providers, at the Equinix
Exchanges (IBX'es) in Ashburn, VA and Chicago, IL, at NYIIX in New York,
NY, at PAIX/Equinix 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 PacketExchange in Ashburn, VA, Chicago, IL, Palo Alto, CA and Seattle, WA,
in addition to a number of private peering inter-connects. A
partial list of our peers follows, below. Note that new peers are added
on a regular basis, so, the list below may not be complete and up-to-date.
For redundancy and optimal performance, we peer with most peers at multiple
locations.
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Peer List (last updated October 19, 2016): |
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