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The
Masterpiece
Hosting Network Operations
Center (NOC) located in Baltimore, Maryland, is OnNet with Frontier
GlobalCenter (FGC) and Qwest
Communications through
two separate bandwidth-on-demand connections which enter Downtown
Baltimore just a few floors below the NOC. FGC, a Tier 1 provider
whose 13,000-mile fiber optic network and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
(DWDM) technology provide an enormous 460 gigabytes per second (Gbps)
of capacity worldwide, has an ATM fiber node located just a few
floors below. Qwest
comes into Baltimore with an OC-12 line, and plans to upgrade their
connection to an OC-48 in the near future. They also have an ATM
fiber node 14 floors below the NOC. Qwest
comes into Baltimore
at the same location with an OC-12 line and plans to upgrade to
an OC-48. Our Qwest
connection enables Masterpiece
Hosting to offer
additional redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America,
and Asia. With these two carriers, our router will have up to 150,000
possible routes to send each packet of traffic. Furthermore, because
of these unique connections,
Masterpiece Hosting
no longer needs to link to the Internet though an OC3 or T3 Telecom
circuit. Instead, independent cables run inside our building directly
from the NOC to both the Global Center point of presence and the
Qwest
point of presence. These lines can handle the bandwidth of a T3
or an OC3, and with DWDM they can handle several times the bandwidth
of an OC3. So, whatever the client's bandwidth needs are, Masterpiece
Hosting has the ability
to meet them! In early September 1999, we added connectivity from
Level 3 Communications. Level 3 was described in USA
Today as "a
dream team with a dream network." With the fundamental change
in communication technology at hand, they are the first to build
an international end to end communications network, based entirely
on IP technology. To implement this new technology, Level 3 plans
to construct local networks in 50 cities across the United States,
all interconnected by an intercity or long distance network that
will extend nearly 16,000 miles.
See
also:  Network
Redundancy
Reliability
Performance
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