 More connectivity options with T1, 10 Mb, 100 Mb, GigE, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192
Multiple upstream providers
NYI's fully-meshed
network is powered by Cisco
24/7 support, reboots, and monitoring
are available
NYI guarantees 100% uptime
NYI
utilizes UPS and generator power
No single point of failure |
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to a particular destination from NYI's network. Super Ping displays
up-to-the-minute information on round trip data packet travel
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How do you evaluate your choices to select the best design,
operations, and network infrastructure of the data centers
where your servers and Internet connectivity will be housed?
When choosing a provider, one step in the process is to
examine their Data Center network architecture to ensure
that the infrastructure provides reliable performance
at every level, including the local network infrastructure,
wide area connections, and at the server or application
level.
Having explored the potential problems that any network
must be designed to protect against, NYI has designed
a robust, elegant, and highly available solution to manage
your Internet servers. NYI's network design is structured,
sophisticated, and highly redundant. A well-structured
network is more manageable and more scalable. Sophisticated
use of technology balances performance with cost-effectiveness,
and redundancy contributes to high availability and fault
tolerance.
The three major elements of NYI's Data Center architecture
are:
Focus on Performance
The network's primary design criterion emphasizes fast
user access to Web content. A separate back-end network
allows highly secure file transfers and administration.
Duplicate and Segregate
From power supplies to network connections, duplicate
resources and segregate paths to avoid any single points
of failure.
Distribute Resources, Centralize
Control
Equipment is dispersed, but managed from a centralized
hub.
 Today,
we are all aware of the real network intrusion threats.
For NYI, protecting its systems against these has become
a vital objective. To accomplish this objective NYI uses
a lightweight network intrusion detection system (IDS),
capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet
logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis,
content searching/matching and can be used to detect a
variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows,
stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting
attempts, and much more. The IDS uses a flexible rules
language to describe traffic that it should collect or
pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular
plug-in architecture. The IDS is able to notify NYI's
ever-vigilant staff of anything suspicious, so that we
may take appropriate action, from keeping an eye on things,
to blocking malicious traffic or even contacting the responsible
party.
Another noteworthy point about NYI's network, and high-end
hosting product offering, is that each customer's Web
server is maintained on its own switched 100 Mbps Ethernet
segment. Each server is connected to its own Cisco Switch
port. The high bandwidth, 100 Mbps dedicated segment allows
large bandwidth burst unimpeded by competition from other
customers' servers or from any other server in your multi-server
Web site. "The price/performance trade-off of switched
Ethernet versus other alternatives cannot be ignored,"
explains Javier Frias, Network Administrator. "Fast
Ethernet provides the most cost-effective solution for
the customer."
With our Datacenter in the heart of Downtown Manhattan,
one block away from the New York Stock Exchange and other
major financial institutions; NYI is situated at the intersect
of two separate power grids to offer full redundancy and
added capacity. |
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 NYI provides multiple
private transit high-speed connections to multiple Internet
backbone providers, carried by different telecommunication
carriers for added redundancy. If the connection from
any single Internet provider should fail, NYI's dual router
configuration will route traffic through a different provider.
NYI has chosen a Private Transit Internet connectivity
strategy in addition to a public peering approach. NYI
believes that this strategy provides the very best Internet
connectivity for customers that depend on the Internet
as a strategic resource, as they both have their advantages
and disadvantages. . NYI's strategy ensures that NYI will
not be at the mercy of peers who withdraw free peering,
only to replace it with peering fees. NYI's private and
public transit Internet strategy is a forward-looking
strategy that provides the best possible Internet connectivity
today and ensures that NYI can provide uninterrupted services
and predictable pricing plans to our customers.
NYI
maintains upstream connectivity to top tier providers
such as BBN Planet/Genuity, UUNet, Sprint, Qwest, PSI,
Intermedia, and others. NYI's LAN is just as powerful
as its WAN. Utilizing Cisco's most powerful equipment
as well as some other major manufacturers, NYI has developed
an ultra fast and reliable network that thousands of clients
have come to depend on. NYI's network is scalable, fully
meshed, and secure. We can offer you the type of connectivity
for your data that compares to any leading ISP.
Many Internet Providers talk about high availability,
but what exactly is a "high availability" Web
site? When viewed from the customer's perspective, it's
quite simple: availability occurs when a customer enters
a URL for a specific site and the Web page at that address
is returned. In networking terminology, a resource is
available if it responds appropriately when its services
are requested.
But the Internet is a complex and constantly evolving
system of networks with millions of connections, components,
and customers constantly requesting Web pages. How can
you protect against changes that could make your Web site
unavailable? How does NYI get you closer to your goal?
NYI, like all hosting providers and ISPs, cannot guarantee
the performance of the entire Internet. But when your
Web server is hosted at NYI's Data Center, and your customer's
request is delivered to NYI's network, NYI can guarantee
near-perfect availability. And here is how.
NYI's Data Center brings fiber optic cable from multiple
carriers into the facility. Fiber is delivered from different
telecommunication Central Offices and enters the building
at different locations in physically separate paths that
never converge. Dual fiber entry provides redundancy at
the carrier level and also protection from instantaneous
loss of connectivity when heavy equipment cuts a fiber
line during construction or installation of cable or gas
lines. |
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