InterCom Design, The E-Commerce & Website Design Specialists - E-Marketing and Internet Selling - Local to Avery, Mitchell, Yancey and McDowell counties in Western NC

Our server 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 Cisco 7200 router and theirs. Please understand we do not host websites from our physical location in Bakersville, NC. That would be pretty stupid since the phone lines in this area are akin to using 2 cups and a piece of string. 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 do not 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 require a stop over.

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.

Industrial-Grade Equipment for the Ultimate in Performance and Reliability

Uninterruptible Power System
Industrial Air Conditioners
Custom Web Servers
Force Filtered Cooling
Hot Swap Seagate Drives
Redundant Power Supplies
Standby Servers
Multiple Backbones

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. Since the average internet connection will make 14 to 16 hops before connecting you to the website you clicked to, this can cause delay times of as much as 3 to 4 seconds. Also, some browsers will not access the site at all if any hop takes more than 300ms. Our 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.


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