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| Industrial-Grade Equipment for
the Ultimate Performance and Reliability |
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EmeriWeb recognizes that downtime is
not an option for your website. That's why we invest
heavily in hardware and facilities to ensure that
you are up and running on the web 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
EmeriWeb's Network Operations Center (NOC)
features raised flooring. This enables a constant
flow of conditioned air and helps to maintain uniform
room temperature at all times. In addition, raised
flooring reduces static and ensures a professional,
computer-grade environment for your servers.
The facility is equipped with a Raytheon
fire suppression system, designed to immediately
extinguish fire and protect equipment and personnel.
The command center is controlled via automatic doors
to further secure and protect the equipment.
Finally, the NOC is located in a secure,
monitored, class A building with a minimum number
of approved personnel allowed access to highly sensitive
areas and equipment. A detailed record of employee
and visitor entry is maintained at all times.
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| Uninterruptible Power System |
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To guard against local
power failures, EmeriWeb has three industrial-grade,
three-phase UPS systems with back-up battery systems.
With these back-up systems in place, we can keep our
network up and running indefinitely without relying
on external power.
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| Force Filtered Cooling |
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All of EmeriWeb's custom
web servers are equipped with a positive-pressure
filtered-air system. Four large fans pull filtered
air into each server's protective case, and the components
within are cooled by fans that circulate this purified
air. This constant introduction of clean air into
the case creates a positive pressure environment ensuring
that dust and particles remain outside the server.
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| Standby Servers |
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We keep spare servers
online of all CPU configurations. If a server were
to experience a hardware failure, we would turn a
key, grab the handle on the drive, pull it out and
insert it into an identical standby CPU. We would
then reboot the second machine, and the server would
be up and running again in a matter of minutes.
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| Connected to Three Backbones
(Network Redundancy) |
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The EmeriWeb NOC, located
in Baltimore, Maryland, is On-Net with GlobalCrossing
(GC), AT&T, and Qwest Communications carriers
using three full OC3 connections. Three level 3 Optical
Carrier circuits directly connected to EmeriWeb's
routers and switching backbone, providing N+1 redundancy.
Each ISP has a Point-of-Presence (POP),
within our building, through three separate access
providers, MFS/MCI WorldComm, ALR, and QwestLink.
The OC3s extend out from three OC48s which are located
within our computer room.
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| Network Reliability |
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Industry analysis reveals
that 70% of downtime of over 10 hours with any ISP
is caused by telephone circuit failure. With EmeriWeb,
circuit failure is virtually eliminated. That's because
our NOC is in the same building as GlobalCenter, Qwest
and GTE. There is no phone circuit between EmeriWeb
and these providers. Instead, there is a direct connection
between our Cisco 7500 routers and theirs.
EmeriWeb's providers also have peering
connections with other major Tier 1 providers that
allow traffic to be switched to alternate backbones
should the need arise.
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