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Bjork-Huffman has
spared no expense deploying the hardware and network
infrastructure required to support the mission critical
applications of our data center customers. The core
network is supported and managed using redundant Cisco
12008 GSR's as our gateway routing platform. Additionally,
each customer is connected to the network with their own
dedicated 100BaseT or GigE port on our Foundry Big Iron
4000 customer aggregate platform. This simple but very
effective network strategy employ's OSPF for internal
routing within the Bjork-Huffman, IDC and industry
standard BGP routing protocol used to determine the most
efficient way to send and receive your traffic from our
upstream providers. Unlike many other facilities Bjork-Huffman
does NOT preference one upstream over another. Our
policy is to allow BGP to operate as it was designed and
intended to operate. We never choose one upstream over
another based on economics or any other issue except the
performance of that GigE link at any specific point in
time. We have our own independent AS numbers and a Full
class B IP assignment making our network connectivity as
solid and as flexible as today's technology will allow.
This provides large and small customers alike the best and
most stable network connectivity the industry has to
offer, often a fraction of the cost of doing business with
the large collocation facilities.
The benefits of locating your equipment
platform at the Bjork-Huffman IDC are many. Our size, our
dedication to each customer and the substantial
infrastructure benefits the building at 56 Marietta Street
in downtown Atlanta provides is strategic advantage as you
sort out whom you should collocate your equipment platform
with. The assortment of IP backbone providers within the
building allows us to eliminate traditional transport
charges, receive the connectivity at Layer 3 GigE Ethernet
and negotiate and pass on significant savings to our
customer base. This allows Bjork-Huffman focuses on
managing the IDC and the customers within that facility.
We do not manage the Internet backbone, but only our GigE
connectivity into it. If a backbone vendor is not
providing the level of IP connectivity that meets our high
standards we have the flexibility to eliminate that vendor
from our connectivity mix and add new vendors as required.
Furthermore, Bjork-Huffman ALWAYS maintains enough
transit connectivity terminating in our core routing
platform to insure we can completely shut down 2 IP
backbone providers and still run the facility
uninterrupted.
Our current configuration of IP network consists of 3
Layer 3 GigE circuits with a 4th in testing. You can see
additional information on each of Bjork-Hufman' upstreams
below:
- Circuit 1: GigE
Layer 3 Ethernet Circuit terminating directly into
Aleron’s Tier 1 IP Backbone.
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- Circuit 2: GigE
Layer 3 Ethernet Circuit terminating directly into
Marietta FiberNet's Dual Sonnet Ring infrastructure.
This ring provides transport to the Pnap and access to
peering points with At&T, Cable and Wireless,
InterNap and UUnet.
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- Circuit 3: GigE
Layer 3 Ethernet Circuit terminating directly into
WebUsenets OC192, which is physically collocated
within the Bjork-Huffman IDC. WebUsenet is one of
the largest providers of Usenet services supporting
AOL, BellSouth EarthLink and many other major last
half mile providers. Their private network, supported
by Level 3's advanced 3 Packet technology provides
peering in Dallas, San Jose, Chicago, New York and of
course Atlanta, their hub city.
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- Circuit 4: PENDING Testing
Proposed turn-up date April 1, 2003
GigE Layer 3 Ethernet Circuit terminating directly
into BTN's Tier 1 IP Backbone
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