Network

Our server is located in the i-21 datacenter in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, very close to the DE-CIX which has actually become Europe's most important Internet Exchange Point. Our partner for housing and upstream is Link11.

The i-21 datacenter is carefully secured against sabotage, fire, power blackouts, etc. with several different installations like safety locks, smoke detectors, emergency diesel generators and an air-conditioning system.

The IP network routing is done via a redundant Juniper M320 Router. This router is connected to a redundant 6500 Series Cisco core switch via two fiber glass cables.

Our housing partners at Link11 provide their own full redundant IP backbone in Frankfurt am Main. This IPv6-ready backbone is connected to Europe's leading Internet Exchanges (IX) and several international carriers and is designed to run at a maximum speed of 10 GBits per second. It comes with several different high level peerings and upstream connections.

DE-CIX in Frankfurt am Main is the Internet Exchange that offers direct and settlement-free IP interconnection to the largest aggregation of networks in Central- and Eastern Europe. In addition there are direct connections to the Internet Exchange Points AMS-IX in Amsterdam and LINX in London which are important for IP traffic to Western Europe, Great Britain and the USA. That's why we have very low latency connections to most places in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Our uplink to the Link11 IP backbone is established via a separate 1 GBit per second connection and our network traffic is managed within our own VLAN. We have our own RIPE assigned IP-section.

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