Super-Strong and Ultra-Reliable
network because ...
2 x L2TP 155mb Pipe
- 2U is one of only 4 ISP's in the UK with this Layer 2 Transfer
Protocol. Other ISP's have to rent sections of someone else's L2TP
pipe, which means slower connection for those customers.
NetServices dark-fibre
Internet network is fully resilient with redundancy built in
BGP4 routed network
- For added resilience and network performance.
Multiple IP carriers
over triple resilient network. - i.e. we have more than one
route onto the internet = faster + more reliable.
Handsfree managed
network - Netservices manage and maintain the ADSL broadband
network for you, in their Data-centres on a 24X7 basis, covering
all their network components.
Who are Netservices
and why did we choose to partner with them?
Netservices were founded in 1996. Through profit generating they
have grown organically over the past seven years into a fully fledged
ISP. They now have approximately 45 staff and are still a privately
owned ISP with no 3rd party funding dictating how they spend their
profits. They make their own decisions.
Their organic growth
gained them a position in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 list in
2002 for the UK's fastest growing Technology companies. Netservices
have always been the people behind the people providing a variety
of services to ISP's, Virtual ISP, Telco's and blue chips covering
network engineering, connectivity and hosting solutions to software
development.
In the year 2000 Netservices
acquired the Carrier 1 'Point Of Presence' in Manchester.
This POP is a carrier grade purpose built facility and this has
now added to their two other purpose built data centres. They also
have two L2TP 155mb central pipes from BT. One of which terminates
in Manchester and the other in Telehouse London. Their network is
connected together by their own dark fibre and they run
the protocol BGP4 which gives Netservices a non-contended
network (which means each customer's line has fewer other customers
fighting for bandwidth).
NetServices is best
described as a 'Technology House'. They have considerable communications
infrastructure assets including: a 20,000sq ft data centre, the
largest privately owned data centre in the country, and an L2TP
ADSL network.
NetServices are able
to offer innovative technology across their ADSL Network because
they are one of only 4 UK providers that have an L2TP (Layer
2 Tunneling Protocol) network rather than being dependent on
Layer 3 (the IP layer), this offers far greater management and security
options.
What does this mean
to the end user?
When the end user connects to the BT exchange, rather than BT authenticating
that connection and managing the radius, the connection is passed
directly to Net services, un-molested and Netservices do their own
terminating of the connection. The advantage to the end user is
that because they do all their own termination (using the layer
3), when BT's network fails, 2U & Netservices' network continues.
Netservices' network
is comparatively tiny compared to BT's thus simple maths suggests
that the number of points of failure within BT's network is far
higher than Netservices'. The customer will in turn have a far better
uptime and experience a far more reliable connection to the internet
with 2U ADSL.
Once the end user connects
to the ISP, they are then given upstream bandwidth which allows
them to 'surf' the web. It is (normally) up to the individual ISP
to supply that upstream bandwidth. The amount and quality of the
bandwidth normally has a detrimental effect on the end users surfing
experience i.e. a small amount of bandwidth from a single upstream
supplier can often mean a slow and unreliable connection, often
with periods of downtime.
Netservices have invested
heavily to ensure that all end users who use the network experience
the fastest and most reliable connection possible. Netservices have
taken bandwidth from 3 Tier One Upstream providers. From
each provider they have taken 100% capacity. The advantage
to the end user is that, in the unlikely event that two of the providers
fail (their connection goes down), the end users will not experience
any difference in their surfing experience. The third provider
still has 100% capacity to carry all end users.
Within the Network, they
run BGP4 Protocol. This is a protocol which sits on the router.
It has a routing table and as each connection goes out to the internet
the routing table reads the destination address and obtains the
quickest route to that destination. So, if two of the upstream
providers have gone down, the BGP4 protocol will send the data over
the third upstream provider.
Summary
Once you understand the technical reasons behind the ultra-reliability
of 2U ADSL you start why you deserve the best, most reliable ADSL
Broadband in Britain.
