The Network
What is it?
Divergent Networks leverages the unmatched power, scale, and architecture of the SoftLayer network. Which seamlessly integrates three distinct and redundant network architectures - Public, Private, and Data Center
to Data Center - into the industry's first Network-Within-a-Network topology for maximum accessibility, security, and control. This
revolutionary design gives system administrators unfettered access for total management over their server environments without
exposure to external threats. Our network is built from best-in-class networking infrastructure, hardware, and software with
exceptional bandwidth and connectivity for the highest speed and reliability.
Key Advantages
Secure, Out-of-Band Private Network Our proprietary network topology provides VPN server access via dedicated, non-public
carriers, keeping "backend" server access completely off limits to external traffic and allowing secure transfer of sensitive data.
The Private Network provides unlimited bandwidth, allowing data transfer and management with no impact to public bandwidth.
Best-in-Class Infrastructure We leverage industry-standard hardware and software solutions from the industry's top network and
security technology vendors to provide exceptional performance, reliability, protection, and scalability.
High-Speed, Redundant Connectivity Our network provides maximum performance throughout its entire architecture. Each server
rack features 40G of connectivity, for a level of redundancy and throughput ideal for intensive applications including grid, clustering,
and high performance computing. Dedicated 10G fiber connections between our geographically diverse data centers provides
high-speed throughput with low latency.
Hardware Firewalls Our hardware firewall solutions can be provisioned on demand without service interruptions for additional and
immediately scalable server security. Firewalls are fully managed through our convenient Customer Portal.
Load Balancing Our enterprise-class load balancing solution utilizes industry-standard techniques (including round-robin, lowest
latency, least connections, shortest response, and IP persistence) to balance traffic among two or more servers, even between geographically
diverse data centers. It can be instantly activated and ready to configure, and servers can be added to or removed from the balancing
pool on-demand with no downtime.
Three Fully Networked Data Centers Our data centers located in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington D.C., are built with SoftLayer's
unique pod data center design concept. Each is functionally independent with distinct and redundant resources, and fully integrated
through SoftLayer's revolutionary network architecture, allowing seamless intra-data center capabilities.
Network Structure
Our network within a network topology integrates three distinct architectures:
Public Network
Handles public traffic to hosted web sites or online resources. Features multi-homed connectivity to the Internet with
bandwidth from multiple, independent carriers.
Carriers
- Comcast (3 X 10Gbps)
- Equinix (peering) (2 x 10 Gbps)
- Global Crossing (1 x 10Gbps)
- Internap (5 x 10Gbps)
- Level3 (3 x 10Gbps)
Technology and Tools
- Multiple Internet backbone connections
- Cisco Systems 10G network
- Cisco Guard DDOS protection
Capabilities
- Automated IP routing and management
- Individual secure private VLAN per customer
- Gigabit speed from server to Internet
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- NTT America (3 x 10Gbps)
- Qwest (1 x 10Gbps)
- SAVVIS (1 x 10Gbps)
- SIX (peering) (1 x 10Gbps)
- TippingPoint IPS/IDS protection
- Arbor Peakflow traffic analysis
- Arbor ATLAS global traffic analyzer
- Allows on-the-fly addition of servers to existing VLANs
- Allows on-the-fly addition of services to existing servers
- Supports dedicated, VDS, and grid technologies
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Private Network
Allows for true out-of-band management through a distinct stand-alone third carrier over SSL, PPTP, or IPSEC
VPN gateways.
Carriers
- XO Communications (1Gbps)
Capabilities
- Secure out-of-band management via VPN
- Individual, secure private VLANs per customer
- Unlimited bandwidth for uploads/downloads
- Gigabit server-to-server speeds
- Free server-to-server cross connects
- Secure customer-to-customer cross connects
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- Cogent Communications (1Gbps)
- Direct access to tools and services including:
- Private OS update, reload, and change servers
- Geographically redundant DNS resolvers
- SoftLayer software repository
- Centralized NAS/backup
- McAfee security update server
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Data Center to Data Center Network
Provides free, secure
connectivity between servers housed in separate facilities.
Capabilities
- Dedicated 10Gbps fiber link with AboveNet
- Automatic fail-over through alternate secure connection
- Secure, high-speed data transmission between data centers
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