Vistapages connected at GigE to MCI/Verizon Backbone

Posted on June 11, 2008
Filed Under VistaPages Stuff |

Over the last few weeks, we have been making upgrades to our networking infrastructure in preperation for going from a copper connection to a fibre connection.

I doubt most of you have noticed, but we made the switch over from copper to fibre yesterday afternoon. The total switch over time was about 30 seconds. I’m happy to say the switch went without issue. 

Our network is  now connected directly by fibre optics to the #1 IP network in the world, powered by MCI/Verizon.

What does this mean?

  1. More pipe to handle spikes in traffic - Think of it as adding more lanes to a congested highway. Whenever there are traffic spikes, we will be able to keep things moving as there is more room for traffic to flow up and down. This is especially the case for digg’s, stumbleupons, slashdots and even DDOS attacks.
  2. Provides further scalability! - One phone call, and we have more bandwidth, without any physical changes to our network. Less downtime & maintenance is required.
  3. It’s Faster! - It’s faster. Plain and simple. 100Mbps vs 1000Mbps, you do the math :)

More goodies to come as we grow!

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