(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and dedicated server provider Global Net Access (www.gnax.net) announced on Friday it has partnered with colocation provider Internap (www.internap.com) in which it will use Internap’s 10GB IP connection to increase performance and redundancy within its Gold Network.
GNAX will use an existing dark fiber route purchased from AGL Networks and will work with the engineering team to engineer a solution that takes a different path than GNAX’s current fiber to its providers.
“This path completely avoids Telx at 56 Marietta Street, which is the current termination point of the GNAX metro Ethernet networks,” says Jeff Hinkle, founder and president of GNAX. “The new fiber terminates at Internap’s 250 Williams Street facility and provides both increased redundancy and capacity. This is unique to most of the data centers in the region — especially in the city of Atlanta. Many have a ring or multiple paths – but like we were constructed in the past – they all come back to one single-point-of-failure facility.”
The new connection will enhance the performance of the GNAX Gold network. Internap uses performance-based routing which selects the best routes from their backbone providers which differ from the current providers on the GNAX Gold network.
GNAX will use its own route optimization to find the best path of its current as well as the best paths of the Internap optimized routes.
he project is estimated to be completed by October 1st.
