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Steadfast, a Colohouse Company, has always prided itself in the quality of it's network. Network quality has always been a strong point, leading to a strong customer base of very demanding customers in voice/voice over IP (VoIP), online gaming, and high speed financial trading. With a network built for those customers, where a difference of a millisecond or two or a slight increase in jitter can cause major issues, you know you're going to get the highest level of network speed and quality from Colohouse.
What sets the Colohouse network apart?
- Intelligent Routing - BGP by itself is not enough, our network is actively looking to improve performance at the rate of 10,000 routes a minute to assure you're always using the best route possible.
- 99.99% Total Uptime SLA - We are so confident in the reliability of our network, we back it with a 99.99% total uptime SLA.
- Connectivity to Top Tier 1 Networks - We connect to only the highest quality Tier 1 network to assure the lowest number of networks traversed to reach your final destination. Currently, we connect to Level3/CenuryLink, NTT, Telia Carrier, and Cogent, the four largest global IP networks.
- Direct Peering Relationships - Not only do we connect directly to the top Tier 1 networks, we also have over 100 active peering sessions directly with networks such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, and more across three distinct peering points.
- Our Team - The network is backed by a highly skilled network operations team and continuous 24/7 monitoring of network health. Our team understands the importance of network quality and reliability and provides industry leading response and resolution times.
- Independent Internal Network - An internal network is available, protected from public Internet access, to be used to access servers, storage, backups, and other services inside the Steadfast network. This helps assure the highest levels of performance and security for traffic staying inside Colohouse data centers.
- Fully Redundant Network Configuraton - All core and distribution levels of the network (public, internal, and between the different Steadfast data centers) are built to 2N redundancy, always with ample capacity for failover.
- Only Carrier Grade Hardware - We use only carrier grade Juniper Network and Cisco hardware with support for 40 and 100 Gbit/sec connectivity.
- SOC 1/SSAE 18 audited - Type 2 SOC 1 audits address control and change management procedures that are audited by a third party.
- IPv6 Leader - We have been a true dual stack network with dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 since 2009 and provide the same level of quality and service over IPv6.
