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Providing Reliable Service.
If you are looking for not only network reliability, but a whole
company you can depend on, Steadfast Networks does it all.

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Our Network

Our high-performance, fully redundant network.

GigE Lines on Juniper Our network utilizes routing and switching products from Brocade, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks, the leaders in the industry. We utilize redundant Brocade MLXe routers as our core routers/switches, Cisco 6500 and Juniper EX8200 (depending on location) switches in our distribution layer, and Cisco 2960 and Juniper EX2200 switches in our aggregation/customer layer. Additional network equipment includes an InterNAP FCP to optimize overall network routing and performance, assuring the lowest latency and jitter to sustain high frequency trading, voice services, and game server providers. In addition, redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet circuits are used across the entire core of the network to reduce the risks of internal congestion due to DDoS attacks and to maintain optimal flexibility.

Our network is fully meshed, using BGP, and redundant with a wide selection of backbone providers, including Level(3), NTT, Tinet, and nLayer, and supplemented by our peering network which consists of over 100 direct peering relationships including Amazon, Facebook, Cox Communications, Cablevision, Hurricane Electric, and many, many more. We took care in choosing our carriers; our research showed them to be some of the fastest and most reliable networks available. Not only are the providers redundant, but their entry paths are redundant as well. Some carriers are brought into the network at Equinix and carried down three floors to our data center over redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines while several pairs of fiber also connect us to providers in the building Meet-Me Room (MMR). In the building there is also fiber from dozens of other companies such as Global Crossing, Abovenet, Qwest, and Sprint and easy access to the Equinix peering fabric.

We have been a leader in IPv6 connectivity with full support for IPv6 since early 2009, so all of our customers can now take advantage of the new features and advantages of IPv6. Our IPv6 network uses the same fully redundant core infrastructure as our IPv4 network. The IPv6 network includes full transit service from Level3, nLayer, NTT, Tinet, and Hurricane Electric, along with dozens of direct peers.

Internal Network

Chicago Backbone Carriers

New York Backbone Carriers

Network Peering

Level(3)

Level(3) is one of the world's largest and most reliable carriers. Nine out of ten of the world's largest telecom carriers all continue to use Level(3) services, as do five of the top six U.S. Internet Service Providers, and nine out of ten of the largest European telecom carriers. The company operates a 22,500 mile broadband fiber optic network in 72 US markets and 20 European markets.

NTT

NTT Communications is the international and long distance service arm of NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation), one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. NTT's extensive global infrastructure covers over 150 countries and a Tier 1 IP backbone connected with major ISPs worldwide, as well as secure data centres in Asia, North America and Europe. In 2009, NTT Corp. was ranked 44th in Fortune's Global 500 list with operating revenues of more than $103 billion.

Inteliquent (formerly Tinet)

Inteliquent is the combination of Tinet's extensive network includes over 100 IP/MPLS PoPs covering the most Europe, the USA, Canada and APAC and Neutral Tandem's extensive 179 market IP backbone. Based on the amount of Internet traffic on Inteliquent's IP backbone, it is among the largest Internet carriers worldwide: the company operates one of the top 5 IP network backbones and one of the largest IPv6 networks worldwide. In October 2010, Tinet was acquired by Neutral Tandem, a leading provider of tandem interconnection services to wireless, wireline, cable and broadband telephony companies based in Chicago, together forming Inteliquent.

Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a global telecommunications based out of Mumbai, India that owns it's own extensive international and submarine cable network. Their extensive assets through the world, including most of Asia and Africa, with a stronghold in many emerging markets. The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries and territories across 400 PoPs.

nLayer

nLayer Communications has designed and deployed a robust, legacy-free, and highly scalable network spanning key markets across North America. Major backbone nodes are connected via multiple OC-192 (10 Gbps) diversely routed circuits, provisioned over a highly scalable Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) infrastructure.