Unlike many other web hosting companies that have incurred huge expenses deploying and maintaining their own IP backbones, Haverford Consultants has contracted with a Datacenter that has taken advantage of the large number of providers with POP's already installed in the datacenter facility. We have leveraged these options to provide the best price and the network diversity required to support a 100% uptime guarantee.

By deploying this strategy and partnering with companies that have the capability of managing the complexities and expenses of a worldwide IP network, we have been able to eliminate the transport charges typical with dedicated IP Internet access. This has made our services offerings extremely affordable for the level of redundancy we provide.

Our strategy is simple but effective. Within the IDC we house a redundant Cisco 12008 GSR platform. That platform serves as the core gateway that routes your traffic to and from our upstream IP network providers. We currently have 4 GigE Layer 3 circuits installed into this core routing platform. We never preference one network over another but allow BGP to pick and choose on the fly the most efficient way to route your traffic at any given point in time. If there are ever any problems with any IP network provider we have sufficient capacity in place to turn down the GigE interface to that specific upstreams backbone. At that point BGP will reroute the traffic over the remaining 3 connections while our network engineers work with the upstream provider to pinpoint and correct the problem. Since we have such a large number of IP network providers to choose from within the facility we can change providers, usually within a week, if any single provider fails to meet the agreed upon performance objectives established between our companies when the circuit was initially turned and tested.

The Cisco 12008 routers interface to our Foundry Big Iron 4000 customer aggregating platform using redundant Cisco GigE switches.

Datacenter also has its own independent AS numbers and a Full class B IP assignment making our network connectivity as solid and as flexible as today's technology will allow. This provides large and small customers alike the best and most stable network connectivity the industry has to offer, often a fraction of the cost of doing business with the large collocation facilities.