To ensure maximum stability and buffer-free streaming, we locate our stream servers in various locations around the USA at datacenters that have been fully tested and approved - we are constantly testing different networks around the world, and will only host customers on those that meet our standards. For you this means worry free streaming as all our datacenters employ engineers that are staffed on site 24 hours a day in case of an emergency
Our servers utilize premium bandwidth and we strive to achieve 99.9% uptime.
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Datacenters:
Dallas, TX
Our Dallas datacenter is located inside the recognized Infomart telecom hotel, a private, Tier III, N+1 facility near downtown Dallas. Infomart is also home to data centers belonging to MCI, Level 3, Equinix, Verio, Switch & Data, Verizon, and Via West. It sits on three redundant TXU electrical grids, delivering diverse power to each quadrant of the building, with five on-site 100-ton water chillers meeting N+1 cooling requirements.
Washington, DC
Our D.C. datacenter is located in a private N+1 data center facility just 7 miles from Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virginia. The facility is also home to data centers belonging to AT&T and Verizon Business, and receives power from two redundant Dominion Virginia Power grids. It includes three on-site, 600-ton cooling towers, fully meeting N+1 cooling requirements.
New Jersey
Our New Jersey datacenter boasts one of the best networks in the USA partly because they buy transit from and peer with many bandwidth carriers, including but not limited to Abovenet, Tiscali, XO, Global Crossing, Sprint, T-Systems.
Chicago
Our Chicago, IL datacenter utilizes routing and switching products from Cisco Systems, the leaders in the industry. Their network is fully meshed, using BGP, and redundant with a wide selection of backbone providers, including Level(3), Savvis, TeliaSonera, nLayer, and supplemented by local peering. 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 to the data center over redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet lines. 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 as well as the Chicago Internet Exchange.