The Planet's (www.theplanet.com) data centers are among the best-connected hosting facilities in the world. The data centers are implemented through a high-speed network specifically designed for dedicated server hosting. The Planet has invested in both network equipment and backbone connections to ensure that customers get the fastest access possible to their content and applications.
The Planet's data centers have multiple network connections to different Internet backbones, allowing data to be distributed though many sources - meaning that The Planet's network is not dependent upon any single Internet backbone.
The Planet network architecture utilizes the Enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper and Cisco. We utilize Juniper M20 routers as border routers, Cisco 6500 series switches in our distribution layer and Cisco 6500 switches in our aggregation layers, and Cisco 3500 and 2900 series switches at the customer layer. Our network is fully meshed and redundant with 8 backbone providers for a total of 27 Gbps of available bandwidth.
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