GLASGOW, Scotland, November 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Moves Internet Exchange
Point out of London
for Greater Resilience
Cloud computing company iomart has made a significant capital
investment in Cisco routing technology to ensure its network can
meet the growing demand for capacity as the growth in Internet
traffic continues.
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iomart has installed two Cisco ASR 9912 Routers to future proof
against the high data demand it expects to be placed on its network
by customers, putting it on a par with some of the big Internet
transit carriers. The new routers give iomart four times as much
port density as was previously available. Increasing switch port
density boosts network performance by allowing simultaneous
transmissions of data and increasing the bandwidth or volume of
information that can be transferred.
The Cisco ASR 9912 Routers support 10 line-card slots, with each
slot capable of switching up to two Tbps of bi-directional traffic.
In its first phase, the system will support 4+1 fabric cards
allowing 550 Gbps of non-redundant (440 Gbps redundant) switching
capacity.
One router has also been moved out of London to an Internet Exchange point in Slough
to ensure greater resilience for iomart's network in the event of a
major incident in the capital. The network improvement will allow
iomart to peer directly with major European cities without the need
to route traffic via London,
resulting in reduced Internet latency on these routes.
Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart,
says: "This is another significant investment by iomart giving us
the big network we need to meet the ever greater data demands of
business. It will give us the capacity to carry huge amounts of
traffic out to the Internet from our data centres. Few hosting
companies of our size are making investments like this but we want
our customers to know that it doesn't matter how much video, mobile
or file data they are creating, we can handle it for them."
The routers also give iomart the ability to absorb much larger
amounts of attack data via its Arbor DDoS Peakflow platform and
deliver clean traffic out to customers without affecting their
services.
Richard McMahon, Group Head of
Technical Operations for iomart, said: "It's like having the latest
Ferrari of the Internet world. These routers give us huge capacity
and huge throughput to deliver our hosting services to customers
with no risk of network failure."
Last year iomart announced it had carried out the first major
deployment of Cisco® Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) and Bi
Directional (BiDi) Transmission technology to turn its newly
expanded data centre in Maidenhead, one of ten it owns and operates
in the UK, into a truly software defined data centre.
About iomart
Award winning cloud company iomart Group PLC (AIM:IOM)
enables businesses and organisations to operate their online data
and IT environments safely and securely. Headquartered in
Glasgow, Scotland, iomart partners
with leading vendors such as VMware, EMC, Microsoft, Amazon,
Asigra, Arbor, Cisco and Dell to offer customers a centrally
managed, controlled and completely agnostic set of hybrid, private
and public cloud platforms. By owning a global network and
datacentre infrastructure, iomart can support any customer who
wishes to move seamlessly between any and all of these platforms
with a consultative level of knowledge and expertise, delivering
cloud services to meet exact business needs. For more information
visit http://www.iomart.com
@iomart
SOURCE iomart Group PLC