Dallas, Texas – (The Hosting News) – December 16, 2008 – On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer Technologies, recently upgraded all of its data center network connectivity.

The upgrades included additional 10G connections, for a total of 20 across the company’s facilities in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington DC. The new connections provide additional redundancy with low latency across both SoftLayer’s Public and Private networks and increase bandwidth for SoftLayer customers’ ever-growing capacity needs.

Ric Moseley, Vice President of Engineering at SoftLayer noted, ”Network reliability is the backbone of all we offer and our customers’ first priority. We are committed to continually enhancing our network and increasing our redundant connections to ensure we deliver industry-leading performance and uptime.”

The company’s Seattle data center received additional 10G peering connections from Comcast and the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX), as well as 10G transit connections from Level 3 and NTT America. The facility’s upgrades included the installation of Internap’s Flow Control Platform (FCP), which enhances Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing performance by monitoring each provider’s connections and rerouting traffic when a connection is interrupted.

The Dallas data center’s upgrades included adding a 10G Comcast connection for private peering. Currently this link carries more than 2.5Gbps of network traffic; in the coming days, it will have connectivity into Equinix facilities in Dallas and Washington DC, providing direct connections to additional carriers.

SoftLayer’s upgraded data center connectivity includes:

Dallas, TX

• Comcast-1×10Gbps
• Global Crossing-1×10Gbps
• Internap-1×10Gbps
• Level 3-1×10Gbps
• NTT America-2×10Gbps
• SAVVIS-1×10Gbps
• Equinix-1×10Gbps

Seattle, WA

• Comcast-1×10Gbps
• Internap-2×10Gbps
• Level 3-1×10Gbps
• Quest-1×10Gbps
• SIX-1×10Gbp

Washington, D.C.

• Internap-2×10Gbps
• Level 3-1×10Gbps
• NTT America-2×10Gbps
• Equinix-1×10Gbps

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer provides next-generation web hosting and on-demand datacenter services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA and Washington DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first network-within-a-network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

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