American Internet Services has placed the highest service priority on high performing Internet connectivity, and the primary component is uptime. AIS’s San Diego colocation facilities provide the most uptime, bandwidth, and performance:

• Fiber carrier-neutral. AIS’s San Diego colocation facilities house eleven fiber providers for redundancy and bandwidth: AT&T, Pacific Bell, WorldCom, Time Warner, Level 3, COX, Cogent, Willtel, Yipes, and Telepacific. Both San Diego collocation facilities have two separate fiber vaults, with the fiber entering the building through two independent routes.
• Multiple Internet backbones. AIS San Diego colocation facilities have access to the top six major Internet backbones: UUNet, Qwest, Level 3, XO, Yipes/Willtel, and Verio. Customers at the Lightwave and Tech Center San Diego colocation facilities have direct access to 96% of the Internet.
• High bandwidth. Because of the number of Internet backbones and fiber providers, AIS’s San Diego collocation facilities have at least six times bandwidth available, over the standard bandwidth utilization.
• Low latency, packet loss, and jitter. Latency, packet loss, and jitter (inconsistent packet streams) are caused by impediments or congestion in the Internet connection. AIS’s San Diego colocation facilities provide the best network performance by routing traffic among a number of different Internet and fiber providers.
• Self-healing routing. Our San Diego colocation facility features up to 15,000 routes, which are adjusted 10,000 times every minute. This gives you the most efficient routes among Internet backbones.

Both AIS San Diego colocation centers use the highest-quality routers in redundant configurations:

• Backbone routing, through two Cisco 12000 routers, connected to multiple Internet backbones, and another Cisco 6500 router connected to two more Internet backbones
• Cisco 6500 series switches, connecting the San Diego colocation facilities’ clients and internal networks to the Internet
• Aggregation routing, using Cisco 7500 routers, connecting ISP clients to the Internet

Why this matters to your business...
AIS’s San Diego colocation facilities use performance-based routing, rather than the inexpensive route, and that translates into better network performance by any metric, especially uptime and bandwidth. AIS' San Diego colo facility instantaneously adjusts traffic routes through multiple Internet backbones, fiber carriers, and routers. High-speed, high uptime, and low latency are the basis of a business network. Along with the obvious benefits of buoying internal and external networks, websites, and email, a reliably fast Internet connection makes it possible to utilize resource-sensitive technologies like voice over IP and video conferencing.