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Technology
Browser & OS Support
VIPES is accessible via the world’s most popular Web browsers
(including IE, Firefox, Netscape, and Mozilla), and
operating systems including Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows
XP, and Macintosh OS X / Linux.
Datacenter & Technology
VIPES presently maintains two geographically diverse
datacenters: A private, caged co-location in Elmsford,
NY owned and operated by MCI/Verizon Business, as well as a
7,200 sq. ft. data center located in Pittsford, NY.
The Elmsford facility is considered VIPES' primary
datacenter, and the Pittsford facility is considered the
firm's secondary datacenter.
Our
primary, Tier One datacenter’s entire Internet
infrastructure was built to withstand complete loss of
connectivity from multiple vendors, and still perform fast
and reliably. Multiple OC-192, and OC-48 pipelines
connect VIPES’s datacenters to hundreds of public and
private peering relationships reliably and quickly to
deliver Internet data. The system relies on a series of
redundant router configurations and standby routers to
provide instant and redundant failover of an entire Internet
connection, should there be any hardware, software, or
connection failure, and our entire Internet pipeline is
monitored by trained personnel to spot network slowdowns,
hardware failures, or other problems.
The
datacenter is highly secure, and is protected by hardened
walls and doors. VIPES’s servers and data
storage devices are only accessible to authorized employees
that pass through metal detectors, photo verification, and
fingerprint-based biometric identification. The
center’s systems are supported on two separate power grids:
diesel back-up generators, and UPS-based battery backup.
The
VIPES architecture is built on a network layer
utilizing Cisco routers, switches, and Pix firewalls.
All of the networking gear is built on a redundant N+1
active/passive model, enabling full fail-over of all traffic
in the case of downtime. A redundant cluster of F5
load balancers provide Layer 7 application level failover.
The application tier utilizes Red Hat Linux ES4 and Fedora
operating systems. All servers are built into large
clusters with more than a dozen servers per cluster.
These clusters each perform a dedicated function such as MX
transfer, enabling efficient single function operation of a
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