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To: Condor who wrote (7373)	5/6/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

IDT's Dedicated ISP Backbone the Heart of Net2Phone>>> of Net2Phone IDT is a national 'Tier 1' Internet Service Provider whose backbone is designed for high speed connectivity. IDT is one of the only Internet Service Providers that will guarantee 99.2% uptime and throughput to the backbone. Backbone Overview IDT's fully redundant clear channel DS3 backbone is unique from other providers in that it makes use of telecom switching technologies that route data traffic with up to 1/1000th the latency of a typical router. Our clear channel DS3s are switched, via these units, and provide a stable, secure platform for our Cisco 7500 series routing equipment. Should any one of our National DS3s fail, data will be switched through a backup fault tolerant path that operates below the IP layer to avoid the large overhead involved in recalculating routed paths. This allows us to recover within milliseconds; it takes our competitors minutes. IDT's network architecture is based on a minimum hop strategy: Any network node is a maximum of five hops from an Internet meet point. This unique design minimizes packet loss and delay, and guarantees the best possible performance. This topology is unique among major ISP's. IDT currently peers in four public Internet meet points, (Mae-East, Mae-West, AADS NAP and Sprint NAP). It is here that IDT hands off traffic to and from other large ISPs and over 70 other ISPs who seek peering arrangements. In addition to draining traffic at public exchanges, we also have mutual private peering setup with other large national ISPs to provide high-quality, stable traffic flow and avoid congestion. We monitor activities on our backbone with several tools. These tools are a combination of commercially available and proprietary applications developed by Cabletron and our own development staff. We leverage these applications to provide us with snapshots of our network every 15 seconds. The engineers monitor overall network stability and bandwidth utilization. This allows us to identify "hot-spots" on the network before they develop into problems, thus insuring network integrity. Our Network Operations Center monitors the network and it's connectivity 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year.v read it and weep