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Global Net Access, LLC, has entered into a new partnership to test and utilize Internap’s (News - Alert) 10 GB IP connection to increase performance and redundancy within its gold network.

 

The company is a provider of co-location services in the Southeast United States and a provider of outsourced managed and unmanaged servers worldwide.

 

Officials said that GNAX will use an existing dark fiber route purchased from AGL (News - Alert) Networks of Atlanta and will work with the engineering team to create a “solution” that traverses a different path than GNAX’s current fiber to its providers.

 

“This path completely avoids Telx at 56 Marietta Street, which is the current termination point of the GNAX metro Ethernet networks,” said Jeff Hinkle, president, in a statement.

Hinkle said that the new fiber terminates at Internap’s 250 Williams Street facility and provides both increased redundancy and capacity. This, said Hinkle, is unique to most of the data centers in the region -- especially in the city of Atlanta.

 

“Many have a ring or multiple paths, but like we were constructed in the past, they all come back to one single-point-of-failure facility,” he said.

 

Officials said that the new connection is expected to enhance the performance of the GNAX Gold network.

 

Officials said that Internap utilizes performance-based routing, which selects the best routes from their backbone providers, which differ from the current providers on the GNAX Gold network.

 

GNAX will use its own route optimization to select the best path of its current as well as the best paths of the Internap optimized routes.

 

“When assessing the network performance during our testing, it really became apparent that this was a decision we needed to make. The performance was vastly superior to anything we had tested in the past in a single provider and it made it very simple for us to move forward,” Hinkle said.

 

Hinkle said he believes that GNAX gold network will be unsurpassed for performance on the Atlanta market.