Our datacentre's network architecture is a complete Cisco product and is a Cisco Certified Network. Our datacentre utilize fully redundant Cisco 7500 (redundant routers and redundant cards within the router) at the core and state of the art 3550 L3 switch / routers as border routers.
To further maximize redundancy, our datacentre utilizes distributed 2924 XL EN switches to ensure that single chasis failure will have minimum downtime effects on Hosting2nv's servers – unlike many of the competition who aggregate hundreds of servers in a single chasis based switch like the 6500 or 5500 which will take down many customers should the CPU or power fail. This approach gives us at Hosting2nv maximum power failure protection and switch failure protection to distribute the load and risk.

The datacentre also utilizes VLANS to prevent customer IP space hijacking and conflicts. By keeping the network as flat as possible – route convergence and latency are minimised in the backbone and the packets are launched to the best provider through BGP4 on the core. The datacentre's network is fully meshed and redundant with 7 backbone providers. The current network consists of a gigabit (1000mbit) to Level3, a gigabit to AboveNet, a gigabit to Savvis/cable&wireless, a gigabit to XO, a gigabit to PCCWBTN, a gigabit to Telia, and a gigabit to Atlanta Internet Exchange.

By having providers with a larger burst capacity our datacentre is able to handle DoS attacks better than many of the competitors that have chosen many smaller pipes. This is because a DoS attack will many times concentrate itself on one inbound or outbound connection and can swamp it if it is only a 100 mbit or an oc3. Our datacentre does not provision less than GIG circuits on the backbone any more and it also allows the datacentre plenty of room to fail back and forth from provider to provider without regards to where the traffic is going to prefer since any one of the datacentre's links has far sufficient size to handle all of our traffic.

All routers are monitored for key factors including temperature, CPU and memory utilization along with monitoring of connections for transit latency and uptime. The datacentre is notified immediately in the event of a process going out of tolerance or an outage through our automated systems which allows them to respond quickly with corrective action. The datacentre ensures all servers are monitored for uptime and immediately notified in the event of an outage on the server.