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Sanity Technology undertakes network resilience, fault-tolerance and redundancy to the extreme, which is why we are chosen as the provider of choice by corporations that require the utmost reliability. One of our key product offerings is a 99.999% (The five nines) Service Level Agreement (SLA) to organizations that demand serious service availability. The five nines is a mission critical service solution that we have successfully delivered on network connectivity to our clients without fault since inception.
How we achieve this
The Sanity Technology network consists of three primary Points of Presences (PoPs) throughout the inner Brisbane CBD area. These locations include our own Facility at 360 St Pauls Tce, and external facilities via Pipe Networks (127 Creek St), and iSeek Communications (100 Ipswich Rd).
As our primary focus is towards network resilience and redundancy, a fault-tolerant dark fiber loop topology was established between all three PoPs with geographically diverse paths utilized as shown in the map below. This topology ensures that if a particular path is interrupted, such as a nasty backhoe operator accidentally digging up a fiber cable, full capacity communications will continue to flow uninterrupted across the remaining available paths.
In addition to fault-tolerant communications between locations, Sanity Technology's internet connectivity is extremely robust with multiple internet transit carriers throughout multiple PoPs in combination with peering on the PipeIX network. Ultimately, internet connectivity is sustained not only if a fiber path is interrupted, but also if a transit connectivity provider fails, or even in the disastrous event of an entire PoP becoming unavailable.
Network protection
Would you choose a modern car that doesn't offer the protection of an air-bag safety system as a standard?
If not, then why would you choose an internet service provider that doesn't protect its network with an Intrusion Prevention System?
While other providers leave the entire responsibility with their clients, Sanity Technology offers constant protection of its network network against the increasing threats that exist on the internet - including distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and thousands of application vulnerabilities. This additional level of protection also extends to the level of network resilience and availability of the network, ensuring the delivery of a complete package solution to our clients.
The technical detail
To those that are interested in the technical detail, the multi-carrier approach is sustained via the use of BGP4 routing technology via ASN24473, and fully portable IP network addressing assigned by APNIC, including the IP network 122.99.112.0/21. This means that Sanity Technology has ownership and full control over its IP network and is not reliant on any single external provider. Furthermore, multiple Cisco 7300 series routers are utilized at each location performing BGP4 routing duties, in combination with Cisco 3700 series gigabit switches utilizing the spanning tree protocol (STP) for managing the multi-pop fiber loop, and Cisco 4200 series intrusion prevention system (IPS) devices filtering all nasty traffic that may attempt to enter the network.
Carrier Options
We believe in offering our co-location clients the freedom to utilize other carriers if they choose to do so, despite Sanity Technology's offering of what we believe to be the most robust and reliable connectivity in the business. The provision of VLAN connectivity from 10Mb to 2Gbps across to the Pipe Networks and iSeek Communications facilities is instantly available, . This is particularly useful if you already have co-located equipment in either facility, or have pre-established transit connectivity arrangements in place, allowing you to seamlessly expand your LAN from one facility to another.