Backbone

Webair maintains its own dark fiber network between our intra-city locations (listed above). The dark fiber is provided by multiple utility carriers (listed below) and is used to create a double layer ring between our locations. Webair lights its own dark fiber with both active and passive DWDM/CDWM equipment provided by Transmode and Cube Optics AG. The rings provided 180Gbps redundant connectivity between our on-net locations. This capacity is used to allow us to take advantage of all providers and networks at all locations.

Should there be an outage at any location, Webair has enough capacity at all others to handle it's full network load. Our backbone is also used to provide other networks with access and transport between locations. Webair is also able to utilize it's backbone network to provide it's colocation clients with direct cross connects with over 300 IP providers.

Peering Locations

A peering point is a place where many networks interconnect together to exchange traffic on a peering basis. Peering and peering points reduce the number of networks that data must traverse to get to its destination and therefore improve the speed and reliability of the Internet. If geographically close networks peer, then data can travel a short path no matter what the configuration of transit provider's networks may be. Webair has chosen to build into peering points for these reasons.

This enables for the best possible path between sites hosted at Webair and their end users. Webair is able to directly connect to many large broadband (cable/DSL) and dial-up networks directly. Users using these providers would travel directly from their ISP to Webair without needing to travel through a traditional backbonet network. This reduces the possible points of failure and slowness that may occur when additional hops and networks come into the picture. Webair currently peers at the following locations:

» NYIIX New York, NY 100+ Peers
» Equinix New York City Metro IX Newark, NJ 20+ Peers
» PAIX New York, NY 50+ Peers
» PacketExchange London, UK 150+ Peers
» AMS-IX Amsterdam NL (Webair Amsterdam Network) 200+ Peers
» FreeBIX Brussels, Belgium 20+ Peers

Carriers

Webair connects to the following carriers for transit connectivity. Most carriers are connected at more than 1 physical location, using multiple 10Gbps Ethernet links.

Primary Transit

» Global Crossings
» Level3 Communications, Inc
» Teleglobe/TATA
» TeliaSonera

Transport Providers

» Keyspan Communications
» ConEdison Communications
» Looking Glass Communications
» Interoute

Network Services

Webair provides the following network services at its On-Net locations:

» Transit IP connectivity. (1/10Gbps Ethernet and POS)

» Layer2 Transport between all ON-Net locations

» MPLS based transport between On-net locations at all standard Ethernet speeds
» Diverse Gigabit/2.5/10Gbps waves between On-net locations
» Dark fiber strands between On-net locations