Network & Connectivity with firstcolo: Low latency anywhere in the world
Our premium network for you: A multi-terabit strong external connection of our backbone guarantees high availability for all your applications.
Our high-quality network for you
Hub of the Internet: Frankfurt am Main node
Our network infrastructure offers high availability and security and is only a few minutes’ walk away from the world’s largest Internet exchange point. To ensure the best possible connectivity to every endpoint, our traffic mix consists of Tier 1 carriers, direct connections, and Internet exchanges: Our customers benefit from the resulting high availability of our locations. Through our direct connect to the world’s largest Internet node, DE-CIX, we achieve the lowest latencies within our infrastructure. We also enable direct connection and optimal connectivity to over 1,000 networks. To offer our customers the best possible protection against cybercrime such as DDoS attacks, we operate a backbone with multi-terabit capacity. This allows even large DDoS attacks to be easily absorbed.
Higher connectivity and reliability thanks to strong backbone
Through our multi-terabit backbone, we can achieve much higher connectivity for customer racks than you are used to with other service providers. The fully redundant backbone in combination with the standard redundant uplinks for IP access guarantees the highest availability for your infrastructure. In addition, we offer a comprehensive range of IP transit services at our Points-of-Presence. This means you benefit from our backbone regardless of location. The selection of carriers plays a crucial role in the availability, bandwidth, and latency of the connection.
Our uplinks to carriers at a glance
For best latencies and availability, we currently operate uplinks to the following carriers:
- GTT
- DTAG
- Arelion
- NTT
- Cogent
- DE-CIX
- Peering.cz
We rely on certified high-quality hardware
Our partners: We rely on high-quality brand-name hardware for the operation of our network. Therefore, you can be sure that your IT is in the best hands with us.
Special features of our networks
DWDM fiber ring
In addition to our first-class carrier network, we operate our own DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) infrastructure throughout Frankfurt. This connects our in-house data centers with each other as well as with our external locations within Frankfurt, allowing us to transport business-critical data at high speeds and with minimal latency. By operating an active DWDM infrastructure, we can offer transport services between locations at the physical level up to 400 Gbps.
Dark fiber network with multiple redundancy
To achieve an adequate Datacenter Interconnect (DCI), we have redundant dark fiber connections between our own data centers in Frankfurt am Main. As a user, you benefit from optimal connectivity and low latencies between our locations. To completely minimize the risk of failure, we have also deliberately designed the dark fiber lines redundantly. In addition to geo-redundant backup concepts and encrypted data transmission, we can also offer you dedicated wavelengths on our DWDM equipment.
Guaranteed performance
Our entire network design is completely redundant. We always keep at least one more of all components than is necessary for productive operation. We consistently maintain this standard so that we can react immediately if necessary and prevent any unavailability at all times. Furthermore, our network is not overbooked, and we never utilize any uplink more than 50 percent. This way, we avoid short-term bandwidth bottlenecks. Peak times or short-term peaks are just as little of a problem as short-term expansions. Your infrastructure remains highly available with us at all times.
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