Carrier-Neutral Infrastructure

Our Network

A resilient, carrier-neutral backbone engineered for performance, redundancy, and low-latency connectivity across major North American markets.

Multiple Tier 1 Upstreams
IX Peering Major Exchanges
99.99% Uptime
<50ms Avg Latency

Built for Resilience

Our carrier-neutral backbone connects through multiple Tier 1 transit providers and major Internet Exchanges, ensuring your traffic always takes the optimal path.

Every link in our network is fully redundant with automatic failover. No single point of failure stands between your infrastructure and the global internet.

By maintaining diverse upstream relationships and peering at key exchanges, we deliver consistent low-latency performance to eyeball networks, cloud providers, and enterprise endpoints worldwide.

CORE T1-A T1-B IX-1 IX-2 CDN Cloud

Network Topology

Our backbone spans key interconnection points across the western United States with redundant fiber paths and direct cloud on-ramps.

InternetCarrier Network Topology

Los Angeles
Primary DC
San Jose
IX
Seattle
IX
Dallas
POP
Chicago
POP
100G Backbone Redundant Fiber Multiple Tier 1 Direct Cloud On-Ramps

Peering & IX Presence

We maintain an open peering policy and participate in major Internet Exchanges to optimize routing and reduce latency for your traffic.

Internet Exchanges

Direct peering at major global exchanges for optimal routing and reduced latency.

  • Equinix IX (Los Angeles, San Jose)
  • SIX - Seattle Internet Exchange
  • Any2 Exchange (Los Angeles)
  • LINX - London Internet Exchange
  • AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange

Peering Policy

We welcome peering requests from networks of all sizes and maintain transparent policies.

  • Open peering policy for all qualified networks
  • Listed on PeeringDB with full details
  • IPv4 and IPv6 peering supported
  • IRR registered & RPKI signed routes
  • No minimum traffic requirements

Looking Glass

Real-time visibility into our network routing and performance. Query BGP routes and run traceroutes from our core routers.

ic-core-01.lax ~ looking-glass
# BGP route lookup
ic-lg> show ip bgp 8.8.8.0/24

BGP routing table entry for 8.8.8.0/24
Paths: (3 available, best #1)
  AS15169 via 206.81.80.1 (Tier1-A) [best]
    Origin: IGP, MED: 100, LocalPref: 200, Weight: 0
  AS15169 via 198.32.124.1 (IX-Equinix)
    Origin: IGP, MED: 150, LocalPref: 180, Weight: 0
  AS15169 via 206.72.210.1 (Tier1-B)
    Origin: IGP, MED: 120, LocalPref: 190, Weight: 0

# Traceroute
ic-lg> traceroute 1.1.1.1

 1  ic-core-01.lax   <1ms  <1ms  <1ms
 2  ic-edge-01.lax   <1ms  <1ms  <1ms
 3  tier1-a-peer.lax  1ms   1ms   1ms
 4  cloudflare.lax    2ms   2ms   2ms
 5  1.1.1.1          2ms   2ms   2ms

DDoS Protection

Multi-layered defense built into our network core protects your infrastructure from volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks.

Always-On Detection

Continuous traffic analysis using flow-based monitoring detects anomalies in real time, identifying threats before they impact your services.

Scrubbing Capacity

Terabits per second of scrubbing capacity across multiple scrubbing centers filters malicious traffic while passing legitimate packets cleanly.

Automatic Response

Automated mitigation triggers within seconds of detection, with intelligent filtering rules that adapt to evolving attack vectors in real time.

Network Specs

Industry-leading performance metrics backed by our commitment to quality infrastructure and continuous investment.

100G+

Backbone

High-capacity backbone links between all network nodes with room to scale.

<50ms

Latency

Average round-trip latency to major US markets and cloud providers.

<0.1%

Packet Loss

Near-zero packet loss across our backbone ensures reliable data delivery.

<5ms

Jitter

Consistent low jitter for real-time applications, voice, and video traffic.

99.99% Uptime SLA Guarantee

Our network uptime commitment is backed by an industry-leading service level agreement with automatic credit application and transparent reporting.

99.99% Network Uptime
5x Credit Multiplier
24/7 Monitoring
Auto Credit Application
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