BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP

 

 

The Arkansas.Net statewide network is built on three core network points located in Fayetteville, Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Each location is situated in high security concrete reinforced structures. Our primary data center in Fayetteville sits in an environmentally conditioned computer room built for temperature control and access security. Network facilities are accessible by authorized personnel only, with access to the building secured by electronic maglocks protecting our core inter networking equipment.

All equipment receives conditioned power to protect from damaging voltage spikes, brownouts, and electromagnetic noise. Even during potentially damaging lightning storms common in Arkansas, our servers receive a steady, clean source of power. A backup power generator supplies emergency power in our data center in the event of a total power outage.

Our data center is connected to the Internet through multiple Internet connections through one of three core network access points. Data is routed through these connections via our Cisco® 7513 series routers using the BGP4 protocol to automatically route internet traffic down the fastest route. 

Cisco® routers are used throughout our internal WAN network spanning the entire state of Arkansas. Arkansas.Net is proud to be utilizing a network based on a 100% Cisco® WAN infrastructure.

POWERFUL SERVERS

Arkansas.Net servers are the best! Currently we utilize the following equipment in our network operations center.

• SUN E-3000 Enterprise Servers
• SUN E-450 Enterprise Servers
• SUN Netra 1125 Servers
• SUN E-250 Enterprise Servers
• SUN Storage Arrays

Each SUN® Server is loaded with to 512MB to 1 Gigabyte of RAM, fast and wide ultra SCSI hard drives and networked together with Cisco® Ethernet Switches.

BACKUP SYSTEMS

All customer data is backed up daily to our DAT storage system. In the event of a hard drive crash, we can install a new hard drive from our reserve supply while the server is still powered and running and restore the drive content from the tape backup.