Data Centers

On the Internet, speed is king. Slow download pages turn your users off. You get better return from your advertising investment when your pages download fast.

According to Boardwatch magizine, most of the Internet's traffic is carried by a few major backbone providers such as UUNET (MCI Worldcom), Sprint, AT&T, ...etc. To ensure Apelles hosted web pages get to users fast, our data center is directly linked to these Internet backbones. Most users can reach Sentris data center via a single backbone which avoids the common network problem: traffic jam at the backbone intersections.

Data Center Locations
...DC-01 - Baltimore, Maryland USA ...DC-02 - Seattle, Washington USA ...DC-03 - Chicago, Illinois USA ...DC-04 - St Louis, Missouri USA ...DC-05 - Lynnwood, Washington USA

Connected to Three Backbones

Our state-of-the-art Network Center located in Baltimore, Maryland is OnNet Multiple Tier-1 with GlobalCenter (GC), Qwest Communications and GTE through three separate bandwidth-on-demand connections which enter Baltimore in the building. GC, a Tier 1 provider whose 13,000-mile fiber optic network and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology provide an enormous 460 gigabytes per second (Gbps) of capacity worldwide, has an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) fiber node located just a few floors below the NC. Qwest comes into Baltimore with an OC-48. They also have an ATM fiber node floors below the NC. Our Qwest connection enables us to offer additional redundancy and better routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia. With our carriers, our router has up to 150,000 possible routes to send each packet of traffic. Genuity, a division of GTE (now Verizon), is our third Tier One Internet backbone. Genuity provides excellent network performance as a result of their high-speed peering arrangements with other Tier One Internet backbone providers. The GTE global network delivers customers directly onto the Internet via a high-speed connection to its private, super-capacity backbone, including 17,000 miles of fiber and OC192 capacity. It is comprised of more than 800 U.S. local access points and approximately 1,500 international local access points in more than 150 countries. Furthermore, because of these unique connections, we do not need to link to the Internet though an OC3 or T3 Telecom circuit. Instead, independent cables run inside our building directly from the NC to all three carriers points of presence. These lines can handle the bandwidth of a T3 or an OC3 with DWDM. Plus, they handle several times the bandwidth of an OC3.

Other Backbones

• Verio OC3 155Mbps
• Verio #2 Gigabit 1000Mbp
• Time Warner GB 1000Mbps
• Savvis OC3 155Mbps
• Cogent GB 1000Mbps
• ELI DS3 45Mbps

Data Center-04 (DC-04) Specifications

DC-03 located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The city of St. Louis is at a strategic central location in the United States which is safe from Wars, Earthquakes, and Hurricanes. St. Louis' central location makes it an ideal place to distribute Internet data throughout the United States and all over the world. Brainbench survey ranked St. Louis no. 6 for IT IQ among all US cities.

The data center building is a steel framed building with triple power feeds from the electric utility company. All major carriers (AT&T, MCI Worldcom, Level 3, Southwestern Bell, ... etc) have POPs in the building.

The 22,000 square feet data center can host over 10,000 servers and is monitored by our 24x7 on-site tech staff.

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