MVI Hosting utilizes a Tier 1 data center to provide the highest quality hosting. There is only a handful of Tier 1 hosting facilities in the world. The Tier 1 facility which MVI Hosting’ uses is the NAP of the Americas in Miami FL which is located several major internet backbones.

 

NAP of the Americas

 

The Tier-1 status is determined by what carriers connect to the facility and the amount of traffic generated through their network. The NAP of the Americas has over 60 customers and has attained the customer critical mass needed for Tier-1 status.

 

The NAP of the Americas serves as a point of interconnectivity between the North American fiber routes and the networks in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe. It is a next-generation carrier-class facility, utilizing the most advanced networking standards in the world. The network architecture of the NAP of the Americas boasts as its core, an efficient high-speed parallel cross point switch fabric. This fabric has a capacity of up to 178,000,000 packets per second of throughput. In addition, edge switches provide gigabit speed connectivity to the meshed 128 Gbps core chassis peering fabric.

 

Facilities such as the NAP of the Americas are reserved for companies that are concerned about the bandwidth and connectivity necessary to enable “peace of mind” when it comes to application availability. This level of service may come at a higher premium, but you cannot find a better place to host your application. For more information on our various hosting services, please visit our dedicated hosting site: www.mvihosting.com.