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Our Network and The Processing Center

Our Network is one of the most advanced, safe and secure processing solutions around.  Do not allow your company’s shipping data (in a sense your customer information) be viewed by people working out of their homes auditing your shipments.  There is no security there.  A lot of auditors hire out people to review your shipping information and contact the carriers for the adjustments.  That is not secure!

Here is a little information on the servers that run your network:

We understand that in order to deliver premium services, the facility and network these services run on are secure, robust, and redundant. To that end, our servers are positioned at one of the premium datacenters in the world, and as an engineered network for low latency, maximum uptime, and multi-layered security.

The main servers operate within the Miami NAP of the Americas. The Miami NAP is the 6th public Network Access Point on the Internet, home to DNS root servers, over 60 Tier1 providers, Emergency 911 operations, and US State Department Operations. The facility is considered part of the critical infrastructure of our nation, and is properly provisioned as such.

 -  32 feet above sea level. The ground level of the building is 14 feet above sea level.
 -  Cutting-edge surge/lightning prevention system works in a radius of 300 ft. to detract strikes by discharging a static electricity flare.
 -  Roof slope designed to aid in drainage of floodwater in excess of 100-year storm intensity assisted by 18 rooftop drains.
 -  The building is designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane with 12 million pounds of roof ballast.
 -  12 Million pounds of concrete for roof ballast.
 -  7' thick solid concrete exterior panels.
 -  The building is outside FEMA 500-year designated flood zone.
 -  The building is outside the Miami-Dade hurricane evacuation zone.
 -  2 separate armed security checkpoints.
 -  100% AC or DC power availability guarantee.
 -  Redundant power vaults fed from multiple substations
 -  Two independent 13,200 volt feeders supply the high voltage switchgear.
 -  Uninterrupted, stable power delivered by 6 HiTEC
 -  Continuous Power Systems (CPS) which provide a transfer time 10 times better than a typical UPS power system found in most data centers.
 -  Each HiTEC unit is rated at 1800 kilowatts for a total of 10.8 megawatts of capacity.
 -  Miami has been ranked as one of the top-five best interconnected cities in the world, ahead of San Francisco, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
 -  Absolute best site for connectivity to the majority of South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
 -  Four redundant gigabit connections through Tier1 and Tier2 providers with BGP4 for complete access redundancy.  Tier1 providers are Global Crossing and Savvis, with Expedient and Terremark as Tier2 providers (each with multiple OC-48 and Gig-E Tier1 uplinks.)
 -  Award-winning multi-layer Intrusion Protection and Intrusion Detection Systems, as well as full-featured redundant stateful packet inspection firewalls.
 -  Individual firewalls, IPS and IDS systems available for dedicated servers, providing the ultimate layer of protection.