General...

Based in Montreal Canada, the data center of Axess Communications is equipped with CISCO equipment to assure quality and stable service. Our AxessView surveillance center assures that our data center is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. All our services offer a reliability guarantee and an up-time of 99.9%.

Our network...

Our data center is located next to the largest data centers in North America. We have several redundant gateways to OC-3 (155 Mbps) and OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) Internet connections that are assigned to a backbone, which can reach flows of OC-182.

Our surveillance center constantly analyzes the circuit usage during peak hours, this assures an exceptional bandwidth quality. Furthermore, our CISCO equipment is configured to use the BGP4 protocol (Border Gateway Protocol) to control packet destination. This assures us that your information is using the most rapid route to the destination data centers around the world. If for one reason or another, a data center is down, your information is immediately re-directed to an alternative route.

Our data center...

Our data center was constructed and planned by our best engineers to avoid service interruptions. Here are the main points that characterize our data center.

Data Center
	Access by magnetic swipe card
	24-Hour camera surveillance
	Security guard
	Entry and exit logs
	No visitors authorized. Only Axess Communications personnel can access the data centers.
	Continuous power supply
	Fire extinguishers with inert gas
	Air-conditioned locale
	Situated in Montreal Canada, a secure area where natural disasters such as earthquakes or hurricanes are not frequent.

Our network security...

We use the most effective firewall systems, to offer our clients maximum security against malicious activity that can be found on the Internet. Furthermore, our surveillance center constantly analyses the network usage and prevents all abnormal usage of network resources.