ISWest Intelligent Routing Technology

ISWest uses proprietary Intelligent Routing Technology to overcome the weakness of border gateway protocol (BGP). Unlike BGP, ISWest's Intelligent Routing Technology continually monitors all of the Internet connections leading from your network or colocation to the end destination and chooses the most appropriate pathway in real-time. Our technology takes into consideration speed (latency), performance, stability and even the type of application you're using. Your network is continually tuned to the performance of your applications, routing around brownouts and blackouts and creating the best user experience available today, so you are assured that your Internet communication is as fast as possible.

What is BGP?
When a business connects to more than one network (multi-homes), it usually employs a networking technology called border gateway protocol (BGP). BGP is typically configured by a networking professional to make decisions regarding the network over which data should travel. It is an important job, particularly when one of your networks is experiencing significant slowness - called brownouts - or outage - called blackouts.

Unfortunately, BGP is only aware of network trouble during an outage, not brownouts, which are much more common and lead to significant user problems. If your company is using the Internet for anything that can affect your business, this slowness will directly translate into client complaints, lower employee productivity and can have a financial impact on the performance of your organization. Today's businesses require solutions that ensure optimal performance of applications by improving network efficiency and traffic control. With the ISWest Intelligent Routing Technology, companies can now have a nonstop Internet connection that is stable and that offers predictable, high performance. Guaranteed!

Features

• Redundant, high-speed connections to top eight major Internet backbones, offering unmatched reliability in the industry.
• Intelligent route control technology dynamically identifies the optimal path for your Internet applications or business solution so you get the fastest results.
• Proactive industry-leading Service Level Agreements with 99.99 percent uptime guarantee.

Benefits

• Rest comfortably knowing that your network is actively monitoring and routing around blackouts, brownouts and other areas of degraded service on the Internet.
• Avoid suffering from downtime due to convergence, flapping and other issues that plague a conventional BGP network.
• With a direct path to the top eight major backbones, your Internet traffic will no longer suffer from the slowdowns that are associated with network "peering points."