The Alexander First Nation of the Alberta province of Canada, has revealed that it will open a new, state-of-the-art, data centre in December this year for the convenience of licensees, following the announcement that it is launching a new online gambling jurisdiction.
Alexander Internet Technologies (AIT) has been formed to manage and staff the facility, and construction is underway on a high availability 25,000ft┬▓ data centre, offering clients secure server co-location facilities enjoying uncapped bandwidth, wirespeed connectivity, 24x7x365 onsite support, and failsafe backup and redundancy through a strategic alliance with a sister site in Asia.
With an ultra-low latency of .04 seconds, the data centre is ideally suited to allow clients to service end customers in Asia and Europe.
"This data center will allow international customers the comfort of securely running their operations with 100 percent uptime, while maintaining fail-safe global switchover capability as required, said Cheryl Savoie, of Alexander Internet Technologies. "This offering is in response to market demand, and builds on Alexander First Nation's significant investment in the technology.
The AIT Data Centre Network is comprised entirely of carrier-class Network hardware, featuring redundancy at all layers. At the hardware layer multiple routers and switches are configured in parallel with dynamic routing and switching to ensure automated fail-over during hardware, software or link failure. The centre is located directly on multiple diverse fiber rings, and is redundantly connected to IP carriers by a minimum of two separate local providers. BGP4 is used in conjunction with the RouteScience PathControl system providing automated real-time (sub-second), best path route adjustment to ensure that traffic is delivered to the best provider.
Total network utilization is carefully monitored to enable upgrades as required to allow provision of a 2-to-1 ratio of available bandwidth to peak bandwidth. The NOC has been designed to reduce physical stress and staff requirements by operating in "lights-out" mode. This is extremely important as it allows AIT to maximise resource usage and to provide an environment of increased efficiency and security.