Our Network
At FaktorTel we are proud of our network.
Northern Hemisphere (Texas):
FaktorTel USA is run from The Planet data center in Texas and is hosted inside their award winning SAS 70 Type 2 Data Centers for maximum uptime of both the servers and the data / voice.
The Core Network
FaktorTel's Core network equipment consists of one of only a handful of Clustered Asterisk environments with Dual to Ternary protection on all equipment including routers, load balancing servers, database servers and voice.
All of FaktorTel's core equipment is supplied by DELL and runs the required server architectures for maximum uptime and availability. |
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The Voice Network
FaktorTel's voice network spans both the southern and Northern hemispheres using links from major carriers including Verizon and Bell along with Internationl carriers including Optus, AAPT and PowerTel. FaktorTel's voice network is designed as a "fail-safe" system, allowing calls to one or many carriers to interconnect in the even of failure, therefore making us a robust and reliable provider for calls around the US and the rest of the world.
The Staff:
FaktorTel has several network engineers monitoring, upgrading and maintaining our network equipment. There is no time night or day that the voice network becomes un-monitored or unavailable to our Tech's. Our tech's include contributors to the Asterisk Open Source project, software development staff for projects including vspPanel (www.vsppanel.com)
and admins with large scale network experience including previous projects with TabCorp, Citibank and the ASX.
The Quick Run-Down:
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| Owns equipment across the world: |
FaktorTel currently owns all of it's equipment from point to point throughout Australia, and has co-located equipment in the USA. |
| Data Center Redundancy: |
FaktorTel Currently uses the best of breed data centers in both the US and Australia for maximum uptime. |
| Data Redundancy: |
FaktorTel currently run BGP across 5 network providers for full data redundancy. |
| Voice Redundancy: |
FaktorTel currently run 6 voice carriers along with a major fiber interconnect to the PSTN for maximum voice redundancy. |
| Staff: |
FaktorTel has several Linux and Asterisk network specialists who's sole job is to look after and maintain equipment across the world, along with various technical support, sales and billing staff. |
The Pictures:
The following are a few pictures from our Core Network. These were taken as the core network was rebuilt in November 2007. Currently the core network has an internal data capacity of 144.1 Gbps, and runs a host of redundant Dell Servers, PSU's and Core equipment for VOIP Swithing. - For security reasons, we are not able to include pictures of our Data Center or associated equipment to the left or right of our core network.
Fig 1. - Core Rack - Rear wiring + Switch Facing
Fig 2. - Core Rack - Facing
Fig 3. - Core Rack Switching Capacity at 144.1 Gbps + Redundant PSU
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