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Network 
Server
Reliability Speed
Our server facilities are connected to their own high speed national Internet backbone. For reliability and speed these connections are over redundant OC3s (155 Mbps) lines. For added assurance a DS3 (45 Mbps) with Sprint is maintained.
Our servers consist of 400 MHz Pentium II using Unix operating system. The data is protected with triple backup - with a mirror image on secondary drive, with compressed data archive, and with digital tape archive. Each server is connected to Cisco 5500 switch via dedicated, full-duplex DEC 10/100 Mbps Ethernet.
Power requirements are protected with a backup UPS with 1 hour battery, backed up by a 250kW diesel generator with 36 hours of fuel.
All security programs and patches are kept up to date and servers are monitored by a custom Hacking Alert System (HAS) which immediately pages systems administrators when a possible problem is detected.
Servers are controlled by on-site facilities managers who perform the necessary installations, replacements, and monitoring of hardware with access to technical support that have remote monitoring and control capabilities.