Fast and redundant IP connectivity.

High-Speed Network Infrastructure:
Multi-Carrier Connectivity & Redundant Layouts

Cost-effective Connectivity, Redundancy and always low Latency

IT equipment of a customer is located at one of our carefully selected high end facilities. Each IT system is connected simultaneously to all upstreams connected to our IP backbone. This way, Mainlab provides fully redundant connectivity and IP transit services by operating own high availability networks to multiple leading German and European carrier networks and to significant exchange and peering points. The high bandwidth of all connections - up to 10 Gbps on a single line - ensures a low latency even in peak hours and guarantees high-speed local and global connectivity.

All IT Equipment is connected to the entire Backbone

IT systems of our customers are connected to the entire Frankfurt city ring. The fully redundant layout enables connectivity even in events, where single lines or upstreams are interrupted. The outline of the Mainlab-IP-Backbone in Frankfurt and Amsterdam including the bandwidth of each upstream is as follows:

High Bandwidth and no over-subscription even during peak hours,
Powerful Hardware in redudant layout

Our IP Backbone is ideally suited for bandwidth capacities of up to 10 gigabit ethernet. Broadband connections to single carrier networks. The bandwidth of up to 10 Gbps on a single line ensures low latencies even in peak hours.

The gigabit backbone is operated at all locations by powerful routers of the manufacturers Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks and Juniper Networks. All routers and switches are at least of redundant layout and ensure a smooth network operation at all times. In addition, routers - identical in construction - are ready hot- or cold-stand-by equipment.

Advantages of direct link between Frankfurt-Amsterdam,
High availability across locations

By opertaing the dedicated Gigabit-link between Amsterdam and Frankfurt (Layer 2), servers located in Amsterdam are directly connected to the upstreams and peerings in Frankfurt, such as the DE-CIX or the network of Deutsche Telekom. Customers in Amsterdam are therefore not only connected to local Dutch upstreams, they profit immediately of this direct link especially with high data transfer to and from Germany.

Increased Data Security: Dedicated VLAN and Subnetting

If required, customers with 20 or more units will be allocated a dedicated VLAN. This way, data traffic will be separated from the remaining network. Thus, subnetting is enabled, protecting against Man-in-the-Middle-attacks and ARP-Spoofing (LAYER2-protection). By routing VLANs individually per customer, we achieve LAYER3-Protection. For critical applications and sensitive data, such a feature is a knock-out criterion. Mainlab is one of only few providers who completely implemented this technique within the own network.