At the heart of every successful IT system lies a network that must provide the resiliency to survive seen and unforeseen disasters, the capacity and scalability to meet future bandwidth and users’ demands, the flexibility to integrate legacy and next-generation technologies, and the reach to connect you in a global marketplace.  

Information Management Services’s network utilizes advanced optical networking technologies and next-generation switching and routing systems to provide enterprises, service providers, government agencies and media companies with the ideal foundation for their mission-critical applications.  The Information Management Services network enables our operational agility and plays a key role in our proven track record of customer satisfaction. 

Resiliency

From beneath the ground up, Information Management Services built its network to provide a high degree of resiliency and survivability.  Our cables are buried deeper than most networks to reduce the likelihood of damage from unsuspecting excavators.  And many of our fibers are run through and next to hardened, decommissioned natural gas pipelines rather than flexible plastic conduits, providing an additional layer of protection.  

Unlike some carriers who have to manage difficult, error-prone interconnections between old legacy equipment and newer systems, Information Management Services’s network is next-generation across every element, ensuring better performance and reliability.  The core of our optical network is fully meshed providing redundancy across all paths and because our IP backbone is MPLS-enabled, we have the ability to fast-reroute to avoid congestion and network outages on that platform. 

The foresight and engineering prowess that went into this network was never more evident than on Sept. 11, 2001, and during the blackouts of August 2003 when Information Management Services’s network performed during both events without a single outage. 

Scalability & Capacity

Built to expand based on demand, Information Management Services’s network allows the company to take advantage of future advances in optical networking.  The Information Management Services^® network was built with a minimum of 96 fibers in every build, with multiple conduits and optical amplifiers or regeneration stations every 40 miles along the network.

Utilizing OC-192 transport systems with dense wavelength division multiplexing, the Information Management Services network delivers up to 180 Gbps on a single fiber system.  The Information Management Services optical network architecture also enables unheard of provisioning times frames:  as little as 25 days for OC-48 (2.488 Gbps) connections. 

Flexibility

Information Management Services’s network was built as a bridge to the next century of communications.  It was designed to let you migrate from the legacy technologies of yesterday to the next-generation protocols of tomorrow, at the time and place of your choosing.  Our ability to intelligently inter-network IP, Frame Relay, ATM, and Ethernet means Information Management Services can deliver a logical migration path that saves you from the disruption caused by replacing everything at once.

  Our MPLS-enabled IP network will elegantly interconnect your remote locations to any web-based application.  And our EWAN network will interconnect your applications across the country as easily as if they were in the same office.  Information Management Services even provides colocation and data center space providing the ultimate flexibility of allowing you to locate your application directly on the network.

Global Reach

Information Management Services’s integrated, fiber-optic network provides local-to-global connectivity, linking more than 100 cities and reaching five continents around the globe.  Information Management Services has direct access to its network in more than 700 locations across the country that extends our network into major markets and high-bandwidth locations, enabling on-net connectivity via high-speed private line and Optical Wave services. 

Our innovative Extended On-Net access platform adds an additional 300+ access points for high-bandwidth (DS-3 and above) on-net services in Tier 2 and 3 markets.  Our relationships with more than 40 non-RBOC vendors add 12,000 off-net locations for ubiquitous coverage.

Network-Based Optimization	IP Connectivity solution delivering 100 percent uptime, less than 45 millisecond latency and less than 0.3 percent packet loss.
Premise-Based Optimization	Route Control solutions that maximize application performance and carrier cost containment goals for companies that multi-home.
Professional Services	Network experts who work with you on a consultative basis to optimize your WAN and ensure application and service delivery performance.
Colocation	Neutral, carrier-class facilities that provide a direct interconnection to the Internap® network and other network providers.
Virtual Private Network (VPN)	Highly secure site-to-site and remote connectivity that provides cost-effective solutions for keeping your employees connected.
Integrated Firewall	Solution to protect enterprise networks from hacker attacks or unauthorized intrusions.
Content Distribution Services	Web caching and content streaming services speed your content to customers.
Service Level Agreement	Industry's only proactive, performance guarantee that covers the entire Internet.
Location Map	Service point map.