Co-location

How needy are you? Everyone has different co-location needs. So Primeex and its partners offers a wide range of co-location facility options, from private data suites to rack space by the unit(U), with completely enclosed cages and full cabinet rentals in between. And Primeex's price, quality, uptime, security, and professional support sets it apart from the rest of the industry.

Co-Location Details

Primeex and its partners offer a telecommunications-class co-location facility in its two Dallas, Texas, locations. Its co-location customers are able to connect to each of their servers to the Internet via a single high speed Ethernet connection to a multi-homed OC3, OC12, and Gigabit backbone connections to maximize the efficiency of their servers' operations.

Co-location pricing has two components: (1) rack space in the secured co-location cabinet and (2) data transfer. This pricing structure requires customers to pay only for services they utilize via a metered and monitored automation system. If the customer wishes to keep costs at a fixed level, Primeex utilizes a packet and bandwidth shaper to place a cap on the amount of network throughput (incoming requests and outgoing data).

Bandwidth

As a co-location customer, you will be provisioned with full bandwidth over an unshared, 100 Mbps Ethernet connection (Fiber Connections available). Monthly billing for the service is based on a pre-contracted amount with overages billed in arrears. Three plans are available to match any customer’s needs.

95% Percentile

The 95th percentile method is the most common method of measurement. Our systems take a traffic sample poll every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and then calculates the level of traffic. The polls representing the 5% of the most traffic utilized are discarded and a remaining 95% are used to measure your sustained usage for the month. Billing is apportioned on the remaining 95th percentile of sustained traffic for a period of one month. This method is preferred by customers who have relatively few high usage periods above their normal traffic (less than 5%) during the month.

Average Billing

The Average billing method is the second most common method of measurement. Again, our systems take a traffic sample poll every two minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and then calculates the average sustained usage. Average billing is simply a calculated average of sustained usage over time during the course of one month. Customers who depend heavily on business hours with little or no traffic at night or weekends prefer the average billing method.

GB of Throughput

The last billing method is the Gigabyte method and is one of the original web measurements of throughput. In this method, our Cisco switches record all inbound and outbound traffic in a log file that occurs on your uplink port. We add all this traffic together to gather the Gigabytes of throughput actually utilized for the month. This is commonly used for customers who bill their smaller customers in GB measurements or for customers that utilize less than 1MB of sustained usage over the course of one month. This method differs from 95% Percentile and Average Billing because it is an actual tracking of all traffic utilized during the month. The previous two methods are sustained usage models and work on averaging traffic over time.

Online Bandwidth Monitoring

All bandwidth measurements and co-location services come with an online web portal to allow the customer to watch their traffic real time. Our graphs are updated every five minutes and are available 24/7/365 with a secure log in. This allows customers to better track their bandwidth usage and to plan for upgrades and high usage times.

Rack Space

Pricing for rack space includes advanced security systems with remote access via card key, dual power grid connectivity, diesel generators and back-up power systems including UPS and Diesel generators, fire suppression, and redundant cooling systems. Primeex's co-location facilities have been designed to provide you with the highest level of performance, security, and reliability.

Rackspace is available by the rack unit, 1/3 cabinet, ½ cabinet, full cabinet, or multiple cabinet platform. Our cabinets are compatible with all server lines including, but not limited to, Compaq, IBM, HP, Dell, Sun, Cisco, Cobalt, etc..

Co-location customers of Primeex have a variety of solutions available to them when it comes to scalable Internet bandwidth. Since these customers have located their equipment directly in Primeex's partners managed facility, the time it takes to scale up from a 1MB connection to a full OC3 or larger is measured in "minutes" instead of "weeks," as would be the case if a customer acquired the extra bandwidth from a remote base of operations.

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