National Software Centre The National Software Centre is a flagship technology and data centre located in Cork, Ireland. It is the result of a public/private partnership between members of the software industry, local and national government and the European Union.

Data Centre Our hosting environment has dedicated UPS (20kVA) per room with alarms, 220v 32A clean earth power and cct breaker per rack, Dedicated 3ø power feed per room from 1MW ESB transformer on a dual feed from the National Grid, Raised load bearing floors, Air conditioning and CCTV camera monitoring with archival among its features. It has Limited Swipe Card access with tracking.
Current Internet connectivity has a capacity of 1-STM (155Mb/s over diverse routes) all optical to the international cable landing stations delivered as multiple 2Mb/s E1 ports over fiber with multiple Points of Presence (POP) to the Core IP network. Four carriers are connected over independent physical routes. Traffic is routed through BGP 4 (Border Gateway Protocol) � dual homed (ie. dual routers).
The National Software Centre is a POP on the Epsilon network enabling low cost data centre traffic between 35 European data centres for DR, Backup and replication (The 5 Irish nodes are NSC, Data Electronics/INEX, Interxion, Telecity, and Opera telecom). Diverse routing (separate physical path from the router) to a different access node of the core IP network for redundancy and resilience (in the event of outage on the fiber link). Network peering INEX (Irish Internet Exchange) in Dublin, LINX (London Internet Exchange), AMS-IX (Amsterdam), DE-CIX (Frankfurt) and Global Crossing/Hibernia Atlantic to New York (multiple STM-1�s).
Uptime Guarantee DB Alliance guarantees its customers network availability of 99.99%. Tested on various applications from live roulette Ireland to SaaS products. |
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