General information

The servers of our company are located in Bern, Switzerland on high-speed channels The Sunrise network used has an overall capacity of to 9 Gbit / s. The resources of our servers are well in advance of potential needs. We maintain multiple mirror copies of the data to avoid any data loss. At construction of the data center great emphasis was placed on security with emergency power and battery backup. Our center is physically protected from unauthorized access with steel doors, secure locks and personalized magnetic cards.

The technical platform:

• Our technological platform is enhanced with multiple protections to maintain continual availability of your information resources.
• Connection to a basic network, with data transmission speeds of up to 9 G/s.
• Reservation of channels in more than 500 peering networks around the world by means of the direct allocated protected lines.
• Backup power supplies from independent channels of electric power transfer. 2 separate independent backup power systems provides functioning of the center in the event of power loss
• The forced ventilation system provides a constant environment.
• Access to the Friendlyhosting servers is only possible with special magnetic cards.

High speed Internet connection:

A fast connection to the Internet is provided by the advanced infrastructure of the Swiss Sunrise network. Sunrise consist of an information ring in Switzerland, connected directly with a data highway in New York. Direct connection is also available with the most important traffic exchanges. It is provided with the direct allocated communication lines to more than 500 basic suppliers of the Internet all over the world. Overall throughput of the Sunrise network is evolving constantly and the connection speed with other external networks is also steadily improved.

The network also supports fast and redundant direct connections to the leading global providers, enabling us to guarantee maximum performance and optimum, around the clock, Internet connectivity.

sunrise internet backbone facts & figures

Network capacities

Network parameters for sunrise Internet backbone (guidelines)

Presence on Internet exchange points and peerings

Sunrise has its own routers at all Internet exchange points, which are connected to the Swiss ring via dedicated lines.

Failure-safe equipment

The Friendlyhosting servers are under the constant supervision of a service monitoring system.

Servers used

The servers used have been rigorously tested by our system engineers for potential and a possessing long-term experience in this sphere. At present we use only qualitative a servers on the basis of Dual Xeon processors allowing an optimal service quality and information processing speed.

Technical support

Dual support teams in Switzerland and in the USA allow 24 h support, 7 day a week.