Strong Network Is Draw to Luring Data Firms to Asheville
Published Mar 23, 2009
It’s not uncommon for a growing business to require high-speed Internet service when they’re deciding where to relocate. But a company that uses as much connectivity as 48,000 average households combined is not your average mom-and-pop.
Netriplex Corp., which provides Internet hosting services for everything from e-mail storage to online radio stations, located a data center in Asheville in summer 2006 and has since expanded it to 15,000 square feet.
The company’s decision was made in part because of the leg up the region’s existing broadband network gave them in reaching its requirement of 240 gigabits of connectivity.
“There was a lot more fiber here that was ready than different regions that we had looked at,” says Jonathan Hoppe, chief technology officer of Netriplex.
Even with Asheville’s strong existing broadband network, the company invested heavily in the infrastructure once it chose to locate in the region.
Netriplex needs to offer extreme levels of connectivity in order to stay competitive with hosting services in bigger cities.
“Our data center here, to our customers, looks as good as our centers in Atlanta and Boston,” Hoppe says. “That’s good because people want to put their information in a tier-two city because it’s safer, but it also needs to provide all the amenities of a major facility.”
Reliability of the infrastructure is as important as the level of connectivity because many companies use Netriplex’s service to store duplicates of their entire networks as back-ups.
The combination of high connectivity, geographic safety and utmost reliability makes Netriplex’s Asheville network competitive with that of any other network in the country.
“These large technology companies that rely on the Internet need not only connectivity, but it also needs to be very reliable and very redundant,” he says. “We have customers here that are moving tens of gigabits of traffic. So it’s pretty extensive.”
Story by Michaela Jackson
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