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IP Backbone



With NRTC's aggregate buying power, you have access to favorable pricing through our partnership with one of the premier Tier 1 carriers in the world today. The backbone delivers extraordinary capacity and reach, multi-tiered security, support for many applications and services and a global presence.

Additional IP backbone benefits include:

  • Bandwidths available from T-1 to Gigabit Ethernet
  • Service levels with network availability of at least 99.9 percent 
  • Default-free routing from the IP backbone to other ISPs via peering or customer connections 
  • Consistently low latency, supported by industry leading service level agreements 
  • Low packet loss, with a network-wide average of no more than 0.7 percent of total traffic 
  • Multi-layered security architecture and physical security for all backbone nodes 
  • Support for Virtual Private Networks, intranets and extranets, Web hosting, managed security services and much more 
  • Backbone routers paired for additional reliability to ensure that a path is always available out of backbone nodes
  • All routers deployed in a redundant configuration, with redundant power supplies and route switch processors
  • 24x7 network management  

Contact us to learn more about NRTC's IP backbone solutions.