New Canadian Online Gambling Data Centre
Published: Thursday, November 02, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
NEW CANADIAN ONLINE GAMBLING JURISDICTION TO OPEN DATA CENTRE IN DECEMBER
Construction on hi-tech facility underway
Quickly following an announcement earlier today (Wednesday) that it was launching a new online gambling jurisdiction, the Alexander First Nation from the Alberta province of Canada has revealed that it will open a new, state-of-the-art Data Centre in December this year for the convenience of licensees.
Alexander Internet Technologies has been formed to manage and staff the facility, and construction is underway on a high availability 25 000 square foot data centre, offering clients secure server co-location facilities enjoying uncapped bandwidth, wirespeed connectivity, 24x7x365 onsite support, and failsafe backup and redundancy through a strategic alliance with a sister site in Asia.
With an ultra-low latency of .04 seconds, the data centre is ideally suited to allow clients to service end customers in Asia and Europe. The new AIT facility, opening December, 2006, includes fully serviced office space (7,600 sq.ft.) available for clients, and management promises unsurpassed speed, security, and quality.
Alexander First Nation has established and empowered Alexander Internet Technologies (“AIT”) to facilitate the involvement of Alexander First Nation and its members in internet and technology industries.
Located 20 minutes from downtown Edmonton, Alberta, AIT offers the advantage of doing business in a major North American metropolitan market, in collaboration with a stable and progressive native community and its government – the Chief and Council of Alexander First Nation.
“This data center will allow international customers the comfort of securely running their operations with 100 percent uptime, while maintaining fail-safe global switchover capability as required,” said Cheryl Savoie, of Alexander Internet Technologies. “This offering is in response to market demand, and builds on Alexander First Nation’s significant investment in the technology.”
The AIT Data Centre Network is comprised entirely of carrier-class Network hardware, featuring redundancy at all layers. At the hardware layer multiple routers and switches are configured in parallel with dynamic routing and switching to ensure automated fail-over during hardware, software or link failure. The centre is located directly on multiple diverse fiber rings, and is redundantly connected to IP carriers by a minimum of two separate local providers. BGP4 is used in conjunction with the RouteScience PathControl system providing automated real-time (sub-second), best path route adjustment to ensure that traffic is delivered to the best provider.
Total network utilization is carefully monitored to enable upgrades as required to allow provision of a 2-to-1 ratio of available bandwidth to peak bandwidth. The NOC has been designed to reduce physical stress and staff requirements by operating in "lights-out" mode. This is extremely important as it allows AIT to maximise resource usage and to provide an environment of increased efficiency and security.
Other services on offer by AIT include:
* Backup and disaster recovery which are 100 percent maintained by professional backup administrators - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Clients are protected against risks associated with system changes, catastrophic server failure and other controlled or uncontrolled events.
* Global balancing services for online gaming applications between AIT and an Asian Partner or where current servers reside.
The Alexander First Nation, party to Treaty No. 6 with the Government of Canada in 1876, is located 20 minutes from downtown Edmonton. Covering 7280 hectares, with a population of 1 550 registered members, Alexander First Nation is a member of the First Nations of Alberta and Canada.
