XO Internet Service Overview

Simplicity and ease of use with a huge potential for growth – that’s the basic premise of XO’s direct Internet access service. This belies just how powerful a tool this is for entrepreneurs, however, XO was designed to be more than just a service for just any business. The key factor in XO DIA is its growth potential. By maintaining a service that’s dependable and efficient without having to be too complex, they have managed to create a fast Internet solution that offers a service that doesn’t just stop with what it can provide you, but will instead grow with you throughout the years.

In all truth, the most important problem many start-up businesses face is creating a network of trusted allies. XO gives you the opportunity to form a bond early on in the game by giving your budding business the chance to experience an Internet service that can be tailored to suit your current needs, while still being able to adjust to the growth of your company in terms of the service they provide and the complexity of your network connection.

A reliable service with a solid backbone

Think of your network as a body. All the branches netting out throughout the various mini-networks all over the country are like nerves leading back to one central nervous server which is the network backbone. The stronger your backbone, the better data pulses throughout the network of nerves, and the better your Internet service is.

That’s the best thing about XO DIA – the backbone is a multi-10Gbps Tier-1 IP network. This state-of-the-art system is capable of connecting to and around large peering points throughout metropolitan areas. This connection of the XO network to virtually every other Internet provider throughout the country gives you an entire network service to utilize at the click of a button. One of the most impressive features of the XO backbone is that it is in full compliance with the nationwide IP network design, which set up redundancy routes throughout the networks.

What does this mean? A redundant system gives you a system of lines that your network can pass through. This is a big boost to businesses that deal with high-bandwidth Internet operations like voice and video conferencing, and network hosting. Should your own unique connection fail at any point throughout the network, the flow of data is rerouted through another one of the free lines connected to yours, ensuring that the flow of data from your end to the Internet is not lost.

Customize as you grow

XO understands that not all businesses need – or can immediately afford – network connections that deal with bandwidth levels that you’d expect from a T3 connection. With XO, you are given the option of setting up just how fast you’d like your initial network connection.

But just because you started out with a simple T1 connection doesn’t mean you have to stick to that connection. While your business grows, XO provides you with options to match the requirements of your network connection to the requirements of your Internet activity. It’s this scalable option that makes XO such an attractive option for startup businesses.

Features & Benefits

• High-speed access to the Internet, intranet and extranet sites
• Guaranteed bandwidth to meet heavy data demands
• Performance of the award-winning XO OC-192 Internet network backbone
• Reliability backed by industry-leading service level guarantees, including 100% availability SLA
• Network design that maximizes redundancy with no single IP point of failure
• 24×7 live support with world class customer care and continuous network monitoring
• Includes pre-configured router, DNS registration and IP number allocation
• Web Basics hosting package with email addresses, junk mail and virus filtering
• Web Basics create a web site, use email, manage DNS, or get email protection if you own your own mail server

Optional features include:

• Expanded CPE options and managed router options
• BGP Routing Protocol: improves efficiency and quality of end user access and allows for faster, more efficient network traffic

Network Address Translation (NAT): Allows for the conservation of scarce IP addresses. Any enterprise can connect to the XO network and communicate with others by leveraging NAT to perform the translation of the private enterprise internal network address to the publicly recognizable Internet address