Redundant Lumen and Cogent upstreams, Cisco routers, and an Arista switch fabric in Boise, Idaho. We control which carriers deliver your bandwidth — so we choose for performance, not politics.
Test it yourself at lg.as36824.net →The transit provider is often called the "uplink" or "ISP" for a business. These providers try to establish direct connectivity to as many end users as possible to minimize latency between content and the people who want it.
A Tier-1 network establishes peering agreements for free — no payment required. A Tier-2 network pays for those connections. Traditionally, Tier-1 was the gold standard.
Once a Tier-1 carrier reaches a certain scale, business priorities take over. If it's more profitable to leave a saturated interconnect link congested than to invest in capacity upgrades, they will. The downstream users suffer. The carrier doesn't care — they've already established the peering relationship.
ADTAQ selects carriers based on measured performance — latency, throughput, and reliability — not by whether they're technically a Tier-1. We're not loyal to a brand. We're loyal to the benchmark.
Today that means two upstreams: Lumen (AS3356) and Cogent (AS174). Lose one, and traffic keeps flowing over the other.
Edge routing is Cisco. Switching is an Arista fabric. Every hypervisor is bonded across two switches, so a switch failure doesn't take your VPS offline.
Sounds like the network you want? Here's where to start.