OVH.com, a hosting provider, has selected Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series routing platform.
Cisco, as per the networking deal, will support the expansion of its Internet Protocol (IP) network providing greater capacity and scope for innovation in cloud and hosted services
The strategic networking deal will enable the world’s third largest hosting provider to offer better quality of service to its around 700,000 customers. The hosting major has around 150,000 physical servers and 500,000 virtual machines.
“By leveraging our own data center technology for our servers and our IP network from Cisco, we’re able to deliver a faster, lower latency solution for our customers while minimizing our power consumption and carbon footprint,” said Octave Klaba, C(E/T)O of OVH.com.
Its dedicated fiber optic network enables OVH.com to provide speeds of up to 2 Tbps in Europe and 8 Tbps in North America, crossing 33 global peering points.
The ASR 9922 was chosen in part because of its ability to properly manage different types of traffic — particularly critical for virtualized resources and rich media information containing video and audio, which is highly sensitive to any time delays caused by the network.
Sri Hosakote, vice president and general manager, High End Routing and Optical, Cisco, said: “We are passionate about enabling experiences to build better relationships, and our work with OVH.com is doing just that. Cloud hosting and the solutions that it enables play a central role in delivering on the promise of the next generation Internet.”