Multidata has interconnected the whole country to the submarine cables Arcos and Maya 1, through its SDH network, and at the same time to its internet backbone at an actual speed of 465Mbps (3 STM-1), this makes us the internet provider with the greater bandwidth connected to the world’s internet backbone, directly from Honduras.

It is important to also mention that we have already hired an additional capacity of internet connection of 90 Mbps, which are available since July 2008 and are implemented through the submarine cable ARCOS. This comes to assure our intentions of a constant improvement of Honduras internet connection, as well as our commitment of constantly improving the services we give our clients.

Altogether the two physical routes of internet connection to the United States of North America, and more than 4 diferent logic routes, we have implemented the BGP-4 protocol, through which, Multidata’s internet network can manage with great intelligence these routes redundancies, in junction with traffic balance, allowing that in any moment that a failure occurs of any of the two cables, the traffic will be directed to the other active route.

At the present we have chosen three different Internet Connection providers in the USA, these are: Sprint, which provides the connection through the submarine cables MAYA-1 and ARCOS and connects us to its “tear one” network in the NAP of the Americas, where Multidata already has presence, in said NAP, and the second provider is Columbus/ New World Network, which is the proprietor of the submarine cable ARCOS, and connects us with more than eight internet providers in the NAP of the Americas, through its cable Haed in North Miami and UUNET/ Verizon which provides us their services through the submarine cable MAYA-1 and connects us directly to their network through their Orlando, FLA node.

MULTIDATA, has had the constant preoccupation to offer internet service with the best quality possible, it is so that its international interconnections, and its national networks in Honduras, have been designed with the ideals of more than one interconnection route and automatic balance. And so it is easy to observe in the next diagram the redundant routes that have been created. This allows us to provide an internet service in a similar quality than our data services.

Puerto Cortes is said to be the gateway of all international services to Honduras, being that it is the place where the two submarine cables arrive, we have installed two SDH technology equipment inside the two heads of these cables, with the purpose to establish a ring of automatic redundancy, with our port city node. Starting at our node in PCO, we have two active fiber optics routes and one in microwave, all of this property of Multidata. These routes purpose is to transport with a high level of reliability the international connection services to San Pedro Sula, which has the Border Router in Honduras (the other border router is located at the NAP of the Americas in Miami, Fl), through this border router all the internet services are distributed to the whole country.

To analyze and comprehend furthermore about the reliability of our internet services, we can show the connections and their distribution in the major cities, the diagram below shows the service distribution in SPS:

And in the next figure: TGU Internet Network, is the network in charge o the distribution of the internet service to the south central region. The service quality to the south central region is guaranteed through the interconnection of the Core Router in SPS with the core router in Tegucigalpa. This interconnection is also accomplished through three different routes, two fiber optics (one grounded, the other aerial) and one microwave. Once again an effort is made to guarantee the quality of the service that is offered all around the country.

At the moment we are in an expansion process, we are expanding our routes, the national and the international, with the purpose of guaranteeing latency times. In all the figures shown before it is clear that the local networks, as in the intercity and the international networks, the availability is highly taken into consideration, to assign to each node, at least two connection routes, and easily accomplished even four routes, by possessing the routing equipment through the SDH network with the local interconnection in each node.

To summarize, in Multidata we are concerned with:

a)      Having connection to the internet in USA, through the largest providers of internet in the world

b)      The availability is very important, taking into consideration how the international connections are designed through the two submarine cables that arrive in Honduras, and also, by guaranteeing capacities with different providers in case a failure occurs with the USA connection.

c)      Redundant routes are also created for intercity and local networks

d)     Latency is also highly considerate, by having plans of expansion at the right time, with the goal to guarantee that our routes won’t get saturated, the same as we guarantee the quality of our interconnections.