The Catalyst2 Network

Our network

Like everything a product is nothing without a solid base to build upon. Our network is the foundation of our offering and has been built to ensure your website / emails / applications are always available.

Our network was designed to be completely redundant from the ground up, every element of our core network is duplicated, we don't just deploy one switch/router/firewall, we deploy two, why run one cable to each server cabinet when you can run two....you get the idea! We even go so far as to use different router vendors to help prevent software issues affecting traffic, Cisco and Juniper.

Together this helps ensure even if hardware fails, we have a spare ready to automatically take over, or right beside it to be plugged in, meaning no or minimal impact on your service.

All hosted servers are protected by a pair of Fortigate firewalls including intrusion protection, which helps prevent common application attacks such as SQL injection and XSS, these are updated every few hours with the latest attack data to help keep one step ahead.

Catalyst2 are also full members of RIPE (meaning we can assign IP addresses in your company name, and have completely control over the IPs we use) and LINX (letting us connect directly to large ISP's such as Virgin Media, Demon, Zen and many other UK and EU providers), in addition we have direct connections to two of the top (in our opinion!) transit providers around, NTT and Tiscali. Again should any provider fail, your service won't be affected as traffic is simply rerouted over the other. We are also fully ipv6 ready, and have been since 2006!

Every element of our network is monitored, supported (by the likes of Cisco,Juniper and Fortinet) and logged 24x7, should an event occur which requires further investigation an on call engineer is paged and working on the issue within minutes, before a small problem impacts your business. And as always, if you need assistance day or night our friendly team is on the end of our freephone.