Solution

Measurement Systems' infrastructure consists of hundreds of devices co-located at actual office buildings in cities world-wide. At each building, we have one or more contracted, paid representatives on-hand to make physical changes.

At each facility, we provision a local Internet connection using whatever broadband technology is available to leaf-nodes/subscribers in that locale (Cable modem, xDSL, 802.11, 802.16e (WiMAX), Ethernet, fiber-to-the-home, et al) and that broadband connection is provisioned and paid-for locally. This gives us the ability to have local Internet connections (as subscriber/leaf-nodes) connected to our own dedicated hardware platform. Within each facility, the network configuration couldn’t be simpler or more attractive. Since our focus is leaf-node VPS, that’s exactly how the topology is laid out.

There is direct Ethernet wiring from the communication provider demarcation point directly into our virtualization device. If the communications provider requires an Ethernet switch, one is added in a way that does not impact the topology. Our hardware platform manages the security, remote monitoring, management and IP allocation, and exposes the agreed infrastructure to our clients. Subsequently our clients may provision and maintain their VPS environment using a variety of technologies dependent upon our client contract.