Through our carrier/transit partners ColoCrossing’s Buffalo datacenter is now directly peered with many of Canada’s largest internet service providers. This private link allows for very high speed, low latency, communication between the ColoCrossing datacenter and Canadians on the Rogers, Cogeco, TekkSavvy and Videotron networks. Instead of traffic traversing the common internet and traveling long distances it now goes directly from the ISP to TORIX (the Toronto Internet Exchange) and then right to the ColoCrossing Buffalo datacenter — increasing speeds and reducing latency by more than 70% on average!
For example, this particular Canadian customer previously “pinged” (the time it takes for a round trip from source to destination on the internet) 35 msec from his home office to the Buffalo datacenter. Now that our direct connection is active, the latency has been reduced to only 6 msec!
traceroute from Buffalo Datacenter to 24.226.5.221, 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 10.8.6.89 0.848 ms 1.371 ms 1.335 ms
2 10.8.17.209 0.604 ms 0.668 ms 0.642 ms
3 10.8.43.1 0.198 ms 0.172 ms 0.159 ms
4 10.8.25.141 58.812 ms 10.8.25.197 0.221 ms 10.8.25.141 58.726 ms
5 78.152.61.30 0.642 ms 78.152.57.86 0.587 ms 0.706 ms
6 eth3-1.edge1.tor1.ca.as5580.net (78.152.45.219) 9.311 ms 13.639 ms 9.268 ms
7 cogeco.ip4.torontointernetxchange.net (206.108.34.27) 4.332 ms 4.308 ms 3.448 ms
8 129-6-226-24.rev.cgocable.net (24.226.6.129) 6.520 ms 6.477 ms 6.448 ms
