Internet Solutions is South Africa's largest corporate bandwidth and internet access provider. Red Banner provides Internet Access products in South Africa through the Internet Solutions backbone
Telkom SAIX is a wholesale provider of raw connectivity to the Internet for Southern African Internet Service Providers. Telkom's South African Internet eXchange (SAIX) plays a central role in the provision of Internet connectivity and provide access to more than two thirds of South Africa's Internet Service Providers. Thanks to SAIX PoP agreement with Internet Solutions who in turn has an agreement with Red Banner, we access to the largest POP points in South Africa incorporating Layer 1 and 2 of the OSI stack (Diginet, Martis, ATM and switching infrastructure). This partnership with SAIX/Internet Solutions enables Red Banner to offer the most robust and dependable Internet Access Service in South Africa.
All Red Banner servers use Intel Server Motherboards and the latest Intel Processors for fast and reliable performance.
Red Banner's technical support in our San Francisco data center is qualified as a Microsoft Certified Partner. We offer a wide range of Microsoft technology solutions on dedicated servers, including Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 Web and Standard Editions, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and more.
Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Red Banner's data centre uses Cisco routers and switches to deliver the performance and scalability that our rigorous network environment demands.
SonicWALL, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures comprehensive Internet security solutions that are used by companies of all sizes to both protect their networks and provide secure remote access connectivity. Our San Francisco data centre is a Silver Medallion Partner and Red Banner offers SonicWall Firewalls on all dedicated servers.
The Ensim WEBppliance control panel is available as an option on all Red Banner dedicated servers. WEBppliance facilitates the configuration and management of both Windows and Linux servers.
All Red Banner dedicated servers include the Plesk 6 control panel. This software simplifies the configuration and management of UNIX-and Linux-based web servers. The browser-based interface allows administrators and their clients to access server DNS, Mail, FTP and web hosting services from anywhere in the world 24/7.
CPanel is a fully-featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you. You have the ability to manage all aspects of email, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics.
Acorn Computer, Inc. has been building high-end servers and PCs since 1992. Red Banner's San Francisco data centre uses Acorn's engineering expertise and custom design and testing services to deliver strong, reliable server architectures that are also easy to upgrade.
Berk-Tek is the leading manufacturer of high-performance copper and fiber optic cable in North America. Red Banner data centre in San Francisco's cable plant is fully Certified to TIA/EIA 568A Standards for 25 years under Berk-Tek's NETCLEAR program and carries a guaranteed a minimum BER of 10 (-10). This copper cable plant is Certified to support Gigabit Ethernet and our Fiber Plant uses Berk-Tek's 10 Gigabit ready Laser Optimized Fiber Optic cable.
Red Hat is the largest and most recognized provider of open source technology. Red Hat Linux is the most popular operating system installed on Red Banner dedicated servers.
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, and security features.
Red Banner dedicated servers running Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server provide a familiar interface for many people, as well as strong integration with Microsoft applications such as SQL Server 2000, FrontPage extensions and the new Dot.Net architecture.
Debian is an increasingly popular linux distribution that uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project.
