As hosting specialists, Rackspace® has built one of the most robust and reliable networks in the industry. Therefore by choosing Rackspace managed exchange as your messaging solution you gain access to the Rackspace Network. Rackspace guarantees 100% application uptime service level agreement, plus a fully redundant and clustered high availability infrastructure and Zero Downtime Network.
The Rackspace network has been engineered from the ground up to accommodate the high-availability demands of our customers' mission-critical Web applications. Our Cisco-powered, Zero-Downtime Network™ with unique self-healing attributes is based on multiple bandwidth providers and BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol) for best case routing. This ensures the data reaches the end user in the fastest, most efficient manner possible.
Rackspace provides a fully resilient and redundant network infrastructure eliminating any single point of failure. Our entirely switched network employs Cisco chassis based switches running HSRP (N+1 hot failover) to ensure that data can be routed even in the event of device or link failure.
Therefore Rackspace has the most reliable infrastructure behind its managed exchange platform, meaning customers benefit from maximum uptime for their messaging solution.