By using L A Bridge as your Internet provider you are supporting a company that is active in various causes. We are a for-profit company but we support many non-profit and politically charged organizations. We are a vegetarian/vegan owned company and we feel strongly about animal rights. We run a paperless office and many of our employees and contractors work from home which we think is step towards reducing exhaust emissions from cars. It's a small gesture but we try to do our part.

Using multiple upstream connections and "Asynchronus Routing" L A Bridge provides you with over 200 Mbits of full duplex connectivity to the Internet. Combining Cisco Catalyst switches and asynchronous routing we have almost eliminated collisions on our networks since there are rarely two packets heading in opposite directions. The result is particularly zippy performance when you visit Web pages and rapid file downloads. With one of our primary connections in Los Angeles we also have peering with Internet II (Internet 2). This can be illustrated with a quick traceroute from any internal L A Bridge connected machine to www.berkeley.edu. When you see "cenic.net" you know you're on Internet 2.

The following list outlines technical aspects of our system that you don't find with every ISP:

Reliability
- Nightly backups of all Web sites and e-mail
- Primary and secondary "mail spool" servers ensure that you never miss a message
- Direct fiber connections to the backbone eliminates phone company failures
- APC battery backup system provides you with access to our network even if the power grid is down

Virus and SPAM Quarentine
- Incoming mail that appears to be SPAM or Virus is held for you to review through web interface at Postini.
- Acceptable Use Policy Please don't hack, scan, spam or infringe through L A Bridge.

Web Servers
- Macintosh OS X xserve hosting machines
- Full PHP and Netcloak CGI support

Dial-up Access
- ISDN throughout California
- "Roaming" service allows you to dial in to L A Bridge from anywhere in the world (ask about "iPass")

Network
- 200 Megabit Fiber connection to MAE-LA (where backbones intersect in Los Angeles)
- Fully switched, star topology network

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