Reliability - Security - Scalability - Flexibility
Those four words are the mantra of the development team at BrowserLogic.
As a provider of out-sourced services, it is BrowserLogic's core
focus to build high performance, mission critical systems that deliver
on all four points. The demands of the Online research industry
are as diverse as the web itself. Whether you are executing research
against a panel, focus group, or developing a random click-stream
sample, the technology you use must be adaptable to the needs of
each situation. The engineers at BrowserLogic recognize this and
build systems that will answer your technology needs today and into
the future.
Software -
BrowserLogic's systems are built on a "distributed component"
architecture. This allows for the distinction between functionality
and it's implementation. What this means from an engineering perspective
is a great deal of flexibility to accommodate the Web's ever changing
technological landscape. The engineers at BrowserLogic are able
to make decisions about upgrade and maintenance without being
restricted by hardware and software platform concerns. BrowserLogic
utilizes the best technologies and standards available.
Connectivity -
BrowserLogic's systems run on a network that is distributed and
mirrored in several data centers across the United States. Our
redundant architecture ensures that any project or job you have
fielded using BrowserLogic technology will perform in the most
extreme cases. BrowserLogic applications utilize connectivity
on networks of the following capacities:
- Full-time connectivity between the server complex and a backbone/edge
router of no less than 100 Mbps
- Full-time connectivity between backbone/edge router and the
Internet of no less than OC-3. (155 Mbps)
- OC-3c/OC-12c Packet over SONET backbone
- All nodes utilize OC-48 SONET equipment, and are scalable
to OC-576
- All servers reside on 100Mbps LANs, moving to Gigabit Ethernet
Hardware -
BrowserLogic applications run on several Ultra Enterprise E450
servers with the following configuration at minimum:
- Processor: 4x 250 MHz UltraSPARC II CPU with 1.0 Mbyte UltraCache
- Memory: 4GB RAM
- Storage: 10 x 8.7GB disk drives in a redundant RAID configuration
- Network: Gigabyte Ethernet / Full Duplex Mode. Fast Ethernet
for backup, administration and mirroring
- Three power supply modules for redundancy
- Server software: Solaris
5.X, Apache
