Real geographic redundancy
Barcelona and L'Hospitalet are separate municipalities interconnected at backbone level. Taking both down at once needs an extraordinary-scale incident — and even then the RTO target is < 2 seconds.
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Active-active platform · two Catalan DCs
Your traffic, clean and duplicated
Our Cloud Router runs simultaneously in two Catalan datacenters — Equinix BA1 in Barcelona and Templus in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat — interconnected by a private dark-fibre ring with multiple 100 GbE circuits. DDoS protection, firewall, IPS/IDS and DNS filtering included, always active on both sides.
Why it matters
Three benefits of running two active DCs
Not a corporate postcard. A real architecture.
Clean traffic from origin
The Cloud Router filters DDoS, applies firewall, runs IPS/IDS and blocks malicious domains before traffic reaches your office. Your contracted Gbps is useful Gbps.
Guaranteed low latency
The two DCs are a few km apart, in the same metropolitan area. Replication between them is sub-millisecond; no Internet route hops through the US to filter your traffic.
Infrastructure figures
Four numbers that define the platform
2 DCsBarcelona + L'Hospitalet
Tier IV + IIIUptime Institute certification
N × 100GDark-fibre ring
100%Renewable energy
How it works
Four parts, one single platform
From your office to Olivet's private cloud, with no blind spots.
A · Cloud Router
Four security engines in one place
The Cloud Router is a platform managed by Olivet Telecom that processes all customer traffic before it reaches the office. Designed so you don't need to buy or maintain any security appliance on your rack.
- DDoS protection — volumetric and application-layer (L3-L7)
- Stateful firewall with per-customer rules · IPv4 and IPv6
- IPS/IDS with DPI · signatures updated 24/7
- DNS filtering against phishing and malicious domains
- Customer portal with real-time metrics and logs
B · Dual datacenter in Catalonia
Equinix BA1 and Templus · apart, but siblings
The platform lives in two physically separated datacenters inside the Barcelona metropolitan area. This isn't backup redundancy: both DCs are live at the same time and share traffic in real time. If one goes down, the other absorbs the full load without dropping sessions or losing packets.
Primary DC
Equinix BA1 · Barcelona
- Certification
- Tier IV · Uptime Inst. M&O
- ISO
- 9001 · 14001 · 27001 · 50001
- Floor space
- ≈ 1,475 m²
- Power
- 2.08 MW · up to 8 kW/rack
- Energy
- 100% renewable
- Role
- EU ↔ MENA interconnection point
Secondary DC
Templus · L'Hospitalet
- Certification
- Tier III
- ISO
- 27001
- Floor space
- ≈ 700 m²
- Power
- 1.70 MW · UPS 2N · gen. 2N
- Energy
- 100% renewable
- Role
- Twin DC, live sessions
C · Private dark-fibre ring
Multiple 100G between DCs · two physical paths
We don't trust public networks for DC interconnect. Between BA1 and Templus we run our own dark-fibre ring: two optical paths physically apart that loop around Barcelona, so a single roadworks or a cable cut cannot take both out at once.
On top of that ring we run multiple 100 GbE circuits in LAG with ERPS G.8032 protection. Latency between the two DCs is sub-millisecond, enabling synchronous replication of the Cloud Router control plane and a practical RPO ≈ 0.
- Dark fibre operated by Olivet · not shared
- Two physical paths with distinct routing
- LAG 100G × N · scalable on demand
- Sub-millisecond latency between DCs
D · Active-active and failover
Both DCs are working, always
An active-active setup is more robust than a primary-secondary pair: both DCs already carry real traffic every second. There's no "wait for the test" to know whether the backup works — if one stops responding, the Cloud Router's BGP and routing protocols drop the affected sessions and reopen them on the other DC.
- RPO ≈ 0 · synchronous control-plane replication
- RTO < 2 s · automatic redirection without human intervention
- Public IPs announced from both DCs (anycast)
- Monthly planned failover drill with zero customer impact
Uptime target 99.999% — at most ≈ 5 min 16 s of accumulated downtime per year.
Comparison
Traditional operator vs. Olivet Cloud Router
What a redundant in-Catalonia platform changes.
| Characteristic | Traditional operator | Olivet · dual DC |
|---|---|---|
| Points of presence | 1 DC or generic cloud | ✓ 2 DCs in Catalonia |
| Certification | Variable | ✓ Tier IV + Tier III |
| Interconnect | Public Internet | ✓ Private dark fibre |
| Inter-DC capacity | Best effort | ✓ Multiple dedicated 100 GbE |
| Operating mode | Active-passive | ✓ Active-active |
| RPO | Minutes | ✓ ≈ 0 |
| RTO | Minutes / hours | ✓ < 2 s |
| Data location | Often outside the EU | ✓ Always in Catalonia |
| Energy | Generic mix | ✓ 100% renewable |
Frequently asked
Technical questions
What does 'Cloud Router' mean?
A managed platform in our private cloud that processes all customer traffic: DDoS, stateful firewall, IPS/IDS with DPI and DNS filtering. No appliance to buy or maintain on your rack.
Why two datacenters?
To ensure the Cloud Router is never a single point of failure. It runs simultaneously at Equinix BA1 and Templus. If one falls, the other is already carrying its share of the traffic and absorbs the rest without interruption.
What is the dark-fibre ring between both DCs?
A private optical network operated by Olivet Telecom between BA1 and Templus, with two distinct physical paths. Multiple 100 GbE circuits run on top for data, control and inter-DC replication.
What's the difference between Tier IV and Tier III?
Tier IV (BA1) is the Uptime Institute's highest level, fault-tolerant with 2N+1 systems. Tier III (Templus) enables concurrent maintenance with 2N redundancy on UPS and generators. Both run on 100% renewable energy.
Does traffic ever leave Catalonia?
Internal processing (firewall, DDoS, IPS) always happens inside the Catalan perimeter. Global Internet egress uses nearby IXPs to keep latency low.
Can I see which DC is serving my traffic?
Yes. The customer portal exposes real-time metrics: bandwidth per DC, session state, security events and failover history. The 24/7 NOC gets the same data.
Get it
Want all your traffic clean and duplicated in Catalonia?
Every Olivet Telecom connection ships with the Cloud Router active on both DCs, at no extra cost and with no per-endpoint licensing. No lock-in, no small print.