New upgrades to provide reliability, scalability and consistent experience for its customers.

The Planet, a privately held dedicated hosting company, today announced improvements to its enterprise-class network. The company claims that these new upgrades consolidate Houston and Dallas networks into a single global network, which provides reliability, scalability and consistent experience for the company's customers. It avers that it also provides a common network policy across the company's data centers in the two cities.

The company says that in preparation for next-generation technologies, its network is now IPv6-ready and is running MPLS for traffic engineering and management, as well as IP services.

"In survey-after-survey, customers tell us they choose The Planet based on the quality and reliability of our network and data centers,'' said Will Charnock, the company's vice president of technology. ''Both comprise the central nervous system operations for our customers, who rely on us to operate their mission-critical IT infrastructures around the clock. During the past two years, we've performed significant upgrades to deliver even better quality network capabilities. As we prepare for future technologies that will be important to our customers, these upgrades represent strategic investments that provide them with access to the highest-quality network in our industry.''