TORONTO—At 151 Front Street West, the Dell R660xs delivers dual Intel Xeon Silver 4510 processors with 24 cores and 48 threads running up to 4.1 GHz, backed by DDR5 ECC memory expandable to 1.5 TB and NVMe storage with hybrid upgrade options.
This enterprise server combines unmetered connectivity from 1 to 100 Gbps with low latency global reach, iDRAC9 remote management, and future proof hardware. It is supported by more than 20 years of reliability at Canada’s connectivity core.
What 100Gbps on demand means
A 100Gbps port is a port speed: the maximum rate at which a server or a rack sends and receives traffic through its connection, not a monthly allowance of data. Amanah publishes port speeds from 1Gbps to 100Gbps, with upgrades at 10Gbps, 25Gbps and 100Gbps, so a tenant can start on a smaller port and move up without changing building or provider.
On demand describes how the capacity is bought. A faster port is ordered rather than engineered as a custom project, and the published promise for Amanah IP transit is that it is live in 1 business day. The equipment sits in one building, 151 Front Street West in Toronto, where Amanah operates TOR1 in Suite 341 on the 3rd floor and TOR2 in Suite 616 on the 6th floor.
Bandwidth on Amanah colocation and dedicated server plans is unmetered on a dedicated port. Unmetered means the port is billed by its speed rather than by the volume of traffic that crosses it: there is no monthly transfer allowance and no per-gigabyte egress charge, and the port is not shared with other tenants and not soft-capped after a threshold.
Unmetered is not the same as infinite capacity, and three things sit outside it. A port never carries more than its line rate, so a 1Gbps unmetered port moves at most 1Gbps however long it runs. The move to a faster port is a separate order, not something the existing plan already contains. And standalone IP transit, bought on its own rather than with a colocation or server plan, is priced by port speed on its own published ladder.
Who needs a 100Gbps port
A 100Gbps port suits a workload whose outbound traffic stays high for hours at a time, not one that peaks for a few minutes and falls back. The deciding measure is sustained egress: when a service routinely pushes close to the full rate of a 10Gbps port through the working day, a faster port removes the ceiling, while a brief spike is better absorbed by headroom on the port already in place.
The traffic shapes that tend to justify the step up are recognisable from the network side. A platform that serves large files or long media streams to many simultaneous users, a network operator that aggregates traffic and hands it on to its own customers, and an organisation that replicates large datasets between sites on a fixed schedule all generate sustained outbound load rather than occasional bursts.
Most tenants do not need 100Gbps, and saying so is part of the answer. Most tenants are served by a 1Gbps or 10Gbps port, and the 25Gbps upgrade sits between the two larger steps for a workload that has outgrown 10Gbps without approaching 100Gbps. Because a port can be upgraded in place, the sensible order is to measure sustained egress on the current port before buying the next one.
What it costs
Amanah publishes IP transit at four prices by port speed: $500 a month for 1Gbps, $1,000 a month for 10Gbps, $3,000 a month for 40Gbps and $5,000 a month for 100Gbps. Each tier is unmetered at its port speed, and the published provisioning promise is live in 1 business day.
The transit ladder is a different purchase from a hosting plan, and comparing the two directly gives the wrong answer. Amanah colocation starts at $149 a month and Amanah dedicated servers start at $49 a month, and unmetered bandwidth is included on those plans, so connectivity for the rack or the server is part of the plan price rather than a separate transit bill.
The transit ladder applies when connectivity is bought as a service in its own right, for example by a network that brings its own equipment and wants a dedicated path to the internet. A buyer comparing a transit quote against a server quote should check which of the two the figure describes, because a $5,000 100Gbps transit port and a $49 dedicated server with unmetered bandwidth are priced for different jobs.
The port and transit arrangement
Amanah operates its own autonomous system, AS32489, registered with ARIN since 2004, and runs BGP multi-homing across five upstream carriers. Three of the five are named: Cogent (AS174), Zayo (AS6461) and NetActuate (AS36236). With several upstreams, the Border Gateway Protocol can choose among paths, and when one carrier withdraws a route, traffic moves to another, so it does not depend on a single provider’s network.
Addresses and peering
An Amanah transit port includes a /29 subnet with 5 usable IPv4 addresses, and up to a /24 is available for a network that needs more address space. Amanah also peers at TORIX, the Toronto Internet Exchange. Peering at an exchange lets traffic between two networks cross the exchange directly instead of travelling through a paid upstream, which reduces the number of networks a packet crosses on the way to a destination that is present there.
Inside 151 Front Street West
More than 400 networks are reachable inside 151 Front Street West, and cross-connects between them run through the meet-me rooms MMR1 to MMR3. A cross-connect in those rooms is a physical cable between two parties inside one building, not a metro circuit between two sites, so a tenant connecting to a carrier or a customer in the same building adds no metro distance and no intermediate network to the path.
The case for network quality here is architectural rather than numeric. Latency is set by the distance a packet travels and by how many networks it crosses on the way, and both are structural properties of where equipment sits: in a building with hundreds of reachable networks, on an exchange, behind an autonomous system with five upstreams. The alternatives are a metro circuit to another facility, which adds distance, or a single blended upstream, which leaves the choice of carriers to the reseller. A 100Gbps port in this arrangement is the same building, the same exchange and the same autonomous system, with more capacity on the port.