Giganews
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1998 in Austin, Texas |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | Usenet |
| Website | www.giganews.com |
Giganews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1998, Giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include RCN Corporation[1], BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications.
According to www.top1000.org[2], the combined weight of Giganews' servers makes Giganews the most peered Usenet server currently online.
Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix[3] in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, AMS-IX[4] and NL-IX[5] in The Netherlands, DE-CIX[6] in Frankfurt, Germany, and LINX[7][8] in London, United Kingdom. In late 2008, Giganews' bandwidth capacity at AMS-IX increased from 40Gb/s to 80Gb/s[9].
In the summer of 2005, Giganews provided open Usenet access to attendees of the What The Hack conference in The Netherlands[10].
Starting in early 2006, the Mozilla Foundation’s newsgroup hierarchy was sponsored by Giganews[11].
In late 2006, Giganews implemented SSL Encryption as an optional service feature for all customers[12].
Article retention in binary groups was claimed to be increased to 240 days in October 2008[13]. As of May 3, 2009 the actual retention length is 269 days.
Giganews is in the process of increasing its retention length to 365 days. [14]
There is a number of other usenet providers with the access to the same content and similarly increasing retention.
This wikipedia entry had been created / maintained by a Giganews staff member employed at the Giganews marketing department [1] [2].
[edit] References
- ^ RCN Forum FAQ - dslreports.com
- ^ top1000.org Filtered Statistics
- ^ Usenet Newsgroups Peering - Giganews
- ^ Details for Giganews, Inc.
- ^ http://www.nl-ix.net/members.php (October 2004)
- ^ Giganews Connects to DE-CIX, Opens Peering in Germany
- ^ Giganews Brings Network to UK through LINX
- ^ LINX Members (G)
- ^ Giganews Doubles Capacity at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)
- ^ What The Bust!
- ^ Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy
- ^ Encrypted Usenet Access Announced by Giganews
- ^ 240 Day Binary Retention Expansion is Complete!
- ^ Giganews Announces ‘365 Special’ and Commitment to 365 Days of Retention
[edit] External links
- top1000.org - The Official Usenet TOP1000 Servers Page
- http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html - Details for accessing the Mozilla Development Forums
