LeaseWeb Adds 7 Internet Exchanges to European Network

Posted by Webhost - 01/07/09 at 08:07 pm

Hosting provider LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com), is adding seven new Internet exchange points in Europe to this worldwide hosting network, improving LeaseWeb’s routing of Internet traffic within its European hosting network by exchanging Internet traffic with other providers via peering instead of having to purchase transit traffic from telecom carriers.

According to a Wednesday announcement from LeaseWeb, which currently a bandwidth capacity of 750 Gbps in its network, LeaseWeb will provide connections with Internet exchanges in Milan, Copenhagen, Oslo, Paris, Budapest, Bratislava and Bucharest, bringing its hosting network to a total of 18 Internet exchanges.

“The additional peering capabilities will allow us to create more Internet routes in our European hosting network, which will benefit network redundancy and uptime,” LeaseWeb managing director Con Zwinkels said in a statement. “Our uptime is 99.999 percent. By increasing the number of Internet exchanges, among other things, we will be able to sustain this high uptime rate.”

At each Internet exchange site, LeaseWeb installed high-quality Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) routers to ensure high uptime and a minimize the risk of parts failure.

The network expansion follows a significant increase in the amount of Internet traffic handled by LeaseWeb’s hosting network. Over the past six months, client bandwidth demand has increased from 250 Gigabits per second to 375, and total network bandwidth capacity has increased from 500 Gbps to 750 Gbps. The purpose of this considerable capacity headroom is to assure clients that they can expand their web environment very rapidly if necessary.

LeaseWeb’s investment in Internet exchanges will reduce its transit traffic costs, which it will pass onto customers. “Peering will keep our Internet traffic affordable,” Zwinkels said. “This will allow us to continue to guarantee LeaseWeb’s competitive price-quality ratio since it will reduce the amount of bandwidth we have to purchase from telecom carriers.”

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