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ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR BUILDING THE NET
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Blasting Data
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GlobalCenter is using fiber-optic technology
to boost its backbone to 2.5-Gbps speedsotra bandwith: 0-48 (2.5 Gps) nk between San ranisco and Los Angles,
‘wth four more OC-48 ins planed ty the end of 1986, Backbone rns a
15-3 (45 Mbps), 06-3 (15 Mops), o 0-12 (622 Mops) speeds elsovbure
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‘base replication, Helliger said.
“Database replication is something that
‘can sometimes take up a lot of a bandwidth,
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tency is constantly uctuating between 100
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“To address those concerns, Helliger said,
Frontier GlobalCenter is doubling its capacity
for peering both at public network access
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arrangements, which bypass the congestion of trafic to their networks rather than relying
‘the NAPs. Today the company privately peers on the conventional Internet model of using
with 34 other providers, and has plans to add the closest exit,” he sid
1G more private peers by the end of the year. _soaree MFBASTRUCTIRE
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