Interxion & Cidera deliver pan-european solution to avoid congestion on World Wide Web
AMSTERDAM, 5th April 2000 - Interxion, a leading European neutral Internet Exchange Center™ company and Cidera, Inc. (formerly SkyCache, Inc.), the Internet Broadcast Backbone, today announced that they have signed an agreement that will increase the quality of service to Interxion's customers, including Internet Service Providers (ISPs), content providers and content aggregators, Application Service Providers (ASPs), and e-commerce providers using Interxion facilities across Europe.
Initial deployments will place Cidera's Usenet News and Cache Turbocharging services at the Interxion Internet Exchange Centers™ in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London and Paris, as well as in the Exchange Centers in Brussels, Copenhagen, Dusseldorf, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm, and Vienna, that will become operational within the next months.
The arrangement means that Interxion will provide economies of scale and reduce the required bandwidth for its customers to deliver a full range of Usenet News services and improve their cache performance. If a customer were to connect directly to the Usenet News service it would take four T1 lines to receive the more than 100 Gigabytes of data Cidera delivers each day.
This pan-European agreement is the largest co-location agreement to date for Cidera, and we are excited to work with Interxion as they expand our presence across Europe, said Cidera Chairman and founder Doug Humphrey.
Interxion's CEO Bart van den Dries said, Cidera has an unsurpassed reputation in the industry for speed and innovation and they provide us with a unique feature service that improves our value to our customers. We are totally driven by the need to offer our customers the best environment for their business, and see this as a critical strategic partnership in driving our business forward.
Cidera has built and operates an international satellite broadcast network to improve the movement of Internet information, including World Wide Web content, Usenet News, audio/video, streaming media, and web site replication. The company currently offers service in North America and Europe.
Cidera's Streaming Media Service will also be deployed at Interxion facilities later this year as part Interxion's increasing value-added service portfolio providing customers with the broadest range of managed connectivity solutions.