IP Transit / Bandwidth for Content Providers

Content Providers depend on the Internet.  It is common knowledge that the Internet was not designed to carry data in streams like voice or video but rather small individual packets. However, there are techniques that can be used to optimize the streaming experience for users.  PacketExchange Networks improves IP transit performance for content providers by interconnecting and peering with Tier 2 networks and broadband providers on the edge in multiple locations.  By peering with providers on the edge, PacketExchange ensures that its customers’ streaming traffic is more directly routed, reducing packet loss and latency. Additionally, this peering model ensures resiliency through multiple connections with each provider in many locations around the world.

With tens of millions of Internet nodes across the world, content packets traditionally need to travel across multiple networks in order to get to its destination, and the more nodes and networks that the data packets pass through the more likely packets will get dropped, lost or routed over a different path breaking up the sequence and affecting the information received at its end point.  PacketExchange’s network solves this problem through its effective deployment of ‘donut peering’ initiatives. 

PacketExchange Networks has focused its business model on creating more efficient peering connections among other Tier 2 providers in order to deliver content and streaming media more efficiently for and between its customers.   The company’s goal is to connect to as many networks as it can, in as many locations as possible, in order to bypass the Tier 1 network provides as often as possible, in order to deliver data to end-users more efficiently and effectively.

Features

• Access to multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 networks
• Ablility to connect directly to end-user networks by means of an aggressive peering policy, bypassing traditional IP backbones
• Unfettered by peering restrictions and network routing inflexibility, PacketExchange routes traffic based on performance, not cost or peering policy
• PacketExchange is interconnected to over 500 networks, representing over 90 countries ensuring access to customer’s is only 1 network hop away

Benefits

• Ensure 100% uptime for mission-critical applications
• Security and reliability through protected, dedicated infrastructure
• Ability to scale capacity on-demand
• The best Service Level Agreement in the industry

Next Steps

• Contact us to find out more about IP Transit.

Technical Information

Donut Peering