Faster DNS Response Time in European Union

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Posted by plumsauce, 01-26-2011, 10:23 PM
For Immediate Release

Faster DNS Response Time in European Union

Managed DNS service provider edgedirector.com announced today
the addition of a service point of presence in Amsterdam.
European users will notice a dramatic improvement in response
times.

The previous minimum response time was 100 milliseconds. The
response time will now be as low as 1 millisecond for the closest
locations.

Placement of the new edgedirector facility was carefully
selected with a view to reachability of all major carrier
networks in Europe.

The new facility will also form one of the network test points
that the edgedirector service uses to monitor the health of
client servers for its distributed failover service.

The addition of another test point in the parallel testing
network provides even greater reliablility in assessing server
health.

A recent third party survey of network round trip response time
showed the following timings for a number of European centers:

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Amsterdam 1.0 Groningen 5.3 Antwerp 13.1 Munich 15.5 Cologne 9.2 Stockholm 36.3 Copenhagen 13.4 Oslo 21.4 Dublin 18.4 Glasgow 19.0 London 8.5 Manchester 15.2 Madrid 31.8 Padova 29.3 Lille 12.8 Paris 14.9 Zurich 22.0 Moscow 46.5 Kharkov 77.1 Vilnius 35.2 Bucharest 39.0 Lisbon 50.2 Gdansk 27.3 Krakow 30.1 (all times in milliseconds)

The timing results are typical of the results obtained from
multiple tests on multiple days observed during the acceptance
testing period.

In addition to improving performance, the new facility adds
further redundancy, diversity and capacity to the edgedirector
network.

As is the case for all edgedirector facilities, the Amsterdam
pop was subjected to extended acceptance testing prior to
production release.

About edgedirector.com

edgedirector.com provides advanced managed dns services
with global load balancing and distributed server failover
capabilities used by clients to create highly available
and scalable internet services.

http://edgedirector.com

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source:
http://edgedirector.com/txt/2011-01.txt

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