Tiscali International Network

Infobox Company
company_name = Tiscali International Network
company_
foundation = 1998
location = Utrech, Netherlands
key_people = Paolo Susnik CEO
industry = Telecommunication IP Transit
products = Internet transit ; Ethernet Line & Voice Termination

homepage = [http://www.tiscali.net/index.php?a=b&id=43 / www.Tiscali.net]
footnotes =

Tiscali International Network (TINet) is a telecommunications company that provides computer networking services worldwide. It boasts a large international IP backbone in Europe, USA, Canada and Asia and offers International Wholesale services - IP Transit, MPLS Pseudowires and Ethernet connectivity - to Carriers and Service Providers worldwide to wholesale customers such as broadband providers, Content Providers, Content Delivery Networks and regional carriers. The company is legally domiciled in Utrecht, The Netherlands, with its administrative headquarters in Cagliari, Italy.

International wholesale products offered under the “TINet” brand include:

- IP Transit, High quality connectvity to the Global Internet, including native IPv6

- MPLS Pseudowires services, supporting: 1: Remote Peering services; 2: Ethernet private lines.

- Ethernet Extension services, supporting: 1: Off-Net LAN to LAN services 2: Off-Net - Point to Multi Point Ethernet

As specialist in the wholesale telecommunication market, TINet sells services to worldwide organizations requiring high capacity and availability, such as telecom carriers, cable TV operators, web hosting companies, and to smaller ISPs, also known as Tier 2 carriers.

Tiscali International Network has developed a sustainable and growing wholesale business model. The company has globally achieved over 200% growth in traffic every year of its existence; in 2006 the carrier has experienced a dramatic growth in North America, increasing its network traffic by 300% compared to the previous year.

History

Tiscali International Network (TINet) is an established, experienced wholesale provider with an operational history dating back to 1998. TINet was originally set up to provide Internet connectivity to the Tiscali group; afterwards TINet's backbone has been improved and extended to serve all of the regions displaying significant bandwidth requirements.

Today Tiscali International Network boasts an extensive network covering Europe, East to West US coasts; Canada and Asia and keeps investing in extending its reach and private interconnects with the leading carriers worldwide. Over the years TINet has established itself as a leading carrier in Europe supplying clear channel and IP Transit services to incumbents, international carriers and leading service providers across Europe. Its large base of on-network users and content, combined with our extensive network, positions it as one of the leading Internet backbone providers in Europe and worldwide, a status commonly referred to as a Pan-European Tier 1 Internet backbone provider.

Network

TINet extensive network includes over 100 IP/MPLS PoPs covering the most of Europe, USA; Canada and APAC. TINet coverage in Europe extends from the Mediterranean countries, Spain, Greece and Italy to the Nordic, from Ireland to the Eastern Europe. In the North American market TINet is ramping up its network infrastructure, which extends from East to West coast to meet growing customer demand in the region.

Based on the amount of Internet traffic on TINet’s IP backbone, TINet is among the largest Internet carriers worldwide: the company operates the third largest IP network in Europe and the second largest IPv6 network worldwide. The company is one of the first carriers in Europe to have a "next generation Internet" network in actual production since year 2001.

TINet operates a high resilience and congestion-free network with a truly seamless infrastructure. Its network is designed via advanced traffic engineering with MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching), resulting in enhanced quality of service

TINet IP/MPLS backbone extends over 3 continents with

*Over 150 peers with 85% traffic exchanged via private peering
*Ethernet lines on the metropolitan and long distance networks
*2 Carrier-class International Operating Centers (I-NOC)
*Custom DDoS protection
*Over 100 PoPs

Notes

* [http://www.Tiscali.net/ Official website]
* [http://investors.tiscali.com/tiscali/ Tiscali Investor Relations]