Giganews

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Giganews, Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Telecommunications
Founded1994 in Austin, Texas
Headquarters Austin, Texas
Products Usenet
Website giganews.com

Giganews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1994, Giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include RCN Corporation, [1] BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications.

In 2008 Giganews acquired Supernews. [2]

In 2010, Giganews began offering users VPN and cloud storage access ("VyprVPN" and "Dump Truck", respectively) via its parent company, Golden Frog. [3] [4]

Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries.

Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix [5] in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, AMS-IX [6] and NL-IX [7] in The Netherlands, DE-CIX [8] in Frankfurt, Germany, and LINX [9] [10] in London, United Kingdom. In late 2008, Giganews' bandwidth capacity at AMS-IX increased from 40 Gbit/s to 80 Gbit/s. [11]

Giganews offers more than three years of article retention in binary groups and eight years in text groups. [12] This results in more than nine petabytes (9000 terabytes) of storage. [13]

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