(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Los Angeles-based content delivery network NetDNA (www.netdna.com) has selected Mzima Networks’ (www.mzima.net) low-latency, 10-Gigabit backbone to deliver NetDNA’s high-performance, reliable content quickly and efficiently with its transit capacity exceeding 1 Tbps and global peering capabilities.
According to high-performance network service provider Mzima in its Wednesday announcement, after carefully evaluating major backbone providers, NetDNA found Mzima to be the logical partner for the task after examining each stage of its content delivery process. According to its research, NetDNA will see major increases to network speed and efficiency with the help of Mzima.
“Mzima is the best built and most optimized backbone network for the delivery of content to broadband users,” NetDNA president Chris Ueland said in a statement. “Mzima’s ten NetDNA locations connect to an array of global broadband users, reaching over 90 countries and over 500 global peering partners. Mzima meets and surpasses NetDNA’s core network requirements, specifically speed and availability.”
Mzima Networks chief technology officer Grant Kirkwood said NetDNA has already deployed its global edge cloud solutions at ten of Mzima’s network locations. “With Mzima’s network, latency is 10-20 milliseconds from most of the US and NetDNA’s customers’ content is rapidly delivered to end users, optimizing performance by loading files from the nearest geographic location,” Kirkwood said in a statement. “Mzima provides NetDNA with intelligent best-path routing with a route analysis system that monitors packet loss and latency. We also provide routing policies to ensure optimal performance across our backbone.”
In a recently posted WHIR TV interview, Kirkwood explained Mzima’s new initiatives including its “Donut Peering” model of networking, which involves interconnecting and peering with Tier 2 providers on the edge in multiple locations, while also maintaining connectivity to multiple Tier 1 providers, to ensure Mzima customers that their traffic is more directly routed — and that there are no holes in the network.
