By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
October 28, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As part of its Project Titan initiative to strengthen and secure its global Internet infrastructure, VeriSign (www.verisign.com) has deployed additional infrastructure in Terremark’s Madrid facility to keep pace with world Internet growth.
According to global IT infrastructure services provider Terremark Worldwide (www.terremark.com) in an announcement last week, its carrier-neutral NAP de las Americas Madrid network will be hosting VeriSign, which protects more than one million Web servers with digital certificates. According to VeriSign, its digital certificates protect the majority of secure Internet sites, including 93 percent of those belonging to Fortune 500 companies.
According to Terremark, the 3280 sq.ft NAP de las Americas Madrid, which went online in October 2004, is in a strategic geographic location and serves as an Internet gateway to the European Union, North Africa and the Americas. NAP de las Americas Madrid was the product of Terremark’s technical and operational research and experience, and was modeled after its flagship, 750,000 sq.ft NAP of the Americas in Miami built to link Latin America with the rest of the world.
In addition to its deployment in Spain, VeriSign has previously deployed core Internet infrastructure at the NAP of the Americas in Miami where its infrastructure in the facility primarily includes generic Top Level Domain servers for .com and .net.
“The .com and .net infrastructures are continually being fortified and scaled to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks,” VeriSign chief technology officer Ken Silva said in a statement. “VeriSign is increasing the capacity of its global Internet infrastructure by ten times by the year 2010 and it has become ever more important to proactively expand our infrastructure to areas where Internet users are rapidly expanding.”
VeriSign plans to increase its bandwidth capacity ten times from more than 20 gigabits per second to more than 200 Gbps according to its Project Titan initiative. The company will also increase its daily DNS query capacity tenfold from 400 billion queries a day currently to four trillion queries a day by 2010.
