Tiscali International Network
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| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Utrech, Netherlands |
| Key people | Paolo Susnik CEO |
| Industry | Telecommunication IP Transit |
| Products | Internet transit ; Ethernet Line & Voice Termination |
| Website | / www.Tiscali.net |
Tiscali International Network (TINet) is a telecommunications company that provides computer networking services worldwide. It maintains a large international IP backbone in Europe, USA and Asia and offers IP transit, layer 2 MPLS links, and VoIP, 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.
Tiscali International Network (TINet), the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is the only carrier exclusively dedicated to the wholesale IP/VoIP-MPLS market and has network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC.
International wholesale products offered under the “TINet” brand include:
- Global IP Connectivity, providing connectivity to the Global Internet
- MPLS lines, supporting Remote Peering services and Data back-up links
- Voice services: voice termination and collection services based on Voice Over IP technology delivered by the largest pan-European VoIP network to date
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.
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[edit] 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 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.
[edit] Network
TINet extensive network includes over 100 IP/MPLS PoPs covering the most of Europe, USA 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
