Giganews

Giganews, Inc is a Usenet/newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1998, Giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include RCN Corporation^[1], BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications.

According to www.top1000.org^[2], the combined weight of Giganews' servers makes Giganews the most peered Usenet server currently online.

Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix^[3] in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, AMS-IX^[4] and NL-IX^[5] in The Netherlands, DE-CIX^[6] in Frankfurt, Germany, and LINX^[7]^[8] in London, United Kingdom. In late 2008, Giganews' bandwidth capacity at AMS-IX increased from 40Gb/s to 80Gb/s^[9].

In the summer of 2005, Giganews provided open Usenet access to attendees of the What The Hack conference in The Netherlands^[10].

Starting in early 2006, the Mozilla Foundation’s newsgroup hierarchy was sponsored by Giganews^[11].

In late 2006, Giganews implemented SSL Encryption as an optional service feature for all customers^[12].

Article retention in binary groups was increased to 240 days October 2008^[13]. As of March 09 , Giganews upgraded the binary retention to 365 days.

References

top1000.org - The Official Usenet TOP1000 Servers Page
http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html - Details for accessing the Mozilla Development Forums