Internode

Internode, founded in 1991 by Managing Director Simon Hackett, is one of Australias major Internet Service Providers. The company focuses on primarily on ADSL-based Internet access, but also provides Business-class access (Internode Business Connect), web hosting/co-Location, Voice over IP, and a variety of related services.

Internode is based in Adelaide, South Australia, and supports many local events, such as the Adelaide Film Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

The company s services are now available nationwide through many means including network.

a second regional network based on the same technology was deployed in [http://www.agile.com.au/data/yorke.htm the Yorke Peninsula region], demonstrating that the underlying model is not only sustainable, but reproducable.

July 1, 2002 saw the launch of the Internode Games Network, a private computer game network run by Internode for its ADSL customers. It has since grown into the largest gaming network in Australia (in terms of peak daily player count) ahead of even Telstra s [http://games.bigpond.com/ GameArena].

In mid- have since been enabled on the same basis and DSLAMs for further townships are being rolled out.

In early 2005, Agile extended the existing national private backbone it operates for Internode, to become fully international [http://www.agile.com.au/data/connectivity.htm]. This means that Agile/Internode is now a full Australian Tier-1 operator.

Internode also runs other content servers such as a cluster of Steam_(content_delivery)content servers.

Additional unmetered content available via the national Agile backbone network includes relays of popular streaming audio sources and a 6 Terabyte mirror server [http://www.internode.on.net/content].

Today Internode is one of the more successful ISPs in Australia, and is undertaking innovation relative to the hobbled (1.5 Mbit/s speed limited) Telstra DSLAM services by deploying its own services using ADSL2+ at speeds up to 24 Mbit/s [http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2].

Internode was both the first ISP to offer ADSL2 and then the first ISP to offer [http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2 ADSL2+] services in Australia.

Internode operates a nationally available based services is that it runs over a national private IP network, not over the best-effort Internet. As such. it is positioned as a carrier grade packet based voice service, and is not succeptible to quality problems created by external Internet path failures or congestion.

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