May 18th 2000: A high-flying new venture is signing up ISP and ASP partners across Europe for the roll-out of an application-friendly IP network infrastructure later this year.

Aduronet is adopting an indirect sales model for services such as pan-European virtual private networking; secure, high-speed Internet transit; and end-to-end application and content delivery to guaranteed service levels. Local partners in each country will market the Aduronet services under their own brand. "Why can't communications go indirect? I think it will," SVP technology Brian Levy told ASPnews.com in a briefing last week.

Aduronet's innovative network architecture combines the traditional any-to-any mesh topology of the Internet with a one-to-many star configuration to optimise content and application delivery. It believes it is the first network services provider to combine both approaches in a single architecture.

With direct connections in every European Internet exchange, the network will speed Internet access for users, while direct links from two central data centres to every one of its ISP partners will speed delivery of content and applications.

The attraction for application providers is a significant decrease in latency - the time it takes for packets to cross the network because of delays passing through routers. The European Internet is especially prone to router bottlenecks, because every major country has its own exchange point, making it costly for ISPs to invest in adequate pan-European connectivity.

Aduronet has already signed up European ASP HOSTeu and online broker E*Trade, which also has an equity stake in the startup. "E*Trade came to us because it's one hop to the ISP," said Levy.

The startup revealed its plans and a top-notch management team at a launch in London on Tuesday (May 16th) - see related asp-news story at internetnews.com, High-flying Euro venture creates next-generation IP network.

As well as key former members of Qwest Communications' founding team, Aduronet last month recruited Mark De Simone, a regular keynote speaker at ASP conferences over the past year in his previous role as VP global marketing for Lucent's service provider business.

The Aduronet infrastructure is build on leading-edge virtual router technology from Redwood City-based startup Cosine Communications and wire-speed backbone routers from Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks. The backbone links - running on leased optical fibre - will begin with 155Mbps OC3 capacity, and will upgrade later to 622Mbpos OC12 and eventually 2.5Gbps OC48.

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