Teralink | Tailor-Made Connectivity Solutions for Online Gaming ...

The online gaming industry is booming. Digi-Capital reports that global and mobile online game revenue will grow to $41B in 2015. To participate in this astonishing growth, companies must give consumers dependable, secure and fast online access to games worldwide.

As a network engineer working for P&TLuxembourg and TERALINK, it?s a pleasure for me to head teams that deliver the infrastructure and technology gaming companies need to serve their customers. I?m Pierre Scholtes, and Micael Weber has asked me to tell you about the custom solutions we?ve developed for online gaming companies. This is timely, as TERALINK will have a booth at the Games Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe), August 13-15 in Cologne, Germany. It is the largest professionals-only games industry event in Europe, and will be held in conjunction with gamescom, the leading European consumer show.

We?ve identified eight key features that are of paramount importance to online gaming companies.

Flexibility in Connectivity Options

Not all gaming companies have their own IP address base that can be used for building business in Europe. ?So we offer a choice of connectivity options. For companies with their own IP address base and autonomous system number (AS#), we offer IP Transit. Or, companies can choose Direct Internet Access, where we provide the address base.

Reduncancy

Online gaming IP Transit customers can achieve redundancy by announcing their address base over two separate links to P&TLuxembourg or by using another upstream provider as a backup. With our Direct Internet Access customers, redundancy is achieved either through 2 separate fiber routes for the same address base to any datacenter they choose, or through 2 independent direct Internet accesses with independent address bases.

Availability

Clearly, it is imperative that customers are never disconnected ? that connectivity between gaming servers and gamers is never dropped. So we have implemented a complete MPLS backbone (50 millisecond re-routing within the network). There are MPLS tunnels between all the nodes of the TERALINK network, with pre-configured backup routes. This essentially allows immediate recovery from any failure inside the core network.

Performance

There must be no visible delay as customers play games. We can achieve a very low ?round trip time? all over Europe partly thanks to Luxembourg?s central location, but principally because of TERALINK?s direct connectivity to key Internet exchanges. In fact, we can often provide direct connections to the carriers of the game players. We have peering points to all major Internet exchanges, and over 600 peering partners within key exchanges. Over 50% of the traffic goes directly to peering partners, which further reduces the delays.

Multiple Online Gaming Bandwidth Solutions

Companies need different high-speed broadband network solutions. So we provide bandwidth from 100 Mb/s to 10 Gb/s with partial committed and/or burstable options. A customer can even opt for multiple 10 Gb/s ports. In Luxembourg, we were the first provider to operate 100 Gb/s international links in the core, and we can insure that there will be spare capacity to accommodate even big peaks of traffic.

Security

In order to detect and mitigate Distributed Denial of Service attacks ?and protect against botnets or other malicious software, we operate advanced security technologies which can clean the traffic and filter out malicious packets on request.

Experience

TERALINK has a unique advantage as part of the P&TLuxembourg group. As a smaller player, we can be very flexible and quick to respond. Yet, at the same time, we have engineers with years of experience who can consult with gaming companies to help them choose the right solutions.

24/7 Dedicated Supervision

Should any issue be identified, we immediately respond and intervene as necessary.
If you attend GDC Europe, please be sure and stop by our booth which we will share with our subsidiary ebrc. If you want to know more about our online gaming connectivity solutions, please contact Micael Weber. I hope you?ve found this information to be useful. Please comment and let me know.

Source: http://teralinkinsight.com/tailor-made-connectivity-solutions-for-online-gaming-learn-more-at-gdc/

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