Friday, February 29th 2008, 12:15 GMT
Today we have connected the Academy servers to IP-Only’s fiber backbone. This is
a very important step in our efforts to provide our students with the best
possible experience when taking our courses. A large part of course content is
video clips, and being connected to IP-Only’s fiber backbone guarantees that
server-side bandwidth will not cause any irritating video buffering on the
client side.
What makes this connection so important to our customers is that IP-Only owns "a
Nordic fiber backbone with more installed transmission capacity than any other
actor in the market". This is a quote from IP-Only’s home page, which you can
reach at
http://www.iponly.se.
Our servers are connected directly to IP-Only’s 10 Gigabit/s IP-backbone,
guaranteed to deliver 99.999% availability. This means that there are no
"detouring via unnecessary routers" between our servers and the backbone, which
for each of our customers means that he or she is very unlikely ever to
experience any server-side interruption in the Academy’s services.
Initially this gives us more than 100 Mbit/s, and we don’t share that capacity
with anyone else. This will be enough to service thousand of simultaneous users.
And when that bandwidth isn’t enough anymore, we can add more in multiples of
100Mbit/s, and even multiples of 1Gbit/s, in minutes.
The reason for issuing this news item is not to flash technological bravado.
It’s much more important than that. We want to show the public that we’re really
serious about the 2xSundblad Academy, and we will not save any efforts in
securing the best student experience possible. This is true about course
content, it’s true about presentation, and it’s true about delivery. We’re not
saving on any of that!