Web Hosting Provider Speedera Delivers 15 Billion Hits In 24 Hours

Speedera Networks (www.speedera.com), a provider of on-demand distributed application hosting and content delivery services, today announced that during a 24-hour period in December of 2004 it delivered more than 15 billion Web requests, making it one of the largest companies in the world delivering Web content.

On Jan. 11, one global customer alone reached 10-Gigabits per second in content delivery traffic. Because of its network's robust architecture, Speedera was able to deliver the content flawlessly.

"To provide perspective about delivering 15 billion hits in a 24-hour cycle, we delivered 17 billion hits to the NASA Web portal for the entire year of 2004, at one point handling peak loads of nearly seven gigabits per second for NASA," said Ajit Gupta, president and CEO of Speedera Networks.

Speedera executives point to a confluence of events and long-term trends for the ongoing surge in Web traffic. The December spike, they pointed out, was due largely to the holiday shopping season and the use of rich media to entice visitors to stay longer at sites and make repeat visits.

The recent Asia tsunami cataclysm and subsequent international relief efforts have also sharply driven Internet traffic in general and Speedera's network traffic in particular.

There are other events that will drive Internet traffic to record levels. Speedera expects future traffic surges related to upcoming major events which its customers are involved with, such as NASA's space shuttle launch; the National Football League's annual Super Bowl on Feb. 6; and income tax season in the United States with its April 15 deadline.

"From our perspective, with our finger on the pulse of the Internet, we are seeing traffic rising at a rapid pace," said Gupta.