In September 2009, TeleGeography, a trusted source for information and research about the global telecommunications industry, released findings from its Global Internet Geography report published August 2009.   According to the report, though the world has been in a recession since 2008, the international Internet market has not experienced the same effects.

According to TeleGeography, Internet traffic grew 74 percent in 2009, up from 55 percent in 2008.  On the other hand, companies were conservative on network upgrades which caused overcrowded networks and less reliability for some parts of the world.  Compared to the growth of Internet traffic, International Internet bandwidth grew only 64 percent, a slight increase in network utilization – clearly impacting Internet quality.

 It’s hard to put these numbers in context, so let’s take a look at Tinet, formerly the International arm of Tiscali Group.  Tinet is a specialist wholesale provider of global IP Transit and Ethernet Transport solutions.  It happens to be the only pure-play specialist in this market, which makes them a good candidate to review.

According to Tinet, the company has seen steady growth in 2009.  In May, the company was acquired by B.S. Private Equity, one of Italy’s largest private equity firms that is committed to growing the company.  As a testament to the research TeleGeography published, Tinet has experienced growth on its network in the past year.  Just recently, in August 2009, the company announced an expansion of its operations in North America.  The company states that in the previous quarter, the company added 25 long haul backbone circuits across the U.S. and opened three additional network Points of Presence (PoPs) in Newark, New Jersey; Dallas, Texas and Denver, Colorado.

Due to the company’s growth, especially in serving its customers in North America, Tinet announced that it has begun to implement a third Network Operations Center (NOC) in New Jersey, which is scheduled to be completed in 2010.

A staggering figure published by TeleGeography is that global carriers added 9.4 Tbps of new international capacity in 2009 – more than the total capacity of all international Internet links in existence in 2007.

Tinet continues to focus on expanding its network, offering only global IP Transit and Ethernet Transport solutions.  The company provides migration plans and assists its customers and prospects in migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 technology.  They are flexible, customer service oriented and willing to expand, even in tough times, to meet the market demand and assure quality on its backbone network.  That’s a clear message indeed.

For more information about TeleGeography and its report please go to: http://www.telegeography.com/products/gig/index.php

For more information about Tinet’s global IP and Ethernet backbone, its services in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, please visit www.tinet.net.