Infobox Company company name Giganews, Inc. company logo Image Giganewslogo.jpg company type Private company Private foundation 1994 in Austin, Texas Austin , Texas location Austin, Texas Austin , Texas key people num employees industry Telecommunication s products Usenet homepage http www.giganews.com www.giganews.com Giganews, Inc is a Usenet newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1994, Giganews service is available to individual users through a Subscription business model subscription model and as an Outsourcing outsourced service to internet service providers . Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million Broadband Internet access broadband users in 180 countries. The Giganews website offers content, documentation and support in 10 languages. Well known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include RCN Corporation , ref http www.broadbandreports.com faq rcn RCN Forum FAQ dslreports.com ref BT Group BT , WOW Wide Open West , and Kingston Communications . Giganews traffic is peering peered at Equinix ref http www.giganews.com peering.html Usenet Newsgroups Peering Giganews ref in Ashburn, Virginia Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia Loudoun County , Virginia ... Details for Giganews, Inc. ref and Netherlands Internet Exchange NL IX ref ... CIX ref http www.giganews.com news article giganews connects to de cix.html Giganews Connects to DE ... http www.giganews.com news article giganews joins london internet exchange.html Giganews Brings Network ... , United Kingdom . In late 2008, Giganews bandwidth capacity at AMS IX increased from 40Gb s to 80Gb s. ref http www.giganews.com news article giganews doubles amsix capacity.html Giganews Doubles Capacity at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange AMS IX ref Giganews offers more than 3 years of article ... links http www.giganews.com Giganews Twitter Giganews Category Usenet Category Internet service providers es Giganews ... more details
primary sources date November 2009 Infobox Company company name Astraweb, Inc. company logo Image Astraweb logo.png 220px company type Private company Private foundation 1997 key people num employees industry Telecommunication s products Usenet homepage http www.astraweb.com www.astraweb.com Astraweb is a Usenet newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1997, Astraweb service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to Internet service providers . Notably Astraweb was responsible for the huge increase of retention on almost all big Usenet services, which was triggered by their announcement to keep files for up to 270 days in December 2008. As of late December 2011, retention time for files was for up to 1231 days ref http www.news.astraweb.com tools stats.html Astraweb Statistics ref . References See Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.ralree.com 2009 01 17 giganews vs astraweb Giganews vs. Astraweb http filesharingtalk.com vb3 f general newsgroups 79 t astraweb vs giganews 367427 Astraweb vs. Giganews http www.shareconnector.com astraweb usenet server review ShareConnector s Astraweb Review http usenetreviews.info astraweb Review which notes on Astrawebs role in the retention war Categories Category Usenet servers ... more details
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1287 days. ref cite web url http www.giganews.com faq.html q0.4 title Giganews FAQ How long are articles ... http www.giganews.com legal privacy.html title Giganews Privacy Policy publisher Giganews.com date ... more details
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