NTT America Gives Open Sourcers a Transit Boost [OStatic]

gigaom.com     Jul 22, 2008            

Who says contributions to open source have to be software-based? As Datamation notes, "NTT America, a Tier 1 carrier and a division of Japan-based NTT Communications, is now helping open source by donating IPv6 transit to the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)." There is also a release out about the arrangement. Mozilla, FreeBSD and many other open sourcers are positioned to benefit from the donation. The IPv6 transit provided by NTT America to ISC is being used to support F-root name server operations, and country-code top level domains that are ISC DNS hosting guests and participants in ISC's Hosted@ISC efforts. These participants include kernel.org, Mozilla, FreeBSD, Internet Archive and other organizations. “The FreeBSD Project greatly appreciates the opportunity to use ISC’s high-performance IPv6 transit,” said Robert... [read full story]                    


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