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Subsidiary Firm of Tiggee Arbinet Corporation has announced that DNS Made Easy, a subsidiary of Tiggee, an Internet service system provider, has connected to Arbinet's Layer 2 IP Exchange for its Internet transit multi-homing solution. Arbinet provides DNS Made Easy the ability to easily connect to multiple Tier 1 ISPs in different locations enabling the company to run a more cost-effective and high performance IP 'any-cast' network.

Through a single connection to Arbinet's Layer 2 IP Exchange, DNS Made Easy gains direct access to multiple Tier 1 ISPs without any additional ASN hops and is able to purchase high quality IP Transit at wholesale rates with the flexibility of a short contract term and no minimum commitment. This connection also enables DNS Made Easy to choose meshed or separate BGP sessions per ISP supplier for redundancy and optimal traffic management and to utilize Arbinet's online portal, which allows it to add or change suppliers within minutes, eliminating traditionally long ISP provisioning cycles. DNS Made Easy's solutions are currently available in Los Angeles, New York and London, with expansion plans to Hong Kong underway.

"After deploying an evaluation connection with Arbinet, we committed to one contract, one cross-connect to gain access to multiple Tier 1 IP backbone providers," explains Steven Job, President of Tiggee and DNS Made Easy. "We connected to Arbinet in three locations and plan to expand our connectivity across three continents. By connecting to Arbinet we have decreased our look-up response time by 22ms and our services were up and running in record time and under budget while gaining access to top quality IP backbone providers at highly competitive rates. Today we are serving more than one billion queries a day."

"DNS Made Easy's network required multiple connections to providers across a variety of markets," states Sue Su, Vice President of Data Services at Arbinet. "Our IP Exchange allows DNS Made Easy to start with no bandwidth commitment and saves the cost of connecting to and managing multiple ISP suppliers with a single contract, invoice and network support interface. It offers DNS Made Easy a highly scalable and cost-efficient IP solution to help drive optimal network performance."