National broadband company Internode has launched a high-speed Australian mirror site to SourceForge.net, the world’s largest Open Source software development website.

SourceForge.net www.sourceforge.net provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralised resource for managing projects, issues, communications and code.

Internode’s SourceForge mirror, which is unmetered for Internode customers, brings the total amount of mirrored content on its servers to more than 32 terabytes (TB). Internode provides Australians with high-speed access to its mirrored content – which reflects data held on popular servers in the US – by maintaining deep peering relationships with major companies, both in Australia and overseas.

Technical Leader Content Services for Internode’s Content Services Group, Kingsley Foreman, said unmetered access to the 4.7 terabytes of SourceForge data was a boon for the Open Source community.  “We see this as an important enhancement for Australia’s Open Source community by providing high performance access to SourceForge that eclipses its previous local footprint,” he said.

“Increasingly, future software will come from the international collaboration that emerges from the Open Source community, so Internode is pleased to make it even easier for this to happen.”

Other unmetered content that Internode provides its customers includes:

•  Steam Content Server: Internode is the only ISP that offers free traffic to all Australian steam content servers, which provide automated and convenient software/patch updating services for a variety of current online games. See http://www.steampowered.com for details

• OfTheWorldTV http://oftheworld.tv/: Of The World TV is an online video service that showcases a smorgasbord of independently produced videos, many of them inclined towards alternative thought, political activism, environmentally-conscious concepts and humanitarian activities

• Online Streaming Radio http://www.internode.on.net/radio/: Internode re-broadcasts some of the best broadband streaming audio stations on the Internet, using its high-performance servers to deliver a high quality continuous stream long of CD-quality music. Internode provides more than 80 stations covering genres including rock, jazz, pop and Top 40 tunes

•  Internode Games Network http://games.internode.on.net/: Internode operates a game server farm that houses more than 50 game servers, plus web and database servers. Offering interactive gameplay, demo downloads and tip-sharing, the Internode Games Network has 140 dedicated game server instances with potential capacity of more than 4000 simultaneous on-line users.

About Internode www.internode.on.net

Internode is a first tier IP carrier committed to using broadband technology to redefine the national telecommunications environment. The Australian-owned company is a trailblazer that delivers broadband services to individuals and businesses throughout Australia.

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