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Friendster: Technology
The ProblemPrivately owned and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Friendster supports a worldwide online community that boasts more than 18 million registered users and hundreds of millions of stored ‘friend relationships.’ Since its founding in 2002, the company has witnessed dramatic growth, including a tripling of traffic to its website between Spring 2004 and 2005. The company needed to manage its continuously escalating monthly bandwidth costs and have a better picture of how its frequent software releases and applications traffic – essential to support the dynamics of a worldwide, online community – were impacting its website performance. "[The FCP] simply does more in a day than even the best routing engineer is capable of doing in a year. I strongly feel that every multi-homed network needs an FCP.” Dave Kochbeck
Director of Technology Internap SolutionAs a means to address its growing bandwidth needs, Friendster installed the Internap® premise-based Flow Control Platform™ (FCP) solution at its California headquarters and witnessed an immediate elimination of all wasted bandwidth and network overage charges, saving the company $15,000 in the first month alone. Friendster was subsequently able to reduce its engineering staff headcount, optimize usage of its available bandwidth and gain critical visibility into the minute-by-minute performance of its network. |
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