The TAG Network announced this week that they will open new co-location centers in London and Amsterdam in July. The company said these secured floors will be equipped with state-of-the-art UPSes, fire suppression systems, and redundancy fiber entrances, as are all TAG co-location facilities.
"London and Amsterdam were requested by our existing customers and prospects," TAG CEO Alain "Tagger" Roy told AVNOnline.com. "We are dealing exclusively with the adult, gaming, and gambling industries. We are basically a large backbone network hooked up on 400 major networks, feeding the Internet to our mission-critical customers, serving them with bandwidth, co-location, servers, managed services, and Web design. Nobody else has dedicated a full North American and European fiber network to the adult industry."
The TAG Network also just finished testing their new load-balancing product, called GLOBAL, which will allow customers to position servers geographically to optimize the throughput of their Websites. In this system, the server closest to the customer will be used for distribution to destination. That system can also be used for redundancy – meaning if one server fails, the system will redirect the traffic to the another server, resulting in no down time, even during maintenance.
"We are accepting load-balanced customers as we speak,” said Roy. “The name of the product, GLOBAL, stands for Global LOad BALancing. An adult customer can install a server in Seattle and another server in New York and we will load balance and create a redundant site between each with DNS structure."
The official launch for these products will be in August at Internext Florida 2004, where TAG will be offering special service packages for the duration of the Expo.
