The promise of a better Internet
by Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 8/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
VeriSign has a plan for improving your Web browsing experience. Over the next year, the Internet domain company intends to triple its capacity for handling traffic flowing to servers that translate text-based Web addresses to the computer code necessary for connecting to a Web site. Aristotle Balogh, senior VP of infrastructure and operations, announced the plan in May, which calls for placing new servers in more than 200 locations around the world, thereby providing the redundancy necessary to lessen the impact of an increasing number of cyber attacks. It also could reduce the time it takes for users to see requested Web pages.
"We will be closer to the user on the network, so it won't take as long to get a response," says Balogh. "I want to be less than 50 milliseconds away from 90 percent of the world's [Internet] users."
