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RNP and Embratel improve communications between backbones

The information highway linking the national academic and commercial Internet has been expanded. RNP and Embratel activated a 16 Mbps link at the Rio de Janeiro network traffic exchange point on August 7th. Aside from the broadened bandwidth, the Rio connection has brought in new equipment to enable it to run on ATM technology, which is being used in the deployment of the new RNP backbone. The total speed of communications between the RNP and the Embratel backbone, the largest commercial network with access to the Internet in Latin America, has now been raised to 50 Mbps.

The quality of service at peering, as the exchange of traffic between backbones is called, directly affects global network performance for the end user. Before the activation of this first point in Rio de Janeiro, the communication of data between these two national backbones was made by way of the United States, which resulted in greater response time for the user and unnecessary backlog in the network. The Embratel and RNP backbones currently maintain two points of peering. The circuitry of dedicated lines installed in São Paulo last year amount to 34 Mbps in speed.

Aside from these two network-traffic exchange points, RNP and Embratel are planning to inaugurate a third one, soon to go on the air in Brasilia. Embratel is solely responsible for covering the costs of installation and maintenance of peering-service communication channels between these two backbones.

[RNP, 08.08.2000]