| AARNet upgrades open source software distribution |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 11 April 2006 | |
  
AARNet launched the service in 1997 in partnership with The University of Queensland and The Queensland Regional Network Organisation to allow popular software downloads to be locally accessible so that expensive international traffic costs could be avoided. The site has since been upgraded several times to keep up with increased user demand. However, AARNet recently took a decision to revamp the entire mirror infrastructure inline with the roll out of the AARNet3 network. It claims that the new mirror "uses the latest hardware for faster performance and a vastly expanded disk subsystem". It has been deployed with a dedicated connection to the AARNet3 backbone, which means it can support data rates at multi gigabit speeds with the option to upgrade to 10Gbps in the future. Additional disk space has provided a larger software archive coverage that has been populated with up to date software and archive distributions, giving users "fast, reliable and high performance access to a wider range of open source software distributions." Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet, said: "The new AARNet mirror is an important resource that has been delivered in response to our customers' needs. It offers high speed access to software with our AARNet connected sites who can make use of this resource as a value add service that forms part of AARNet's on.net subscription fee. Our hope is that the mirror remains popular and that it continues to be a rich source for developers, educators and end users." The new AARNet mirror is now online at the same web address, http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au. |
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