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Broadband ISP goes Linux

The penguin gets the nod...

By Ben King

Published: 24 October 2001 17:45 BST

ISP Freedom2Surf has rebuilt its broadband network using Linux, in a bid to bring its customers faster streaming media.

Out go the old Cisco routers, and in comes a new purpose built Linux architecture which they claim improves data flow by over 10 per cent - Boosting the performance of video and audio streaming and speeding up real time games.

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