Timico’s network remains strong and resilient throughout the World Cup and Wimbledon

Newark, UK - July 12th, 2010 - The build up to the World Cup and Wimbledon this year had created a degree of nervousness within the ISP industry and UK businesses. These sporting events represented an unknown quantity in terms of bandwidth usage over ISP networks. Streamed content uses a lot of bandwidth, which could lead to network congestion and the slow performance of key applications, seriously affecting a business’s day-to-day operations. Timico, the independent B2B internet service provider, today announced that with significant provisioning and continued investment in their network infrastructure they were able to ensure there was more than enough capacity for their customers’ businesses to carry on as normal.

Recently, large sporting events, such as the Beijing Olympics and the Open Golf, have increasingly attracted an online following. There was a concern that the World Cup and Wimbledon traffic this year would hugely eclipse the surge of previous years. However as Timico is a business-only ISP and most of its traffic is carried during the day, unlike consumer ISPs who see their peak times from mid afternoon until around midnight, the company was much better prepared to handle the increased use of online streaming.

"The early daytime matches saw an increase of about 70% in video streaming to 170% of normal. The biggest surge was during the afternoon of the England v Slovenia match on June 23 where we saw a 357% increase in streaming, with global content delivery network Akamai reporting that the UK represented 22% of their global traffic. Even with such high demands on bandwidth, Timico’s business-to-business traffic stayed at 100%, our customers commented that their video streaming was excellent, plus we saw 12% more data carried on our network through this extremely ‘internet busy’ period. Overall we seemed to have coped extremely well with the experience, though not without some hard work from our highly skilled Network Operations team," says Trefor Davies, Chief Technology Officer at Timico.

"The London 2012 Olympics has the potential to put the World Cup in the shade, at least in the UK. There is going to be even more media hype surrounding the event and it is all going to be happening during the day, meaning more people will be going online to watch and keep track of Team GB’s progress. To meet the ever growing requirements of bandwidth-hungry applications, Timico is always focused on, and investing in, delivering a high quality network that is reliable, resilient and built to cope with high demand. Businesses will always receive the best data speeds their line can achieve without being constrained by the limitations of Timico’s network," concludes Trefor Davies.

About Timico

Timico is an independent internet service provider supplying business strength IP solutions. Founded in 2004 by a highly experienced management team, Timico is a converged provider that offers a wide range of communication solutions including IP connectivity, hosting and web solutions, IT services, voice solutions, managed homeworking and mobile services. Timico aims to help increase the efficiency of customers' operations, and use its independence to deliver the most appropriate and best value services. In 2009 Timico were ranked 7th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. For more information visit www.timico.co.uk

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For media information:

Suzie Hodges
Marketing
Timico
0844 871 8100
suzie.hodges@timico.co.uk

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