TOKYO -- INTERNET MULTIFEED CO. (MFEED; Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Koichi Suzuki) today begins support for a 10 Gbps interface as a new addition to its JPNAP Osaka Internet Exchange (IX) Service.

Traffic flowing on the Internet backbone continues its explosive growth, even more so now that so many users are choosing broadband access services. To meet the expanding demand, MFEED started JPNAP Osaka with the cooperation of NTT SmartConnect Corporation (NTT-SmC; headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka; president: Akitoshi Itoh) in January 2002. Today 13 networks connect through this service, and peak traffic has reached around 5 Gbps, making it a leading commercial IX serving Western Japan.

Among the users of JPNAP IX service are top-tier Internet service providers who access the service through multiple 1 Gbps interfaces. Increasingly, these and other customers are experiencing the need for interfaces exceeding 1 Gbps, enabling faster service over greater bandwidth. In response to these needs, as well as the need for load-balancing to offset the growing concentration of Internet traffic in the Tokyo area, MFEED added 10 Gbps interface service to JPNAP Osaka, following the launch of JPNAP 10G service in April of this year.