Dropbox is\u00a0rolling out its own international private network to ensure users can access data quicker.<\/p>\n
According to a report by Fortune<\/strong><\/a>, the company aims to counter “bottlenecks” on the Internet by doing this.<\/p>\n The report stated that the company is removing third-party load balancers and replacing them with its “own software running on standard Linux hardware”.<\/p>\n Dropbox also plans to use its own fibre to carry its traffic.<\/p>\n “We want to make user experience as real time as possible, since 70% of our users are outside the US and most of the data lives in North America,” says Dan Williams, Dropbox’s head of production engineering.<\/p>\n Williams said the company is purchasing dark fibre within metro areas and is leasing long-haul services which cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.<\/p>\n “We’re not in the business of laying cable – only a few companies in the world need that sort of capability.”<\/p>\n The report stated that Dropbox’s new regional points-of-presence will include Sydney, Miami, and Paris.<\/p>\n Dropbox is\u00a0rolling out its own international private network to ensure users can access data quicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":178216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1922],"class_list":["post-216256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-dropbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216258,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216256\/revisions\/216258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Google launching new tool to back up your files online<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"