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(July
25, 2001) Bitstop is currently testing  various Broadband wireless
solutions in preparation for our planned Broadband on Demand service
(BonDs). 

The BonDs provides a guaranteed 128kbps and 256kbps of burst at ordinary dialup rates!

Our recently deployed Cisco 7206VXR with NPE-400 telco-class router allows Bitstop to provide up to 8000 simultaneous broadband connections! Watch out for the BonDs grand launching!

Photo shows Engr Edward Taguiba of PCST testing the Cisco Aironet 340 Wireless Bridge and Cisco Omni Directional Antenna. The system is on loan courtesy of Cisco Philippines.

(July 21, 2001) For the nth time this year, the E1/R2 lines that provide 56k dialup access to Bitstop clients went down. As of this writing, Digitel is yet to respond to this. Preliminary reports indicate that construction activity near or at the bridge is the culprit to the down time.

(July 21, 2001) Subscribers may now use the 56k Digitel lines. Thanks to our support group for the continuous follow up made with the Telco that led to the line restoration.

(July 21, 2001) Gerard V. of Bitstop compared the speed between Compaq SCSI 9GB with a transfer speed of 80mbps and Seagate SCSI 18GB at 160mbps.The test copied 300mb file size from the CD rom drive to the respective drives on the same windows 2000 server running on dual pentium III 800. The results are as expected:

	80mpbs	160mpbs
CDROM to HDD	00:03:15	00:02:22
HDD to HDD	00:01:27	00:00:54

Bitstop used an Ultra 160 SCSI DC-390U3W SCSI card.

(July
20, 2001) Bitstop is now deploying Akamai servers on its network.
Akamai’s distributed application and content delivery service enables
Akamai content customers the benefit of superior reliability,
scalability and personalization. Akamai servers are located at the edges
of the Internet and deliver all media types including HTML graphics
files, animations, and software downloads. With Akamai doing the “heavy
lifting,” and serving this data-rich content from servers located
geographically close to end-users, Akamaized Web sites load in a
flash-up to 10 times faster.

(July 19, 2001)
Bitstop shut down our NOC from 12:00am to 5:00am today to upgrade our
routers to Cisco 7206VXR.

(July 19, 2001) Bitstop and StreamQuestAsia invites you to visit the official webpage of Regal Film’s Cool Dudes project. Click on this link http://www.regalfilms.ph/cooldudes

(July 18, 2001) Picture shows Toni Balatao, Bing Berces, Llen Oyco, Lenard De Leon and Francis Vidal after the iMac presentation. Also show in picture are the ibook and iMac.

(July
18, 2001) APC support headed by Mr Cris Maniego and JJ Sablan visited
Bitstop today to check on the status of our Matrix 5k and Matrix 3k UPS.
Our thanks for such wonderful service. 

(July 11, 2001) As an akamai partner, Bitstop will soon receive the shipment of servers that will host the localized content of akamai partners like Yahoo, MSNBC etal from Bitstop. Our subscribers will surely feel the improved performance of having video and audio streams out of our local servers!