Yahoo! Korea selects Flag Telecom

NEW DELHI: Flag Telecom has been selected by Yahoo Korea to provide trans-continental connectivity and intra-Asia advanced services across the Flag Telecom global network.

According to the press release, to achieve the Yahoo solution, Flag configured its global Ethernet service between Korea and the US to fulfill the user authentication requirement, and implemented Flag's IP transit service to deliver high quality and high-speed access to international content.

User authentication was configured as a point to point service, traversing Flag's wholly owned backbone network via a dedicated, secure Gigabit circuit, thus ensuring fast and reliable access between the Korea and US-based servers. Usage based billing ensures that any costs can be kept to a minimum.

Delivering high quality and high-speed access to international content was achieved with the implementation of Flag's IP Transit Service in Korea. Flag's IP network benefits from a single AS number and sits on Flag's self-managed global backbone and has been dimensioned to be extremely fast and reliable. As with the Global Ethernet Service, FLAG configured a Gigabit solution, providing Yahoo Korea the scalability and flexibility needed for usage fluctuations.

Yahoo's Korea regional operation manager Youngsuk Choi said, "We selected Flag as its global network design, advanced products and strategy match our global requirements and we are happy with the quality of service Flag delivers. Their flexible attitude, competitive pricing and usage based billing were also well received and we look forward to working closely with Flag to expand our global network.