primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . march 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message giganews inc. type private industry telecommunications founded 1994 in austin texas headquarters austin texas products usenet website www.giganews.com giganews inc is a usenet newsgroup service provider . founded in 1994 giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers . giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries . the giganews website offers content documentation and support in 10 languages . well known isps that have outsourced usenet access to giganews include rcn corporation 1 bt wow wide open west and kingston communications . in 2010 giganews began offering users vpn and cloud storage access vyprvpn and dump truck respectively via its parent company golden frog . 2 3 giganews traffic is peered at equinix 4 in ashburn in loudoun county virginia ams ix 5 and nl ix 6 in the netherlands de cix 7 in frankfurt germany and linx 8 9 in london united kingdom . in late 2008 giganews bandwidth capacity at ams ix increased from 40gbit s to 80gbit s. 10 giganews offers more than three years of article retention in binary groups and eight years in text groups . 11 this results in more than nine petabyte 9000 terabyte of storage . 12 references edit rcn forum faq dslreports.com . retrieved 15 september 2014 . vyprvpn review . retrieved 2015 01 13 . golden frog partners with giganews to deliver dump truck online storage to giganews members . retrieved 2012 04 17 . usenet newsgroups peering giganews . retrieved 15 september 2014 . details for giganews inc. http www.nl ix.net members.php october 2004 . retrieved 15 september 2014 . external link in title help giganews connects to de cix opens peering in germany . retrieved 15 september 2014 . giganews brings network to uk through linx . retrieved 15 september 2014 . linx members g . retrieved 15 september 2014 . giganews doubles capacity at the amsterdam internet exchange ams ix . retrieved 15 september 2014 . best usenet provider giganews . retrieved 15 september 2014 . giganews.com has more than 9 petabyte of usenet storage . giganews.com . retrieved 2012 02 14 . external links edit giganews giganews on twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title giganews & oldid 742391747 categories usenetinternet service providers of the united statesbroadbandhidden categories cs1 errors external linksarticles lacking reliable references from march 2013all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 12 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view