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Since its inception in 1990, IDT has become a leading
provider of international and domestic long-distance telephone service,
Internet access, and global Internet telephony services.
IDT Corporation
is a leading facilities-based multinational carrier that provides a broad
range of telecommunications services to wholesale and retail customers
worldwide. The Company's IDT Ventures division is developing several telecom
and Internet-related businesses.
Through its wholly-owned IDT Investments subsidiary, the Company has
equity interests in other technology companies, including its former subsidiary,
Net2Phone, Inc., which offers a variety of Internet telephony products
and services. IDT continues to revamp its free dial-up services via FreeAtLast.com,
with limited success.
As of October 1, 2000, IDT had approximately 165 wholesale customers
located in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, IDT offers retail long distance
services to over 150,000 individual and business customers in the U.S.
and worldwide.
IDT's fully redundant clear channel DS3 backbone uses telecom switching
technologies that route data traffic with up to 1/1000th the latency of
a typical router. IDT's clear channel DS3s are switched, via these units,
and provide a stable, secure platform for its Cisco 7500 series routing
equipment.
Should any one of its National DS3s fail, data will be switched through
a backup fault tolerant path that operates below the IP layer to avoid
the large overhead involved in recalculating routed paths, which allows
IDT to recover from service disruptions within milliseconds.
IDT's network architecture is based on a minimum hop strategy: Any network
node is a maximum of five hops from an Internet meet point. This unique
design minimizes packet loss and delay, and guarantees the best possible
performance. This topology is unique among major ISPs.
IDT currently peers in four public Internet meet points, (see below).
It is here that IDT hands off traffic to and from other large ISPs and
over 70 other ISPs who have secured peering arrangements. In addition
to draining traffic at public exchanges, IDT also setup mutual private
peering arrangements with other large national ISPs.
IDT monitors activities on its backbone with several tools. These tools
are a combination of commercially available and proprietary applications
developed by Cabletron and its own development staff. These applications
provide snapshots of the IDT network every 15 seconds. Engineers monitor
overall network stability and bandwidth utilization, which allows IDT
to identify "hot-spots" on the network before problems develop.
Domestic interconnection points
[Chicago] Ameritech Chicago NAP
[Pennsauken, NJ] Sprint New York NAP
[San Jose, CA] MAE West
[Washington, DC] MAE East
Corporate contact info
[Corporate Address] 520 Broad Street Newark,
NJ 07102
[Voice] (973) 438-4671
[Tollfree] (800) 889-9126
[Sales] Complete
Online Form or call (800) 375-7431
[ISP Services] Products
[Executive]
Howard Jonas, Chariman and Treasurer
[Financial] Stock exchange symbol: IDTC
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