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i3D.net

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i3D.net
ISIN🆔
Industry
  • Hosting
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Computer Game Industry
Founded 📆2002
Founder 👔Stijn Koster
Headquarters 🏙️Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Number of locations
45 (2023)
Area served 🗺️
Key people
Stijn Koster (Founder & Managing Director)
Products 📟 
Members
Number of employees
135 (2023)
ParentUbisoft
🌐 Websitehttps://i3d.net
📇 Address
📞 telephone

i3D.net (/aɪθriːdiːdɒtnɛt/) is a managed hosting provider that supplies IaaS (infrastructure as a service) services such as bare-metal servers, colocation, CDN (Content Delivery Network), IP (Internet Protocol) transit, and bare metal cloud. In addition to compute resources, the company offers anti-DDoS, anti-cheat software, a game hosting orchestrator, and a game hosting platform.

The hosting provider specializes in the video gaming.[1], real-time communication (RTC) and enterprise IT market and manages servers and infrastructure for Electronic Arts (EA)[2], Ubisoft, Discord, Reset[3], among others.

Company[edit]

i3D.net was founded in 2002 in Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands and its infrastructure spans 45+ locations on 6 continents with almost 10k IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes[4]

Peering[edit]

i3D.net is part of the Border Gateway Protocols (BGP) open peering community.[5] The network links with internet providers on internet exchanges, including the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), DE-CIX, PTT São Paulo, Neutral Internet Exchange (NL-ix) and London Internet Exchange (LINX), which places i3D.net in the top 20 of the best connected ASNs.[6]

The company's VP of Network, Martijn Schmidt, has contributed to the creation of a technical standard for computer networks and co-authored the technical document RFC 8195[7], which defines the set of rules and guidelines for using BGP Large Communities in production networks.[8]

Data centers[edit]

A portion of their compute resources are housed in the 3500 m2 Smartdc data center[9] in Rotterdam and Heerlen.

Sustainability[edit]

i3D.net is aligned with sustainable corporate goals for environment-friendly practices, and its daughter company Smartdc uses waste heat to heat the UNESCO world heritage site the Van Nelle factory, saving 800,000 m3 of gas every year.[10][11]

Acquisitions[edit]

In 2018, i3D.net bought the company MyInternetServices.com LLC growing its revenue and presence in the United States.[12]

In 2021, i3D.net bought the company Gameblocks which added the anti-cheat software FairFight to its gaming product portfolio.[13]

Acquisition by Ubisoft[edit]

On November 30, 2018, the company announced that it was acquired by French game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment.[14] According to founder and Managing Director Stijn Koster, this decision was made to "greatly enhance our global reach while continuing to function as an independent managed hosting provider for gaming companies and for a broad range of organizations.”[15]

Nominations & Awards  [edit]

Deloitte Technology Fast 50  [edit]

The company was nominated in the Deloitte Technology Fast50 competition between 2010 and 2013.

  • 2010 Technology Fast 50 - Nominee[16]
  • 2011 Technology Fast 50 - Nominee[17]
  • 2012 Technology Fast 50 – Nominee[18]
  • 2013 Technology Fast 50 – Nominee[19]

Het Financieele Dagblad Gazellen Award[edit]

The company has been named the fastest-growing company in the Netherlands by Het Financieele Dagblad in 2012, 2021 and 2022 placing 1st in the Gouden Gazellen Award. i3D.net has been nominated for this award more than 7 times and won 3rd place in 2013. The company was placed in the ‘large-sized companies' category for the western region of The Netherlands.[20] [21]

  • 2012 FD Gazellen Award – Winner  
  • 2013 FD Gazellen Award – 3rd Place
  • 2016 FD Gazellen Award – Nominee
  • 2017 FD Gazellen Award – Nominee
  • 2018 FD Gazellen Award – Nominee
  • 2019 FD Gazellen Award – Nominee
  • 2020 FD Gazellen Award – Nominee
  • 2021 FD Gazellen Award – Winner
  • 2022 FD Gazellen Award – Winner  

Piet Heyn[edit]

i3D.net was one of the three finalists running for the Piet Heyn Award 2019.

  • 2019 Piet Heyn Award – Finalist[22]

Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship 2022[edit]

The company is placed a spot in the top 250 scaleups of 2022 by the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE).

  • 2022 ECE Top 250 scaleups of 2022[23]

Partners & sponsorships[edit]

i3D.net has estabilished partners and sponsorships to perform it's services.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Takahashi, Dean (29 September 2021). "Equinix teams up with Ubisoft's i3D.net to speed game performance". VentureBeat.
  2. ↑ Beighley, Lynn (29 October 2020). "Network Resilience Across The Globe: How i3D.net Supports Gamers Around The World". Opengear.
  3. ↑ "AS49544 - i3Dnet - i3D.net B.V, NL". IPIP.NET. 11 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "AS49544 i3Dnet - i3D.net B.V, NL | IPInsight.io". whois.ipinsight.io. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  5. ↑ "PeeringDB". www.peeringdb.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  6. ↑ "ASNs". ixpdb.euro-ix.net. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  7. ↑ Snijders, Job; Heasley, John; Schmidt, Martijn (June 2017). "RFC 8195 - Use of BGP Large Communities". Internet Engineering Task Force: 15 – via RFC.
  8. ↑ Snijders, Job; Heasley, John; Schmidt, Martijn (2017-06-30). "RFC 8195: Use of BGP Large Communities". IETF Datatracker. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  9. ↑ "i3D.net". Smartdc. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  10. ↑ Kokke, Pim (26 January 2023). "Smartdc levert restwarmte aan de Van Nelle Fabriek". Dutch Data Center Association (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  11. ↑ "The Smartdc Heat Pump Project". Smartdc. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  12. ↑ Wiedemeyer, Donald (1 May 2018). "Global Managed Hosting Provider i3D.net Acquires U.S. Hosting Company, MyInternetServices.com". Hosting Journalist.
  13. ↑ Humpries, Matthew (7 April 2021). "Ubisoft Acquires GameBlocks to Help Spot Cheats in Online Games". PC mag.
  14. ↑ Valentine, Rebekah (30 November 2018). "Ubisoft acquires server company i3D.net". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  15. ↑ Jaspers, Jos (2 December 2018). "Gaming Giant Ubisoft Buys Managed Hosting Company i3D.net". Hosting Journalist.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  16. ↑ "Ranking Technology Fast 50 2010 | Fast 50 | Deloitte Nederland". Deloitte Netherlands (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  17. ↑ "Ranking Technology Fast 50 2011 | Fast 50 | Deloitte Nederland". Deloitte Netherlands (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  18. ↑ "Ranking Technology Fast50 2012 | Fast 50 | Deloitte Nederland". Deloitte Netherlands (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  19. ↑ "Ranking Technology Fast 50 2013 | Fast 50 | Deloitte Nederland". Deloitte Netherlands (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  20. ↑ "Dit zijn de 100 snelste FD Gazellen van 2022". FD.nl (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  21. ↑ "i3D.net viert 20 jaar innovatie in hosting". Emerce (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  22. ↑ "SMA Piet Heyn Award 2019". SMA (in Nederlands). 29 April 2020. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  23. ↑ "Top 250 Scaleups 2022". Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  24. ↑ Kamphuis, Joey (2020-11-19). "Netherlands joins forces in CiC". NDIX. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  25. ↑ Services, Colt Technology (2021-05-26). "Colt enables i3D.net gaming and enterprise customers to be prepared for a high bandwidth, low latency future". Colt Technology Services. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  26. ↑ "i3D.net and Dell EMC PowerEdge Technology". TechRepublic. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  27. ↑ "Sponsoren von Debian-Spiegeln". www.debian.org. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  28. ↑ Cazemier, Michiel. "i3D.net - Dutch Cloud Community" (in Nederlands). Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  29. ↑ "Companies Dutch Lounge GDC San Francisco 2023". Dutch Games Association. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  30. ↑ "i3D.net: Low latency gaming in the Middle East". DE-CIX – we make interconnection easy. Anywhere. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  31. ↑ Verband, eco. "i3D.net B.V." eco. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  32. ↑ "i3D.NET JOINS GREENCLOUDS' ECOSYSTEM". www.persberichten.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  33. ↑ "i3D.net Case Study | Juniper Networks US". www.juniper.net. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  34. ↑ "Kingston neemt rma-stress weg bij I3D.net". www.computable.be (in Nederlands). 4 September 2020. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  35. ↑ "Our Users - Looking Glass". looking-glass.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  36. ↑ "MariaDB and i3D.net Partnership Unlocks the Next Performance Level for Enterprises". MariaDB. 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  37. ↑ "Keeping i3D.NET Undefeated By Downtime - Opengear". opengear.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  38. ↑ "i3D.net Increases Agility With FlashArray | Pure Storage". www.purestorage.com. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  39. ↑ "Quad9 Bolsters its DNS Coverage With i3D.net's Global Network". PRWeb. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  40. ↑ "Efficient backbone connections for i3D.net". Relined. Retrieved 2023-03-13.

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