The Problem

All gamers have experienced the frustration and competitive challenges of a poor connection to their game server. The basic design of the Internet is often the cause of a poor quality, slow connection. Using the standard Internet, it is not unusual for data packets server to make as many as 20 network hops between a gamer's computer and a gameserver.

The Internet is a vast framework of connections. Your packets travel among various networks throughout the world on facilities owned and operated by many different companies. With each "hop" a packet takes and each transition from one company to the next, latency is added. To make it worse, your gaming packets are fighting for priority with everything from email to web surfing to music downloading to peer-to-peer file trading.

The Solution - A New Network Model

The GameRail Network was specifically designed to cut latency and improve your gaming experience. The key to the GameRail model is a high-speed dedicated private backbone combined with massive local interconnection. Traffic gets on the GameRail Network from your computer as quickly as possible... before it reaches the public Internet. To accomplish this, we interconnect with the Internet access providers in each city so that they route gaming traffic directly to us instead of lumping it in with all the rest of their Internet traffic which gets routed haphazardly from location to location.

We also cross-connect to as many public game servers as possible. A game server must be connected to our network and registered as a GameRail-enabled server in order to reach it across our network. We already have thousands and thousands of game servers connected and are adding more daily.

The design of the GameRail Network allows gaming traffic to get on the private network in the gamer's home city and then transit over our private network all the way to the site of the game server. GameRail cuts the number of network hops dramatically and consequently significantly reduces latency and jitter. And because the data stays on the network end-to-end, GameRail is able to optimize the flow of the traffic, even further improving the connection. By offering significantly improved connectivity to computer gamers' computers, GameRail redefines the expectations of what constitutes a quality online gaming experience.