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Giganews

Giganews is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Giganews rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

Key takeaways

Giganews belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Giganews to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Giganews from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include RCN Corporation, BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications. In 2008 Giganews acquired Supernews. In 2010, Giganews began offering users VPN and cloud storage access ("VyprVPN" and "Dump Truck", respectively) via its parent company, Golden Frog. Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries. Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia, AMS-IX and NL-IX in The Netherlands, DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Germany, and LINX in London, United Kingdom. In late 2008, Giganews' bandwidth capacity at AMS-IX increased from 40 Gbit/s to 80 Gbit/s. Giganews offers more than three years of article retention in binary groups and eight years in text groups. This results in more than nine petabytes (9000 terabytes) of storage.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Giganews

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Giganews claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Giganews before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Giganews ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Giganews

In research: Giganews appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Giganews in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Giganews is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Broadband, Internet service providers of the United States, Usenet servers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Giganews outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Giganews in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Giganews means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Giganews out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Giganews in simple terms?

Why does Giganews matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Giganews?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Giganews.