Zona, which provides software and services for running online games, announced that it has signed a deal with Taiwan's biggest game service.
The company will provide its Terrazona server software to Gamania Digital Entertainment, said Monte Singman, CEO of Redwood City, Calif.-based Zona. Gamania runs the Taiwan version of Lineage, the popular multiplayer online game, under a partnership with game developer NCsoft. Approximately 4 percent of the population of South Korea plays the game, according to various estimates, although the U.S. version has yet to attract a significant audience.
Terrazona makes more efficient use of server resources, Singman said, allowing more players to log in on a single server and providing support for "failover clustering," in which one server can instantly take over for another in case of equipment failure.
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