Supported 433,000 web streams during the NASA's Return to Flight, four times the previous NASA record set on July 4 for the Deep Impact collision with a comet.

VeriCenter, Inc., a provider of managed hosting and IT services, yesterday announced that it supported 433,000 simultaneous Web streams during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Return to Flight, four times the previous NASA record set on July 4 for the Deep Impact collision with a comet.

VeriCenter provides IT infrastructure support for NASA, including server capacity, bandwidth, storage and other managed services. VeriCenter offers a 100 percent network availability guarantee and managed services that can scale rapidly as NASA's infrastructure needs change.

"We're delighted for the opportunity to support NASA in this historic Return to Flight," said Gray Hall, President and CEO, VeriCenter. "As Space Shuttle Discovery continues its mission to the International Space Station, VeriCenter will help space buffs across the planet stay tuned in to the latest developments."

For the Return to Flight mission, outbound data traffic clocked in at 50 Gigabits per second, the highest ever for a NASA Web portal. The standard traffic rate is 150 Megabits per second. So far, 20 percent of Web traffic for Return to Flight has come from outside the U.S.