Web Hosting News – Arlington, VA – Acting on the popularity of video sharing in content publishing and Internet marketing, WebNet Hosting now provides superior cloud hosting and media streaming software to better accommodate the hosting market. A WebNet source confirms that these solutions for quicker and better quality video streaming are the only way for content creators to effectively stream fine video to their users. Progressive cloud hosting plans coupled with the right video streaming software are essential to video streaming in today’s market, and WebNet Hosting has developed a plan to better fit the needs of their customers.

As complex media becomes a more prevalent mode of information dissemination, content publishers need more sophisticated ways of streaming live or on-demand video over the web. WebNet’s recent utilization of the cloud to host videos provides optimal results for users accessing such models of streaming entertainment. With the cloud, extremely high quality, reliable video streaming is established—ensuring that users stay on a site to see the video and content all the way through.

Incorporating media hosting on the cloud into most of their advanced hosting solutions enables WebNet Hosting to supply their customers with a more comprehensive and successful hosting plan. Without relying on hardware, video streaming becomes faster and more efficient. Compromising the load time of your pages is no longer a pitfall of incorporating video streaming on a website or blog when your content is hosted in the cloud—regardless if you are streaming in 320p or 1080p.

WebNet now offers an array of solid options for streaming on the cloud: Installing Wowza Media Server on a client’s VPS cloud hosting solution allows for nice quality, live and on demand video streaming. WebNet can also supply clients with the multiple-use video streaming media server, Red5: a great source for small and large streaming projects.

Along with Wowza and Red5, WebNet Hosting is now a leading supplier of SHOUTcast audio streaming software. Not only does SHOUTcast provide quality Internet radio streaming live, it offers on demand options as well. With the better performance of a cloud hosting solution, the software works at a higher rate with clean and tidy audio playback for your stream.

About WebNet Hosting
Based in Arlington, VA, WebNet Hosting has served as a leading global hosting provider for over a decade. The company continues their record as a premier source for online media streaming through cloud hosting ventures incorporating the latest in effective streaming technology. Along with optimal fully managed dedicated server hosting solutions, WebNet Hosting supplies clients with a variety of other hosting services to fit the unique needs of an organization or individual seeking a strong online presence.

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Web Hosting News – REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and HONG KONG – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has extended its global trading network into Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers in Hong Kong and Tokyo. The extension of NYSE Technologies’ Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI®) will allow current and prospective customers within these facilities to directly connect from Hong Kong and Tokyo to services offered by NYSE Technologies and access a range of financial markets, market data and post-trade services.

With these deployments, NYSE Technologies now offers direct access to SFTI® Access Centers inside eight Equinix data centers in seven key markets around the world including New York, Chicago, Singapore, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Highlights / Key Facts

SFTI® is a robust network, providing over 1,300 financial market participants with a single point of connectivity to multiple exchanges, market centers and content service providers around the world. Designed to be the industry’s most secure and resilient network, SFTI® is specifically built for electronic trading and market data traffic thus enabling firms to reduce time-to-market, improve performance and significantly lower the cost of trading infrastructure.

Along with its current deployment with Equinix in Singapore, the new SFTI® Access Center at Equinix in Hong Kong and the direct access in Tokyo will enable financial market participants to further take advantage of the continually growing financial ecosystem of both Equinix and NYSE Technologies in Asia. Access to these Centers will also expand options for NYSE Technologies’ customers in Asia to have a simplified trading architecture with access to best of breed connectivity options to minimize latency, enhance performance and manage costs.

Equinix is home to a large ecosystem of financial market participants including exchanges, trading platforms, buy and sell side companies and service providers. Through setting up new Access Centers in this environment, NYSE Technologies is now able to reach the rich financial ecosystem of market participants that exists in Equinix’s Hong Kong and Tokyo IBX data center, who seek access to SFTI®. As a result, Equinix’s customers will benefit from a greater choice of consolidated, secure, low latency access to other Asian, European and North American markets and partners to support cross-territory trading.

Equinix’s presence in the top 16 financial markets worldwide gives NYSE Technologies the flexibility and agility to increase its speed-to-market, scale in existing markets or enter new markets at a rapid pace to address the growth in electronic trading.

About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,000 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 31 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. www.equinix.com

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Web Hosting News – SAN FRANCISCO – Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center solutions, today announced that it has contracted with Uptime Institute to achieve Tier III certification for 20 of its new data center projects worldwide. To date, five newly completed Turn-Key FlexSM data centers have received Tier III certification, including two projects in Sydney and two in Melbourne, Australia, and one data center in Trumbull, Connecticut.

“As a global developer, operator and long-term owner of enterprise-quality data centers, we have long since designed our Turn-Key Flex solution to meet rigorous engineering and reliability standards,” said Jim Smith, chief technology officer for Digital Realty. “Working with Uptime Institute to obtain Tier III certifications for these new projects further demonstrates our commitment to meeting these high standards on behalf of our customers.”

“We are very pleased to be working with Digital Realty, which has made this significant investment in the Tier III certification process. Many providers claim to build ‘tier III’ data centers, but few have the discipline to go through the rigorous process of seeking actual certification,” added Julian Kudritski, chief operating officer of Uptime Institute. “The devil is truly in the details, including fuel systems, design temperatures for extreme weather conditions, as well as the integration of electrical and mechanical systems. Digital Realty has made this commitment because it understands its customers’ needs for highly reliable, resilient data center solutions that are designed to operate under the most challenging conditions today and in the future.”

Rigorous uptime requirements and long-term viability are usually the reasons for selecting strategic solutions found in Tier III site infrastructure. Tier III site infrastructure solutions also have an effective life beyond the current IT requirement and are typically utilized by organizations that know the cost of a disruption—in terms of actual dollars—and the impact to market share and continued mission imperatives.

Uptime Institute created the standard Tier Classification System as a means to effectively evaluate data center infrastructure in terms of a business’ requirements for system availability. The Tier Classification System provides the data center industry with a consistent method to compare typically unique, customized facilities based on expected site infrastructure performance, or uptime. Furthermore, Tiers enable companies to align their data center infrastructure investment with business goals specific to growth and technology strategies.

Digital Realty’s Turn-Key FlexSM solution is a modular approach to delivering secure, enterprise quality data center space to meet customers’ just-in-time requirements. Designed to provide maximum flexibility, reliability and efficiency, each Turn-Key Flex facility comes fully commissioned with its own dedicated electrical and mechanical infrastructure. Utilizing Digital Realty’s proprietary POD Architecture® and extensive supply chain, Digital Realty’s next generation Turn-Key Flex data center solution is designed for the future and ready today.

About Digital Realty
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. focuses on delivering customer driven data center solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost effective facilities that meet each customer’s unique data center needs. Digital Realty’s customers include domestic and international companies across multiple industry verticals ranging from information technology and Internet enterprises, to manufacturing and financial services. Digital Realty’s 122 properties, excluding three properties held as investments in unconsolidated joint ventures, comprise approximately 22.7 million square feet as of April 26, 2013, including 2.6 million square feet of space held for development. Digital Realty’s portfolio is located in 32 markets throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Additional information about Digital Realty is included in the Company Overview, which is available on the Investors page of Digital Realty’s website at http://www.digitalrealty.com.

About Uptime Institute
Uptime Institute, an independent division of the 451 Group, is an unbiased and third-party research, education, and consulting organization focused on improving data center performance and efficiency. The Institute serves all stakeholders of the data center industry, including enterprise and third-party operators, manufacturers, providers, and engineers. Uptime Institute Professional Services is the data center management and engineering consulting arm of Uptime Institute. It delivers due diligence assessments and Certifications of site infrastructure and site management in accordance with the Tier and Operational Sustainability Standards. Serving clients worldwide, Uptime Institute Professional Services delivers consulting, Certifications, and Accreditations to facilities and professionals in 50 countries. For additional information, see http://uptimeinstitute.org and http://professionalservices.uptimeinstitute.com.

The 451 Group is a leading IT analyst and data organization focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The 451 Group also operates Tier1 Research, which analyzes the financial and industry implications of developments impacting public and private companies within the hosting, communications, and Internet infrastructure sectors; TheInfoPro, a leading advisory and research firm that provides real-world perspectives on the customer and market dynamics of the enterprise information technology landscape by using a unique research methodology harnessing the collective knowledge and insights of leading IT organizations worldwide; and ChangeWave Research, which specializes in identifying and quantifying change in corporate IT purchasing demand, industry and company trends, as well as consumer spending behavior.

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Web Hosting News – Jelastic offers a fundamentally new approach to Java and PHP hosting: no need to learn custom systems or recode applications in order to deploy. Jelastic is the first cloud platform that can run and scale any Java or PHP application without any code changes.

The newly launched Jelastic 1.9.1 has a number of new features and improvements.

- Regulating the sequence of balance charging
- Config manager improvement
- PostgreSQL 9.2.4 support
- CRON Scheduler
- Scheduling backups for end user DBs
- Cutting database tables
- Notification about running out of resources (Mem, Disk, CPU)
- NetBeans IDE Plugin
- Generating direct URL for solution deploy
- Software Stacks Versions

Users of Jelastic 1.9.1 get access for each node configuration files and can choose to configure all the servers together or just a specific one.

Dmitry Sotnikov, Jelastic COO said, “Jelastic 1.9.1 features CRON scheduler, which allows users to schedule jobs to run periodically at certain times or dates. They can also run programs at a specified time with a help of scheduler, which receives instructions and performs any tasks following derived scenarios. Users can also backup databases or specific tables right from the configuration files. Jelastic assures that all data is being saved periodically and can be restored or reused.”

Another new feature of Jelastic 1.9.1 is a notification about running out of resources. When the traffic grows an application requests more resources for normal work. If the limits selected are too low, this can lead to the failure in the app performance. For such cases the notification about running out of resources is implemented.

Now even more software stacks are supported including PostgreSQL 9.2.4 which provides:

- synchronous and cascading replication
- unlogged tables, per-column
- collations, and much more

The PosGIS module has also been enabled. It is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.

Jelastic 1.9.1 is already available through a selection of web hosting providers world-wide. To see the list of partners, please visit http://jelastic.com/partners or sign up now for free at www.jelastic.com.

Release notes for 1.9.1 can be viewed at http://jelastic.com/docs/release-notes-191

About Jelastic
Jelastic, Inc. is based in Palo Alto, California, and offers a PHP and Java hosting platform for, gamers, application designers, developers and web hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) offering designed especially for web hosting companies to deploy and offer to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java and PHP applications and allocates server resources, thus delivering true next generation Java and PHP cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at http://jelastic.com.

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Web Hosting News – CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – SIGNiX, a leading digital signature provider, announced a strategic partnership with Computime, a trusted sales and distribution firm with significant experience in the electronic signature marketplace. The relationship will expand SIGNiX’s reach through Computime’s relationships in more than 110 countries around the world.

“Computime has a tremendous track record of marketing and selling signature pads and has dominated the business for many years,” said Jay Jumper, president and CEO of SIGNiX. “Our partnership will strengthen our position in the growing e-signature market.”

SIGNiX’s digital signature products allow customers to send documents for signature online, improving efficiency and lowering costs without sacrificing security. Computime will expand the reach of SIGNiX’s online signature capabilities by using knowledge gained from years of experience selling signature pads to a wide range of industries and markets.

Both companies have established reputations in the e-signature industry, and their partnership comes at a time of rapid growth in the industry. In fact, a study from a leading analyst firm shows that the e-signature market increased 48 percent from 2011 to 2012.

“We’ve had a long, successful relationship with the owners and executive management team at SIGNiX,” said Josh Levey, CEO of Computime. “We’re excited about this partnership because of our compatible business values and the mutual respect developed through the years we have worked together. We’re excited to take these products to market.”

About SIGNiX
SIGNiX, headquartered in Chattanooga, Tenn., makes signing documents online safe and secure. SIGNiX offers the only independently verifiable cloud-based digital signature solution, which combines convenience with top-level security. SIGNiX’s products help the world’s leading companies become more efficient, decrease risk and boost profits.

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Web Hosting News – London, UNITED KINGDOM – euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), a pan-European bandwidth infrastructure provider, announced it has built a diverse route from London to Basildon (NYSE Euronext), supporting a growing connectivity requirement in the market. In December 2012, euNetworks launched its leading ultra low latency fibre route linking Basildon to Frankfurt. Since that time, euNetworks has leveraged this fibre route to support the many customer requests for a diverse route linking London to Basildon, with this connectivity service now live and supporting customer’s bandwidth requirements from 100Mbps Ethernet through 10Gbps Wavelengths.

euNetworks offers market leading latency performance from all major capital markets across Europe, enabling customers with direct and high bandwidth connectivity via the euTrade service portfolio.

At the core of euNetworks capability as a bandwidth infrastructure provider, is its 13 fibre based city networks owned and operated across Western Europe. euNetworks’ London metropolitan network enables customers to connect from their office building, a key data centre or exchange, through to NYSE Euronext with either Ethernet or Wavelengths services. This new route combines euNetworks’ city based bandwidth expertise with its long haul ultra low latency network platform, delivering more route options to this important market.

“Basildon is a critical trading location with growing importance to the financial community,” said David Selby, Vice President of Product and Strategy at euNetworks. “Being able to offer a diverse route out to Basildon from central London combined with our leading long haul ultra low latency capability to Frankfurt offers our customers yet another compelling reason to choose euNetworks to deliver their connectivity needs. Diversity in this market is increasingly important as customers require both low latency and high availability to fulfil their network requirements.”

About euNetworks
euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23:SI) is a bandwidth infrastructure provider, owning and operating 13 fibre based metropolitan networks across Europe connected with a high capacity intercity backbone covering 38 cities in 9 countries. The Company offers a portfolio of metropolitan and long haul services including Colocation, Dark Fibre, Metro Wavelengths, Wavelengths, Ethernet, and Internet. Enterprise and carrier customers benefit from euNetworks’ unique inventory of fibre and duct based assets that are tailored to fulfil their high bandwidth needs. euNetworks Group Limited is headquartered in London and publicly listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. For further information please visit www.eunetworks.com.

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Web Hosting News – Dallas, TX – Global data center services provider CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE) is pleased to introduce the CyrusOne National Internet Exchange (IX), an on-net platform deployed across CyrusOne facilities in Texas and Arizona.

The CyrusOne National IX delivers interconnection across states and between metro-enabled sites within the CyrusOne facility footprint and beyond. The platform enables high-performance, low-cost data transfer and accessibility for customers and unites 12 state-of-the-art CyrusOne sites in Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Phoenix, with other locations coming online soon.

“With the launch of our Texas IX earlier this year, and with the recent opening of our data center site in Phoenix, CyrusOne has completed the important first steps in building out the CyrusOne National IX,” said Josh Snowhorn, vice president and general manager of Interconnection for CyrusOne. “No matter what kind of scalability our customers choose, the National IX will deliver robust, national connectivity and enable content and ISP peering that brings the heart of the Internet closer to CyrusOne data centers. Enterprises benefit from core access to the most powerful networks in the world—opening the door to facility-to-facility interconnection at costs and performance metrics that were previously not available to them.”

CyrusOne customers have the ability to “mix-and-match” solutions to unite top-tier data centers within and across metro areas for both production and disaster recovery needs. The CyrusOne National IX provides customer freedom of choice when building out capacity to transport large amounts of data. Customers may choose CyrusOne’s bandwidth marketplace, its Internet Exchange platform, or cross-connect to cloud services. Customers using the CyrusOne National IX have the ability to connect between CyrusOne facilities region-to-region at greatly reduced wholesale cost via terabit-class capacity. This capability can also provide cross-connection with any on-net third-party facility within metro regions for a minimal charge.

CyrusOne remains ahead of the multi-site deployment curve by continuously anticipating needs and changes while aggressively building and integrating data centers throughout the U.S.,” said Snowhorn. “We are excited about the opportunities associated with our new CyrusOne National IX.”

Best-in-Class Facilities and Networks
CyrusOne specializes in highly reliable enterprise data center colocation, engineering facilities with the highest power redundancy (2N architecture), and power-density infrastructure required to deliver

excellent availability. Earlier this year, CyrusOne launched in Texas the first statewide Internet Exchange (IX) in the United States, connecting all major sites in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The CyrusOne Texas IX also enables customers to connect to their own enterprise-owned facilities and to third-party facilities to seamlessly engage the full ecosystem of business partners, content providers, networks, carriers, Internet service providers, and Ethernet buyers and sellers.

CyrusOne has designed 24 carrier-neutral data center facilities across the United States, Europe, and Asia that give customers the flexibility and scale to perfectly match their specific growth needs. The data center provider is renowned for exceptional and personalized customer service and for building enduring customer relationships and high customer satisfaction levels. Customers include nine of the global Fortune 20 companies and more than 100 of the Fortune 1000.

For more information about CyrusOne, call 1-866-CYRUSONE (1-866-297-7663) or visit www.cyrusone.com.

About CyrusOne
CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE) specializes in highly reliable enterprise-class, carrier-neutral data center properties. The company provides mission-critical data center facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of IT infrastructure for more than 500 customers, including nine of the global Fortune 20 and more than 100 of the Fortune 1000 companies.

CyrusOne’s data center offerings provide the flexibility, reliability, and security that enterprise customers require and are delivered through a tailored, customer service-focused platform designed to foster long-term relationships. CyrusOne’s internet interconnection platform provides robust connectivity options for enterprises, content, and telecommunications companies. CyrusOne is committed to full transparency in communication, management, and service delivery throughout its 24 data centers worldwide.

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Web Hosting News – Raleigh, NC – ViUX adds a new “Enterprise” plan to MightyCall Receptionist virtual phone service for small businesses and entrepreneurs who need to project a professional business image.

MightyCall Reception (Enterprise) is $50 per month for up to five toll-free or local phone numbers, including optional vanity number(s) – and supports both unlimited minutes and users. The “Enterprise” plan is a recent addition to the prior “Entrepreneur” and “Unlimited” plans of MightyCall Receptionist, which are $10 and $30 per month (respectively).

ViUX has added the Enterprise plan to MightyCall Receptionist to better support those needing multiple phone lines, as it was noticed that this was a common need for many that were seeking the new virtual phone service from ViUX.

ViUX along with Infratel, its partner for Mightycall Receptionist, are also reviewing other possible feature and functionality additions to further improve the virtual phone service based upon customer feedback.

All three plan levels of the service are completely integrated into the ViUX control panel at: hsp.viux.com/cp/ – so the services can be managed directly at this location and/or from mightycall.com.

MightyCall Receptionist can be ordered from ViUX as a stand-alone service, or bundled along with Shared Cloud, Private Cloud, or Dedicated Server Hosting.

The service can be ordered online from http://mightycall.viux.com – and services are provisioned automatically within minutes of order submission. Customers can then login and pick their number(s), setup rules for call handling and routing, record greetings, etc. Existing phone numbers can even be ported over to the system for a one-time fee of $35 per line.

MightyCall Receptionist was originally released by ViUX in April 2013 after partnering with Infratel and working together on a seamless integration into the billing and control panel system (Parallels Business Automation) used by ViUX.

About ViUX Systems, Inc.
ViUX Systems (@ViUX) is a privately held North Carolina Corporation established in 2003 – with the mission to provide individuals and businesses of all types and sizes with the Web / Internet Technology and Software Solutions required to offer their products and services to the world… with Vision, Understanding, & eXperience in Web Services.

About Infratel
Infratel (@MightyCall) makes solutions that help businesses deliver the best “Contact Us” experience to their customers. Infratel solutions help entrepreneurs, fast growing startups and well-established businesses create a professional phone presence, improve their ability to connect with customers, and increase the efficiency of call centers. Infratel has more than 1,000 customers worldwide and helped customers manage 1 billion+ minutes of calls in 2012. Infratel is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Seattle, WA.

About MightyCall
The MightyCall SaaS services enable small businesses and entrepreneurs to establish a professional phone presence and create the best possible “Contact Us” experience for their customers. MightyCall Receptionist is a feature rich virtual phone system that provides toll-free and local phone numbers, 24-hour auto-attendant, smart call routing, and forwarding of calls to existing phone lines including mobile, home, and office numbers. Small businesses can take advantage of enterprise quality voice services through an affordable monthly subscription.

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Web Hosting News – SAN JOSE, Calif., – Cisco and Telefonica Global Solutions have successfully completed a long-distance 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) technology trial intended to increase available bandwidth, simplify network operations, reduce capital expenses, and help user in a new generation of consumer and business services.

Telefonica and Cisco completed the Internet protocol over wavelength-division multiplexing (IPoDWDM) trial using integrated coherent 100 Gbps optical interfaces in the Cisco® CRS Carrier Routing System (CRS), to prepare Telefonica’s network for growth and services. IPoDWDM is an advanced technology that enables high-speed Internet services over existing DWDM networks, thereby eliminating the need for network upgrades and accelerating the introduction of new higher-speed, Internet services.

With the explosive growth of IP traffic driven by video, mobile and cloud services and business applications, service providers are looking for ways to increase network capacity while also increasing network availability and reliability to deliver Next Generation Internet experiences. The recently completed trial used Cisco’s CRS core router generating a standards-compliant 100 Gbps “alien wavelength” directly into Telefonica’s existing submarine network between Boca Raton, FL., in the USA and Puerto Rico. The total distance was a record-setting 4,000 kilometers (nearly 2,500 miles). The underwater round trip span consisted of DWDM transport systems from multiple vendors – the longest such IPoDWDM test ever completed. Additional shorter tests using only terrestrial fibers were also successful.

Integrating the DWDM components into the router eliminates the need for a costly external transponder. Furthermore, Cisco’s nLight™ coherent technology eliminates the need for additional dispersion compensation units and electrical and optical regeneration equipment that cannot be added to an existing submarine cable links. This helps further reduce capital and operational expenses.

IPoDWDM helps service providers to increase operational efficiencies and realize significant cost savings in power and real estate through equipment reduction while deploying an eco-friendly solution that helps reduce the network carbon footprint.

About Telefonica Global Solutions
Telefonica Global Solutions manages globally the multinational, wholesale and roaming business within the Telefonica Group. Global Solutions delivers integrated fixed, mobile and IT services to some of the world’s top multinationals and corporations. It also provides global telecommunication services for fixed and mobile carriers, ISPs and content providers. Telefonica Global Solutions develops an integrated and competitive portfolio for carriers and corporations that include international voice, IP, bandwidth capacity, satellite services, mobility and global solutions, with service reach in more than 170 countries. Global Solutions is a multicultural organisation, with more than 1400 employees, working in over 40 countries and speaking more than 15 languages.
www.telefonica.com
www.globalsolutions.telefonica.com

About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. For ongoing news, please go to http://thenetwork.cisco.com.

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Web Hosting News – REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. and FRANKFURT — Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, today announced it has expanded its relationship with DE-CIX, one of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges, with the installation of new Points of Presence (PoPs) in three Equinix data centers in Frankfurt – Equinix FR4 and FR5 (now called Campus Kleyer) and FR2.

Highlights / Key Facts

• The new DE-CIX infrastructure follows uninterrupted growth in port and data volume demand from its members, and is the first phase in a higher-capacity network architecture for the Internet Exchange. In addition to providing increased colocation capacity for DE-CIX members, the new PoPs will offer enhanced performance and peering opportunities for network, content delivery and cloud service providers in Equinix’s Frankfurt data centers.

• The move is the latest in a series of major steps forward in network density and capacity for Equinix in Frankfurt. In 2012, Equinix acquired Frankfurt-based ancotel GmbH, one of the world’s most interconnected sites. Since then, ancotel’s Frankfurt data center has been renamed Equinix FR5. It has been linked with Equinix FR4 via 864 fiber 3 km resilient connection delivered and priced as standard cross connects, to create Campus Kleyer.
• Campus Kleyer offers interconnection to more than 300 networks and 150 leading enterprises, cloud and IT service providers. A significant proportion of current DE-CIX traffic originates from Campus Kleyer customers, so the deployment of these new PoPs will ensure continuity of service and increase peering capacity for these customers. The deployment of a DE-CIX PoP in FR2 enables peering with the 200+ financial services firms already located within Equinix Frankfurt.
• With more than 7,100 physical cross-connects, Campus Kleyer is one of the most densely interconnected Equinix locations in the world. Customers have instant Layer 2 access to millions of German and international locations, as well as access to one of the world’s largest SDH Exchanges. Colocation capacity in the 10,500 square meter campus is also growing rapidly with ongoing phased build-outs on both sites, making it an ideal long-term location for content customers to connect, peer and grow.

About DE-CIX
Founded in 1995, DE-CIX in Frankfurt is the leading operator of Ethernet-based carrier and ISP interconnection worldwide. DE-CIX facilitates the exchange of IP traffic between networks through a distributed, failsafe and scalable infrastructure in various metro markets across Germany and in the Middle East. This includes broadband networks, hosting providers, content providers and cloud computing players. More than 500 ISPs from over 50 countries use DE-CIX to handle a large fraction of their Internet traffic and make DE-CIX the world’s largest interconnection facility that supports peering. DE-CIX’s customer base includes the world’s leading players, such as 1&1, Akamai, China Telecom, Facebook, Google and Telefonica.

The company began its international growth with the takeover in 2012 of the operations of UAE-IX in Dubai, UAE, the country’s first carrier-neutral interconnection and peering platform. DE-CIX is a wholly owned subsidiary of eco e.V., the world’s largest Internet industry association. Further information is available at: www.de-cix.net.

About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,000 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 31 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. www.equinix.com

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