@Road Enhances U.S. Infrastructure for LocationSmart Services With Hot Standby Data Center in Philadelphia.Business Editors FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2000 @Road(SM) (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), an Internet information services See IIS. company that provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile commerce, Thursday announced its data center in Philadelphia as a disaster recovery and future load-balancing site. This second facility continues to enhance the domestic infrastructure for services to be delivered over the @Road LocationSmart(TM) network, combining the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. West Coast data centers with that of the East Coast. The hot standby A hardware device that is connected to the computer or computer complex and remains powered on. It is ready to take over immediately if the primary unit fails. A hot standby may refer to a complete computer system; for example, a standby server, or a component in a computer such as a capabilities at the East Coast center complement existing backup capabilities of the @Road network infrastructure, minimizing any disruption to the customer or loss of data in the event of a service interruption. Transparent load-balancing capabilities are expected to further enhance service delivery by dynamically optimizing the use of each data center, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Tom Allen For other persons of the same name, see Thomas Allen. Thomas H. (Tom) Allen (April 16 1945– ) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Maine's At-large congressional district (map). He is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008. , @Road vice president of technology. "Our goal for the second data center was to build an infrastructure designed to provide our subscribers with a highly reliable, fault-tolerant network," Allen said. "With the addition of the second data center, the @Road network infrastructure provides network redundancy to allow for backup and 24/7 operations in the event of a system outage." Designed to mirror the primary West Coast data center, the new facility is housed in a major telecommunications complex offering high-speed Internet See broadband. connectivity, redundant fiber optic cabling and access to advanced wireless technology. The @Road data center incorporates several servers with hardware from Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc., Compaq Computer Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., and is located in Philadelphia. About @Road Based in Fremont, @Road is an Internet information services company that provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile commerce. Its LocationSmart technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technologies with the Internet into a fully integrated network that supports the delivery of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for businesses, and mobile professionals. For additional information, visit the Web site at www.atroad.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, @Road's historical and future losses, limited operating history, the infancy of the wireless data industry where there is no established market for @Road products and services, ability of @Road to adapt to rapid technological change, reliance by @Road on a limited number of customers and dependence of @Road on wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road prospectus dated Sept. 28, 2000 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: @Road, the @Road logo, and LocationSmart are trademarks and/or service marks of At Road Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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