ANET Merges with Expedient Communications.ANET Becomes Part of Country's Largest All-Ethernet Network, Provides Chicago with Unprecedented Connectivity Capabilities CHICAGO -- ANET is pleased to announce it has merged with sister company Expedient ex·pe·di·ent adj. 1. Appropriate to a purpose. 2. a. Serving to promote one's interest: was merciful only when mercy was expedient. b. Communications. With the country's largest all-Ethernet network, Expedient provides High-Speed, IP Transit and Private Transport via Ethernet to some of the country's largest Commercial Businesses, Institutions and Public Entities. Together, ANET and Expedient will offer customers business class data center options that stretch across the country via facilities with more than 200 employees in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore, South Florida, Boston, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. . These facilities enable co-location and a variety of managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality including seamless multi-city business continuity, remote city data backup and disaster recovery planning. The merger will bring these services to Chicago along with an expanded range of high-bandwidth data network connectivity options including Ethernet Anywhere, a leading edge, scalable connectivity solution that takes established Ethernet technology and extends it beyond the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. environment into a WAN. Charlie Watkins, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Continental Broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). explains the significance of this merger, "Expedient and ANET combined offer one of the strongest connectivity options for businesses in the Midwest. This merger melds ANET into one of the country's largest and most reliable connectivity solutions. ANET will be transformed by this merger. We're glad to bring this class of service to Chicago where we are confident the business community will benefit from the leading edge technology brought to the table by Expedient." In support of its expanded capabilities, ANET will add to its data center at 216 West Jackson and is likely to, in the near-term, add additional facility sites downtown and in the suburbs. New facilities, in addition to the expanded services offered through Expedient, will make ANET one of the Midwest's largest providers of business-class connectivity and managed data solutions. ANET is also going to name a new general manager who will be based at the downtown Chicago facility. Both ANET and Expedient are part of Continental Broadband, which is wholly owned by Landmark Communications Landmark Communications is a privately held media company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia and specializing in cable television, broadcast television, print publishing, and internet publishing. . To learn more about Expedient and Ethernet Anywhere, please log on to www.expedient.com, www.ethernetanywhere.com or call 866-276-2973. For more information about ANET please call 312-577-2250 or visit the company website at www.anet.com. |
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