BT Ignite Content Hosting Selects Portal Software for pan-European Rating and Billing Platform; Leading European Web Hosting Player to Use Infranet Across Europe.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2001 BT Ignite Content Hosting announced today that it has chosen Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. Inc.'s (Nasdaq:PRSF PRSF Presidio of San Francisco (US National Park Service) PRSF Peoples Republic of San Francisco ) Infranet(R) platform for the rating and billing functionality to support its pan-European content hosting business. Portal's business strategy for the global IP market builds on experience gained worldwide where Portal's real-time software is the leading customer management and billing platform for IP-based businesses. BT Ignite Content Hosting is the hosting arm of BT's international broadband and Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) data and solutions business. BT Ignite provides a complete communications portfolio to corporate and wholesale customers anywhere in the world and has twice the broadband reach in Europe of any competitor. BT Ignite Content Hosting has an extensive network of Internet data centers and with further expansion planned it is fast becoming a leading player in the web-hosting marketplace. Len Tyson, Vice President Strategy and Business Development at BT Ignite Content Hosting said, "This deal moves BT Ignite Content Hosting one step nearer to realizing its goal of becoming a leader in the e-commerce and Internet market with its partners. BT Ignite Content Hosting offers customers world-class Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , content delivery and applications management, which are enhanced by partnering with best of breed vendors, such as Portal." "We are very pleased to be working with BT Ignite Content Hosting," said Steve Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
BT's broadband and Internet Protocol (IP) data and solutions business has been created to provide a complete communications portfolio to corporate and wholesale customers in all major cities throughout the world. It is the first communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. to commit to delivering the entire IP value chain -- from core networks and Internet connectivity through to e-commerce consultancy and solutions with a unique blend of content hosting, application service provision, systems integration and outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. capabilities. BT Ignite is already outstripping its nearest competitors in terms of traditional measures of route kilometers, number of hosting centers, local sales and service support teams and depth of country coverage. In Europe it already has twice the broadband reach of its competitors and will be able to deliver its portfolio to over 250 European cities over its own networks by the end of 2001 and to all the world's commercial centers through BT's partners, alliance members and subsidiaries. About BT Ignite Content Hosting BT Ignite Content Hosting offers a range of web hosting application and networking services, utilizing a world class Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. . The data centers can service a wide range of companies from major corporations to application service providers and other Internet-centric businesses. Internet data centers house the hardware, software and high speed communication connections required by customers, allowing them to focus on their core business and meet growing requirements for e-commerce. About Portal Software, Inc. Portal Software, Inc., is building business infrastructure for the Internet. Based in Cupertino, Calif., Portal is the leading provider of customer management and billing software for Internet and emerging, next-generation communications services. The company's real-time solution enables service providers to manage customers, support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services and collect money. Portal's customers include Qwest Communications
(2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, Inktomi, Deutsche Telekom's T-Online, Telenor Mobil AS, Sonera and France Telecom. Information about Portal and its products can be found at http://www.portal.com. Note to Editors: Infranet is a U.S. registered trademark, and Portal and the Portal logo are trademarks of Portal Software, Inc. All statements made in this press release are made only as of the date set forth at the beginning of this release. Portal undertakes no obligation to update the information in the event facts or circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or subsequently change. |
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