Best Brands Selects SAVVIS to Deliver Managed IP Network; 'End-to-End' Service Level Agreement Was Key Factor in Leading Bakery Products Manufacturer's Decision to Select SAVVIS.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers HERNDON, Va. and ST. LOUIS, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002 SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SVVS SVVS Savvis, Inc (stock symbol) SVVS Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society (UK) SVVS Unix System V Verification Suite SVVS System V Verification Suite ), a global managed IP and managed hosting services provider, today announced that Best Brands Corp., a full-service manufacturer/distributor to the baking industry, has selected it to provide managed IP VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. service. In addition, Best Brands will use SAVVIS' high-speed broadband Internet See broadband. service. SAVVIS' managed IP VPN services will be implemented to support a broad range of Best Brands' applications including secure data transfers, file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , corporate intranet, invoicing/accounting, e-mail, and videoconferencing. In addition, remotely located Best Brand executives will have access to the company's private network via secure dial-in accounts. "Previously, Best Brands had used a major interexchange carrier See IXC. for its network service, but was unsatisfied and ended the relationship. We were disappointed with our previous carrier's inability to effectively step up to managing our services end-to-end, including the critical last mile," said Mark Bratvold, IS Manager, Best Brands Corp. "As our business grew, it became increasingly important to insure availability of key business apps such as invoicing, accounting, and videoconferencing. Research for a new provider revealed that SAVVIS' unique approach to IP VPNs was the managed solution that delivered the availability and scalability we required at a price lower than all competitive offerings. "In addition, SAVVIS was able to deliver full end-to-end service level agreements that provide us with the reliability and accountability we require," Bratvold said. "When SAVVIS provides you with a network, they control, manage and monitor the entire network, not just part of it. They take responsibility for complete end-to-end performance, which is what we wanted." "Best Brands is an important win for SAVVIS," said Jim Mori, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Americas, for SAVVIS. "They're a company that has grown into one of the largest bakery product suppliers in the country, and their name has become synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as quality and reliability. Their story is representative of a growing a segment of mid-sized businesses seeking a best-in-class managed network service that is backed by superior SLAs. When a high volume of mission-critical data is exchanged, network performance can't be compromised." About SAVVIS SAVVIS Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global network service provider (NSP (1) (Network Service Provider) An organization that provides a high-speed Internet backbone to ISPs and other service providers. Sprint, MCI and UUNET are examples of NSPs. See Internet backbones. ) that delivers IP VPNs (virtual private networks), managed hosting and Internet services to medium-sized enterprises and the financial services market. The mid-market, which is underserved by traditional data communications carriers, is the fastest growing segment of the IP VPN market. In the demanding financial services industry, SAVVIS is a leading provider of high-performance networking services. SAVVIS' Financial Xchange(SM), a private IP VPN service platform, connects more than 4,700 financial institutions to financial applications and data worldwide. Financial Xchange(SM) is also one of the largest carriers of Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIX) traffic in the United States and has partnerships with many FIX application and services providers. Known as "The Network that Powers Wall Street"(SM), SAVVIS delivers the reliability, performance and security of traditional private networks, as well as the scalability and flexibility of the Internet, often at a price less than both. As a result, enterprises can connect their offices, partners and remote employees over an affordable private IP network and can also integrate SAVVIS' managed hosting services as well. The editors of Network Magazine named SAVVIS' IP VPNs Product of the Year for 2001. SAVVIS beat out well-known VPN providers such as AT&T (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T), WorldCom (NASDAQ:WCOM WCOM MCI/Worldcom (stock symbol) WCOM Windows Component Object Model WCOM Wireless Communication ), Sprint (NYSE:FON Fon People of southern Benin and adjacent parts of Togo. They speak a dialect of Gbe, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo language family. Numbering about 3 million, the Fon are mainly farmers. ) and Genuity (NASDAQ:GENU genu /ge·nu/ (je´nu) pl. ge´nua [L.] 1. the knee. 2. any kneelike structure. genu extror´sum bowleg. genu intror´sum knock-knee. ). SAVVIS was ranked the eighth fastest-growing technology company in North America on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, which ranks companies based on five-year percentage revenue growth from 1996 - 2000. For more information about SAVVIS and its Intelligent IP Networking(SM), visit: http://www.savvis.net |
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