Cable & Wireless IDC Opens New Internet Solutions Center in Tokyo.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2001 Cable & Wireless IDC, the Japanese business of the global telecommunications group Cable & Wireless (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CWP CWP Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, see there ), today announced the opening of its new Tokyo Internet Solutions Center (Tokyo ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. ) in Ariake, Tokyo. This is Cable & Wireless IDC's fifth data center in Japan and follows the recent opening of its second Osaka data center on April 9, 2001. The new Tokyo facility has a capacity of approximately 13,000 square meters (139,000 square feet) of hosting space and is connected directly to the 1.2 Gbps 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. operating between Japan and 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. . The completion of the new center brings Cable & Wireless IDC's total hosting space in Japan to approximately 20,000 square meters (215,000 square feet). The existing data centers have more than 4,000 servers installed and daily traffic through the centers is around 4 terabytes per day. Following the opening of the Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. data center on April 18, 2001, Tokyo ISC is the 23rd data center to be operated by Cable & Wireless worldwide. The opening of the new facility in Tokyo is integral to supporting Cable & Wireless' strategy to be a leading provider of leading-edge hosting solutions on a global scale. Cable & Wireless' new Managed Hosting Solutions offerings, which are available in the US and UK, will be available in Europe and Japan by the middle of 2001. Within Japan, Managed Hosting Solutions will be provided within the Tokyo ISC. The Tokyo ISC is also expected to perform as a hub for providing hosting services in the Asia Pacific region and like other Cable & Wireless' data centers is connected directly to the company's high performance global IP network. "The opening of the new Tokyo ISC marks a major step toward achieving one of Cable & Wireless' objectives to be a global leader in the 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. market," said Don Reed, executive director of Cable and Wireless plc and chief executive of Cable & Wireless Global Services. "We are very pleased to provide Japanese customers with our sophisticated web hosting services A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing at this state-of-the-art facility in Tokyo." About Cable & Wireless Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with revenue of over $11 billion in the year to 31 March 2001 and customers in 70 countries. Cable & Wireless' focus for future growth is on IP (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. ) and data services and solutions for business customers. It is developing advanced IP networks and value-added services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in support of this strategy. With the capability of its global IP infrastructure and its strength in key markets, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers. For more information about Cable & Wireless, go to www.cw.com. |
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