Cable & Wireless Opens Second Next Generation Web Hosting Center.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2000 Cable & Wireless (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CWP CWP Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, see there ), the global telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. group, today announced it has opened one of the largest data and 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. centers in Europe. This follows the opening of its US center in Reston, Virginia Reston is an internationally known planned community whose goal was to revolutionize post-World War II concepts of land use and residential/corporate development in American suburbia. , last November and builds on the company's commitment to meet the continuing growing demand for business data and Internet-based solutions Opened this morning in Swindon, England, by Patricia Hewitt Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 2 December 1948) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West and the former Secretary of State for Health. , MP, Government Minister for Small Business and E-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Solutions Center (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. ) has over 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2) of web hosting floor space. It is directly connected to the Cable & Wireless global 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. ) backbone which delivers integrated Internet, data, voice and messaging communications with a consistent quality of service for businesses worldwide. This is the next step for Cable & Wireless in delivering its web hosting capacity globally. Today's opening signals a total of over 204,000 square feet (18,900 m2) ready for service -- 20 per cent of the company's planned hosting and data storage capacity worldwide by the end of 2002. Other ISCs are close to completion. The ISC in 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. , is due to open late this summer, adding another 64,000 square feet (5,900 m2), while the expansion of its ISCs in Tokyo and Osaka are due early next year, bringing Cable & Wireless close to half way through the program. All ISCs will be directly on Cable & Wireless' global IP network and will further strengthen Cable & Wireless' position as a leading web hosting company. Cable & Wireless is investing (pound)2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) in its global IP network build program. In November last year, the company announced it was building an IP network of 84 international nodes by 2001 in its drive to build the most advanced OC-192 (9.6 Gbps) capable global IP network in the industry, the first phase of which was completed in April 2000. In Europe, it is investing (pound)600 million (US$1 billion) to extend the coverage of the core 9.6 Gbps (OC-192) IP network by connecting 200 cities across the continent to the world's largest and most advanced data and IP network. Graham Wallace Wal·lace , Alfred Russel 1823-1913. British naturalist who developed a concept of evolution that paralleled the work of Charles Darwin. , Chief Executive of Cable & Wireless said, "This is another key step in the delivery of Cable & Wireless' IP and data strategy. As companies around the world do more and more of their business over the Internet, they need our resources and expertise globally to support their e-commerce activities. With these worldwide web hosting centers linked to our global IP network, Cable & Wireless can provide customers with world-class communications, hosting, e-commerce, application service requirements, and guaranteed performance levels." "Our web-hosting products and services provide fully scaleable solutions to meet the growing demand for web site management at any stage in a company's web site life cycle. It leverages our world-class web hosting centers, built directly on the nodes of our single global IP network." Patricia Hewitt MP, Minister of State at the Department of Trade & Industry said today, "This Internet Solution Center is an example of how a 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. can match the needs of modern business, offering a one stop shop for all their online requirements. Any sized business, national or global, can have their web hosting needs met from the site at Swindon, and I welcome this innovative approach to attracting business customers to make greater use of the web. It is one more step on the road to Britain becoming a world leader in e-commerce." The new site has a bandwidth capability of 9.6 Gbps, 150,000 times faster than an ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. line, and state-of-the-art security systems providing highly reliable and secure environments. Other features include: - On-site power station, capable of running the centre on 500,000 litres of diesel for 20 days without the need to refuel re·fu·el v. re·fu·eled also re·fu·elled, re·fu·el·ing also re·fu·el·ling, re·fu·els also re·fu·els v.tr. To supply again with fuel. v.intr. , will ensure continuous electrical back-up. - Permanently staffed by on-site security personnel - 24 x 7 expert real time operations centre staffed by web hosting technical experts - 24 x 7 helpdesk - Constant humidity humidity, moisture content of the atmosphere, a primary element of climate. Humidity measurements include absolute humidity, the mass of water vapor per unit volume of natural air; relative humidity (usually meant when the term humidity and temperature - Closed-circuit video surveillance - Access cards and finger-print scan identification - Customer testing laboratory to ensure that all customer equipment is thoroughly tested before it goes `live'. - Equipment receiving and storage controls for tracking and securing customer equipment The new ISC in Swindon will be able to supply business customers of all sizes and in all sectors with a range of web-hosting services, including: - The Cable & Wireless Co-Location Web Hosting Service 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 which enables businesses to host content themselves on Cable & Wireless' global IP network in order to serve applications that require distributed, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. and high-volume transmission capability. Customers have access to secure cages and racks in Cable & Wireless' ISCs, direct access to its high speed, global IP network, and customer-connect port monitoring. Co-location web hosting is ideal if a customer has the web experience and the in-house skills to manage a web solution, but would rather avoid the expense of establishing their own data center facilities. - Because of its premier position in the US -- it supports more than 3,500 URLs, including many of the world's most widely recognized companies on the web - Cable & Wireless is already the world's number two for high-end, dedicated web hosting. The Cable & Wireless Dedicated Web Hosting Service allows customers to get their Internet business on line in short time scales with their own dedicated servers configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: to their specification and managed in Cable & Wireless' world class ISCs with a high speed connection to the Cable & Wireless Tier 1 global IP backbone. This service is ideal if the customer requires more than a basic web presence and has a specific requirement that cannot be met by a Dedicated Packaged solution. - The Cable & Wireless Managed Solution Service that provides Co-Location and Dedicated customers with an a la carte menu of 16 site management services for complex web site management requirements. - The Cable & Wireless Dedicated Packaged Service which offers a set of five predefined packaged solutions, on pre-configured platforms. It provides a migration path from the Shared Web Hosting service and is targeted at customers whose web site become more critical to their business and demand increased web space and processor speed. If a customer's web requirements are relatively simple but they do not have the resources to implement it in-house, they will find that a Dedicated Package will meet their requirements. As part of the formal opening of its ISC in Swindon, Graham Wallace also announced its first customers were already being installed. Most of Xerox's web activities worldwide are co-hosted and co-located with Cable & Wireless and a number of those activities will be hosted in Swindon, while the Cable & Wireless Application Service Provision (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) services, as part of its partnership with Compaq(TM) and Microsoft(TM) in this field, will be hosted in Swindon and at its site in Reston, USA. And, following last week's landmark agreement between Cable & Wireless and Nokia to create the world's first truly global wireless Internet platform, this service will be offered to European customers from this ISC. The global web hosting market is predicted to grow from a current figure of US $3 billion to US$23 billion by 2002.(1) Demand for services ranges from the simplest hosting service, providing email and basic websites, to highly customized, managed application development and integration. About Cable & Wireless Cable & Wireless is a major global telecommunications business with annual revenue of over (pound)9 billion (US$14 billion) and customers in 70 countries. Its businesses around the world offer a range of services spanning 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). data, Internet and voice services. Cable & Wireless' priority for expansion is the fast growing market of IP (Internet Protocol) and data services for business customers. It is making major investments in developing advanced networks and services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to build the world's leading global IP infrastructure. With the capacity of this advanced infrastructure and its presence in key business markets, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers. A recorded webcast of the Swindon Internet Solutions Center opening is available at www.cw-isc.co.uk. (1) source: Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
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