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Collier County Public School District to Deploy Critical Infrastructure at Terremark's NAP of the Americas.


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) a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and private sectors, today announced that the Collier County Public School District has signed a multi-year contract for colocation services at its NAP of the Americas facility. Collier County Public Schools is the first K-12 School District to have a presence in the NAP of the Americas.

Terremark will provide the Public School District with secure and redundant colocation space and power. This collocation space will serve as the foundation for the School District's internet and disaster recovery platforms. The District will house a complete Disaster Recovery Datacenter facility at the NAP consisting of a SAN with synchronous data Synchronous data

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 replication for mission critical data from the District's primary datacenter facility as well as several production server applications. In addition, the District will use diverse fiber connections into the NAP on an Optical DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM.

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 network to provide highly resilient connectivity onto the District's fiber optic network and to the primary datacenter.

The Public School District was able to easily obtain Terremark's services as a result of Terremark's existing contract with Miami-Dade County, which allows Florida Public School Districts, counties and cities to purchase services under the Miami-Dade contract vehicle.

"As the Public School District of Collier County continues to experience growth in the use of Internet resources by its students, teachers, parents, internal departments and the community, it has become mission-critical to have sufficient capacity and the most reliable and secure colocation facility available," said Tom Petry, Coordinator of Network Technology for the District School Board of Collier County The District School Board of Collier County, also known as Collier County Public Schools, is a school district in Collier County, Florida. The district has schools placed in four cities throughout the county: Everglades City, Immokalee, Marco Island and Naples. . "With this year's Hurricane season Hurricane season refers to a period in a year when hurricanes usually form. For more information see: Tropical cyclone#Times of formation.

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 upon us, it is imperative that we house our mission-critical infrastructure in a secure and reliable facility that provides maximum uptime. The implementation of a Datacenter at the NAP is crucial in the District's strategy to provide internet-based educational resources to all students and to provide a highly resilient and fast network for access to all District applications."

Collier County's Public School District is in the southwest region of the State of Florida and has more than 43,300 students, 3,000 teachers and 44 PreK-12 schools. The Public School District includes the municipalities of Naples, Marco Island, Immokalee and Everglades City in a geographic area of 2,119 square miles and has an annual budget of over $821 million. The District School Board of Collier County is implementing a 200+ mile District-owned fiber optic network that will provide 20Gbps of bandwidth to all high schools and 4Gb of bandwidth to Elementary and Middle Schools.

"We are delighted to add Collier County Public School District to our growing list of educational sector customers," said Manuel D. Medina, Chairman 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 Terremark Worldwide Inc. "The NAP has become the facility of choice for educational entities such as the University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University.

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, Miami-Dade College and others, who entrust their mission-critical infrastructure to us for a more secure, reliable and cost-effective solution."

About Terremark Worldwide, Inc.

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (AMEX:TWW) is a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Internet exchanges and a global provider of managed IT infrastructure solutions for government and private sectors. Terremark delivers its portfolio of services from seven locations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and from four service aggregation and distribution locations, which aggregate network traffic and distribute network-based services in Europe and Asia to meet specific customer needs. Terremark's flagship facility, the NAP of the Americas, is the model for the carrier-neutral Internet exchanges the company has 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.  (NAP of the Americas/West), in Sao Paulo, Brazil (NAP do Brasil) and in Madrid, Spain (NAP de las Americas - Madrid). The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is a state-of-the-art facility that provides exchange point, colocation and managed services. Terremark is headquartered at 2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida USA, (305) 856-3200. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at http://www.terremark.com.

Statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. Terremark's actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements due to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, as discussed in Terremark's filings with the SEC. These factors include, without limitation, Terremark's ability to obtain funding for its business plans, uncertainty in the demand for Terremark's services or products and Terremark's ability to manage its growth. Terremark does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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