ColoServe Announces Availability of Metro Ethernet Service; New Service Allows Companies to Increase Network Redundancy and Speed While Cutting Costs.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- ColoServe, a leading San Francisco colocation and managed service provider, announced today the availability of several new metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). products. Now, leveraging ColoServe's Screaming-Fast Network(TM) and the latest 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 networking technology, businesses can increase the bandwidth and redundancy of their networks while lowering costs. "We're excited to be offering our new LanExtender, NetExtender, and DataExtender metro Ethernet products to our customers," said John Keagy, president, ColoServe. "Use of metro Ethernet services is growing due to the many benefits it offers, including faster provisioning, superior flexibility and greater capacity. ColoServe recognizes the value this service brings to our customers because now they can experience these benefits while connecting at a very high speed to both the Internet and off-site servers they put in our secure data center -- so fast, it feels as though the servers were still in their office." Metro Ethernet allows customers to consolidate services such as colocation, disaster recovery, off-site backups and Internet access See how to access the Internet. through a single vendor, which often results in greater operational efficiency for an IT department. The ability to use a high-speed fiber connection to connect an office to a colocation provider makes hosting critical production or backup servers A computer in a network used to store copies of files from client machines or other servers. Such servers typically have their disks set up in a RAID configuration to provide fault tolerance. See backup program, RAID, SAN and LAN free backup. off-site more compelling. In the event of a power outage Noun 1. power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" power failure equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" , critical applications are still accessible via a high-capacity Internet connection, resulting in zero down time. Metro Ethernet technology has been in existence for some time, but is just now becoming popular due to increasing demand for Internet connectivity. It offers higher performance and more bandwidth at a lower cost than traditional telco circuits such as T1 lines and requires that no specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. equipment be installed at the customer's office. "As a business owner, you want to keep your network up and running all the time," Keagy continued. "The loss of productivity from a power outage or slow connections to the Internet or between offices can amount to thousands, even millions, of dollars. Metro Ethernet service from ColoServe provides reliability and performance so that companies don't have to worry about staying connected. It's become an important part of business continuity and disaster recovery plans for many companies." ColoServe's metro Ethernet service is currently available to customers in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . For companies with critical servers that need to be in a redundant environment, it can be combined with other colocation services. For more information, please contact ColoServe at www.ColoServe.com, or call 1-800-979-COLO. About ColoServe ColoServe is a leading San Francisco colocation and managed service provider. It is a division of ServePath, which provides dedicated hosting Typically refers to a single Web site that is hosted on a stand-alone server. See dedicated server. solutions to thousands of customers worldwide. The company was founded in January 2001 and has offices and its data center facility in San Francisco. For more information on ColoServe, please visit http://www.ColoServe.com. |
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