CommuniTech.Net Network Operating Center Is Open Book For Public.Business Editors KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2000 CommuniTech.Net, rated as one of the top 20 of all webhosting companies worldwide by CNet and HostIndex, is the first hosting company to display MRTG MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher graphs of all their 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 connections including real-time graphs directly on their website. They also have a photo archive of their Internet data center on their website, so clients and prospects can see the kind of capacity and hardware available to them. "Most people don't see the kind of bandwidth capacity, servers, and network equipment that a webhosting company has available." stated Gabriel Murphy Gabriel Murphy (born December 23, 1975 in Saint Joseph, Missouri) is an American entrepreneur residing in Leawood, Kansas. He is a 1999 graduate of Cornell University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Marketing from the College of , co-founder of CommuniTech.Net. "We want to be one of the first webhosting companies to make sure our clients and the public know exactly what kind of connectivity we have in-house and what our traffic patterns, or 'bandwidth' looks like day-in and day-out. Our clients need to be able to rely on our data center for full redundancy and 100% availability. Our photo archive helps potential clients overcome any concerns about our reliability and scalability going forward." CommuniTech.Net is one of the few webhosting companies whose data center is not co-located. Co-location is when a company locates their servers and/or network equipment at an off-site facility managed by another company. This arrangement usually ends up with the co-location customer locating their equipment hundreds, if not thousands of miles away. CommuniTech.Net owns and maintains all of their network equipment and servers in-house. Currently they maintain 4 DS-3 circuits via two OC-12 connections. Their newest DS-3 is through Sprint Communications, who has one of the best cross-country fiber optic networks today. The other DS-3 circuits are through MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom (UUNet Technologies), Frontier Global Crossing, and Savvis Communications. CommuniTech.Net has become, since its inception in 1997, the largest webhosting company in the Midwest. Not bad for a company that started with one ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. line 2 years ago. With over 15,000 customers residing in 108 countries, revenue rose to over $2 million in 1999. The firm was co-founded by Gabriel Murphy, a 24 year old graduate in business and marketing from Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. and 19 year old Bryan Heitman, who is responsible for the firms' network engineering. Currently the firm has 30 employees and is adding nearly three a month. Communitech.Net's webhosting growth comes from their fully automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. online business. They offer shared servers to customers, which essentially leases a piece of a server to a client. They are also offer dedicated hosting Typically refers to a single Web site that is hosted on a stand-alone server. See dedicated server. to clients who want to lease an entire server for their own use. A third option is co-location, which simply means Communitch.Net houses a client's own equipment in their Internet data center. Co-location is the newest venture for CommuniTech.Net. "We are currently adding 5,000 square feet of facilities to better showcase our technology to the customer and handle our rapid growth in the co-location marketplace," remarked Jason Park, director of development for CommuniTech.Net. "Clients will be able to see the technology we employ to provide them a scalable solution going forward". The most important thing to the customer is that their operation suffers no downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , and that we have the bandwidth capacity available for their growth. Redundancy provides reliability and that is what our customers demand." |
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