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SolidSpace Closes 2005 with Record Profitability and Expanded Customer Base; Addition of Hosted Mac Offerings, Expanded Data Center Facilities and Podcasting Services Benefit Variety of Small-to-Medium Businesses.


WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- SolidSpace LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, a leading provider of dynamic hosting infrastructure and developer of intuitive web-based collaborative technologies, today announced that it has completed 2005 with an over 30% increase in revenues and over 35% profitability. With over 1500 domains hosted, SolidSpace is officially the biggest hosting company in the Carolinas, positioning the company in the top 5% largest in the U.S. The employee base went from eight to 34 full time staffers. Infrastructure upgrades such as a larger data center and new product offerings that include MacMini dedicated servers, collocation collocation - co-location  and podcast hosting services poise the company for record success in 2006.

In the early part of this year SolidSpace will debut its new SolidSuite platform that will offer collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool.  such as enterprise-class blogging, audio/video blogging, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , chat, surveying and polling software. Available together or separately in a subscription-based, software-as-a-service model, these products will empower SMBs with dynamic tools typically only available to larger businesses. Additionally, SolidSpace will also provide back-end CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  capabilities that include expense reporting, project management and sales lead A sales lead is the identity of a person or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process. The lead may have a corporation or business associated with the person(s).  tracking.

New clients in 2005 have spanned a range of industries from finance to broadcasting. With SolidSpace, these companies have been able to take advantage of services historically only offered to large-scale companies. Long-standing clients, such as Listingbook.com, a premier online real estate community, which has nearly 150,000 agent, buyer and seller accounts, have taken advantage of SolidSpace's diverse and flexible offerings as the company has evolved.

"Listingbook has been with SolidSpace for many years. When circumstances required the renovation of our facility, we truly understood the value of SolidSpace's collocation services and 24/7 reliability," said James Barry James Barry may refer to:
  • James Barry, 1st Baron Barry of Santry (1603–1672), Baron Barry of Santry
  • James Barry (painter) (1741–1806)
  • James Barry (surgeon) (1795–1865)
  • James Alexander Barry (1886–1950), Canadian politician
  • James G.
, president of Listingbook. "SolidSpace immediately redirected our website traffic to one of their hosting locations, ensuring no interruption of service. Since we are a web-based company with a suite of online productivity tools, downtime would have been extremely costly."

To further enhance customer support, SolidSpace has also upgraded its air handling system, power system and internet connectivity and will soon offer a full mesh A network architecture in which each end point is capable of reaching any other end point directly through a point-to-point physical or logical circuit. Contrast with "hub and spoke," which uses a central switching point and half as many direct circuits.  network. The company has also acquired 36,000 square feet of possible space for expansion space.

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