New Center Supports Server Collocation Market

By Wayne Kawamoto
Managing Editor, CLEC-Planet 

November 10, 2000 -- Vitts Networks says that it is launching the CLEC industry's most comprehensive network management, monitoring and technical assistance services for collocation and hosting. The company's new offerings are designed to help companies of all sizes reduce theirs costs of maintaining 24x7 server operations for e-business as well as minimize the risk of access interruption by collocating their web and network servers at Vitts' new 13,000 square-foot Internet Data Center (IDC).

These hosting and collocation service offerings are fundamental to both Vitts Networks' corporate growth strategy, which focuses on Internet-based services provided through its IP Protected Service Network, or backbone, and the growth of e-commerce in New England. Hosting and collocation in the IDC linked with multiple connections to the backbone, position Vitts to become a leading player in a market IDC analysts predict to be more than $11.1 by 2002.

"According to Forrester Research, the past two years have seen an 18 percent increase in outsourcing network servers; similarly, the number of e-commerce sites collocating their servers has increased by 12 percent," said Chris Oliver, chairman and chief executive officer of Vitts Networks. "As businesses embrace the economic benefits of collocation, Vitts is responding to this growing need by providing these services in a secure, highly redundant environment that is continuously staffed and monitored."

The cornerstone of Vitts' collocation services is 24x7 accessibility for customers' servers achieved through continuous monitoring, full redundancy, and a gamut of security, protection and back-up systems. Customers also have access to Vitts' network technicians and customer support staff 24x7, and the new IDC facility has secure areas where customer engineers can perform maintenance and upgrades on their servers anytime.

Vitts' collocation services offer a range of housing or space options including full-, half-, and quarter-racks as well as entire secured cages. While all services include a dedicated Ethernet port, DNS, blocks of IP addresses, routing statements, and power, customers also have options for bandwidth and connectivity to meet their specific needs, including redundant connections for fault-tolerance or load sharing.