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PAETEC Newest Data Center in Phoenix Brings Broad Range of Hosting and Virtualization Services to Arizona BusinessesPHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- PAETEC (News - Alert) Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS: PAET), a Fortune 1000 company that provides advanced communication solutions to businesses nationwide, celebrated the grand opening of its newest data center today in Phoenix, Arizona. The Phoenix data center offers businesses in the Southwest highly secure and scalable Colocation Services with capabilities up to one Gbps, supported by a 24x7 Technical Assistance Center (TAC). PAETEC's strategy in building data centers throughout its nationwide network is reinforced by a market that is poised for growth in 2011. According to Infonetics Research, data center network equipment has grown by 67 percent in 2010 over the previous year.1 Data service technologies that experienced the most consistent growth included Ethernet switches, application delivery controllers (ADCs), and WAN optimization appliances.1 "We've seen the demand for data centers and network-based services increase, and we expect it to continue to pick up momentum over the next decade," said Arunas Chesonis (News - Alert), chairman and CEO, PAETEC. "This new data center fits our strategy of enabling cloud-based technologies and business continuity options for our customers to safeguard information, decrease management needs, and reduce network latency." The statistics in Infonetics' (News - Alert) research show that an increasing number of companies are looking to outsource data storage. Moving data to a hosted cloud at a data center means that businesses won't have to make room for on-site servers and can experience lower energy bills since the servers will not be on the premises. PAETEC's data center solutions are hosted in its highly secure central office and colocation sites around the country. The Phoenix center joins existing facilities in Bethlehem and Conshohocken, Pa., Andover, Mass., Houston, and a Milwaukee center that opened in December 2010. This opening marks PAETEC's 2011 kick-off in data center expansion, with plans to open several more throughout the year. /p>
The new 4,400 square foot Phoenix data center is supported by a 24x7 Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and backed by a 1.4-megawatt backup generator, UPS scalable to 800kva, and an FM-200 fire suppression system. To keep the center at an optimum temperature for customer equipment, 120 tons of circuit cooling capacity are employed, with the ability to increase to 240 tons. For more information on PAETEC's data center solutions, visit http://paetec.com/products-services/data-center/shared-web-hosting/overview.html. To view a recent webinar on its data center capabilities, visit http://www.paetec.com/about-us/educational-series/webinars.html. About PAETEC PAETEC (NASDAQ: PAET), a FORTUNE 1000 company, is personalizing business communications for medium and large businesses, enterprise organizations and institutions across the United States. We offer a comprehensive suite of IP, voice, data, and Internet services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services. For more information, visit www.paetec.com. Reference 1. "Data Center Network Equipment Poised for 67% Growth in 2011." Infonetics. December 2010. http://www.infonetics.com |
