American Fiber Systems Provides Enterprise Network Solution for World’s Largest Web Hosting Provider

Posted by Webhost - 28/02/07 at 02:02 am

AFS Delivers Metropolitan Fiber Solution for New 1&1 Internet Data Center in Kansas City. American Fiber Systems (AFS), a leading provider of data networks to carriers and large enterprises, has completed a metropolitan fiber network solution in the Kansas City metropolitan area for 1&1 Internet, Inc. (1&1), the world’s largest web hosting provider.

“We selected AFS to connect our brand new Lenexa data center with low latency to leading ISPs through state-of-the–art connectivity,” said Andreas Gauger, Chairman, 1&1 Internet, Inc. “The AFS line will be an important element for our service level promise of 99.99 per cent availability and is essential in bolstering our redundancy and achieving market-leading connectivity.”

The metropolitan fiber network solution connects 1&1’s newest Data Center, located in Lenexa, Kansas with a number of Internet bandwidth providers, carrier hotels and network hubs in Kansas City, Missouri. American Fiber Systems, as part of its major dedication and focus on the enterprise market, built a 4-node, point-to-point, metro fiber circuit which included three major telecommunications Points of Presence (POPs) already on the company’s network in the Kansas City metro area.

“1&1 opened a fully-automated data center in Lenexa in early 2007 and the entire team at American Fiber Systems knew that completing this project on time was critical,” said Mike Rosato, Senior Director-Carrier Sales for American Fiber Systems. “Dwight Davis did a magnificent job managing this project for AFS while working very closely with 1&1 to assure an on-time completion in spite of significant obstacles.”

American Fiber Systems owns and operates their fiber optic network in Kansas City which runs through both sides of the state lines of Missouri and Kansas. The company connects carriers and enterprises in six markets throughout the United States.

About American Fiber Systems
American Fiber Systems, a provider of metropolitan fiber optic network infrastructure and wholesale transport services, is dedicated to enabling wireline, wireless carriers and large enterprises achieve a competitive advantage from optical broadband communications technology. AFS has deployed of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable in several cities, including Atlanta, GA; Cleveland, OH; Kansas City KS/MO; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, Nashville, TN and Salt Lake City, UT. They connect to a city’s most important points of communications presence, including ILEC central offices and wire centers; CLEC POPs; Internet Service Providers (ISP) and data center locations; Inter-exchange “carrier hotels;” wireless providers and cable company head ends; and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has over 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings. Please visit our website: www.americanfibersystems.com

About 1&1
1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with 6,000 employees and a market cap of $4 billion. 1&1 was established in 1992 and hosts more than 7.5 million domain names, while 38,000 servers run on the company’s four state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1’s global community is over 6.5 million customer contracts strong. The company’s U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. For more information, please contact the company at www.1and1.com or 1-877-461-2631.

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