Internap
Teams With T-Systems to Offer IP Solutions
[October 13, 2004]
ATLANTA,
Oct 13, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Internap Network Services
Corporation (IIP), the leading provider of performance-based
routing technology over the Internet, announced today
that it would formalize its relationship with T-Systems
North America, Inc. to provide a variety of intelligent
routing solutions to leading multinational customers.
Under terms of the agreement, T-Systems,
a division of Deutsche Telekom, one of the world's largest
telecommunications companies, will resell Internap high-performance
Internet products and services through its U.S. sales
channels. The relationship will target major vertical
markets and will be based in Internap's Midwest office,
located in Chicago.
"Working with T-Systems will allow
us both to establish new and stronger relationships
with Fortune 500 companies," said Internap's Dave
Abrahamson, chief marketing officer and vice president
of sales. "With Internap, T-Systems can provide
its core managed web hosting services, including managing
servers and desktops, as well as providing optimized
intelligent routing for our clients' networks."
Abrahamson noted that T-Systems and
Internap have worked together for nearly five years.
Recently, the two companies teamed to offer optimized
intelligent routing and managed web-hosting services
to a joint customer in the Chicago area.
"Internap's intelligent routing
technologies, combined with T-systems expertise in effectively
managing enterprise infrastructures, bring best-of-breed
solutions to the Fortune 500 marketplace," said
Sean Parkinson, CEO of T-Systems. "This strategy
will allow us to expand our capabilities and continue
to differentiate our offerings to other leading enterprise
clients."
With locations throughout the U.S.,
as well as in London and Tokyo, Internap offers a variety
of high-performance Internet solutions. As the leader
in route control, the company combines its intelligent
routing technology with built-in reliability, network
redundancy and superior client support, which allows
companies to increase productivity, generate greater
revenue, decrease costs and improve customer relationships.
Internap offers both premise-based route
optimization and network-based route optimization, which
provide IP connectivity solutions that deliver 100 percent
uptime, less than 45 millisecond latency and less than
0.3 percent packet loss. The company's industry-leading
Service Level Agreement (SLA) is the only proactive
performance guarantee that covers the entire Internet,
rather than just one carrier's network.
About T-Systems
T-Systems is one of Europe's leading
providers of information and communications technology
(ICT). Within the Deutsche Telekom group, T-Systems
is responsible for serving major business accounts.
The company has some 40,000 staff on its payrolls in
more than 20 countries. In 2003, the solutions provider
generated EUR 10.6 billion in sales.
T-Systems' solutions improve the business
competitiveness of its customers in the industry sectors
telecommunications, services and finance, public and
healthcare as well as manufacturing. The company optimizes
processes and cuts costs for its customers, thus providing
them additional flexibility for their core business.
T-Systems makes targeted use of industry expertise and
cutting-edge technology. Its services range from the
integration of new ICT solutions into existing customer
systems, through the implementation and operation of
desktop systems, data centers and networks, all the
way to telecommunications services and solutions for
international carriers, as well as broadcast and media
solutions.
T-Systems' services encompass all levels
of the information and communications technology value
chain, spanning from ICT infrastructure and ICT solutions,
up to and including business process management. For
more information about the company and its services,
see www.t-systems.com.
About Internap
Internap is the market leader of intelligent
route-control solutions that bring reliability, performance
and security to the Internet. The company's patented
and patent-pending technology address the inherent weaknesses
of the Internet, enabling enterprises to take full advantage
of the benefits of deploying business-critical applications
such as e-commerce, Voice over IP (VoIP), video-conferencing,
and streaming audio/video across the Internet. Through
a portfolio of high-performance IP solutions, customers
can bypass congestion points, overcome routing inefficiencies
and optimize performance of their applications. Internap
solutions are backed by an industry-leading performance
guarantee that covers the entire Internet as opposed
to just one network. These offerings include: network-
and premise-based route optimization solutions, colocation,
VPN, content distribution, managed security and managed
storage services.
Internap currently serves more than
1,800 customers including Fortune 1000 and mid-tier
enterprises in the financial services, government; travel/hospitality,
manufacturing, media/entertainment, technology and retail
industries. The company provides services throughout
the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. For more
information, please visit the company website at www.internap.com.
Internap and P-NAP are registered trademarks
and Flow Control Platform is a trademark of Internap.
All other trademarks and brands are the property of
their respective owners.
SOURCE: Internap
Internap, Atlanta
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