MCLEAN, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--PAETEC Holding Corp. NASDAQ GS: PAET, a Fortune 1000 company that
provides advanced communication solutions to businesses nationwide,
today announced plans for the deployment of a new data center in McLean,
Va., approximately ten miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The center,
which includes 49,000 square feet of raised floor space, will provide
colocation services and geographic diversity to businesses and
government entities along the East Coast and nationwide. The center also
will support the shift to cloud computing as more business applications
move towards advanced network-based services. The McLean center is
planned to open at the end of 2011.
“We selected this location specifically to meet the growing needs of the
mid-Atlantic businesses as well as to support government applications”
Planned services in the center include colocation space, power, and
connectivity to PAETEC’s diverse portfolio of network services as well
as high-speed, fault-tolerant connections to the public Internet.
Customers will have access to PAETEC’s newest data center services
including Dedicated Server, Virtual Server, Managed Cloud Storage,
Hosted Exchange and Hosted Network Security Services.
“We selected this location specifically to meet the growing needs of the
mid-Atlantic businesses as well as to support government applications,”
said Sanjay Hiranandani, PAETEC’s chief technology officer. “When
coupled with our strong portfolio of solutions, leading-edge IP network
infrastructure and industry-leading service, we expect this data center
to be considered one of the premier centers on the East Coast.
Additionally, our fiber and fixed wireless infrastructure ensure that we
can deliver the cloud-based services to end users virtually anywhere in
the country at Gigabit and higher speeds.”
The three-story, 62,500 square foot existing facility will be converted
into data center space over the next seven months. Plans call for 49,000
square feet of raised floor space available to customers to collocate
their servers, routers, and other systems and communication equipment.
PAETEC will be hiring an incremental set of technical staff,
complementing its broad engineering talent base to support this center.
The location is also planned to have a 24x7 Technical Assistance Center
TAC, redundant power, and latest advancements in physical security,
including precautions against flooding, fire and natural disasters.
The center continues PAETEC’s legacy of geographic expansion of data
centers enabling cloud-based services on a truly national basis. With
the addition of McLean, PAETEC will have key data center facilities in
Andover, Mass.; Bethlehem and Conshohocken, Pa.; Milwaukee, Houston,
Phoenix, and Richmond, Va., augmenting its footprint of more than 100
physical colocation facilities nationwide.
For more information on PAETEC’s data center solutions, visit www.fast.com.
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.