Jul, 2001 : Carlson Wagonlit Selects Diveo as Hosting Provider

📅 July 19, 2001 - Diveo Broadband Networks, Inc. (diveo.net), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure and broadband services in Latin America, announced yesterday that Carlson Wagonlit, one of the world's largest travel agency networks selected Diveo to manage and host their latest business-to-business initiative.

Carlson Wagonlit has developed a B2B portal that facilitates online travelarrangements and transactions for its corporate customers throughout theBrazil, named the Smart Traveler management system. Developed by SpectrumEngenharia (spectrum.com.br), the application manages the process of creating, detailing and approving business travel requests.
The software uses a Java to Enterprise Edition platform (J2EE) for a Webenvironment that demands a scalable infrastructure that can handle heavytraffic.
"We chose Diveo after performing a competitive survey of Internet datacenter providers that focused on criteria we believe is important for thesuccess of our online business, including overallinfrastructure, physical and logical security, service quality, and customerresponse time,"' said Roberto Bernucci, IT manager for Carlson WagonlitBrasil.
To support this complex e-commerce site, Diveo is supplying Carlson Wagonlitwith a dedicated hosting solution, including high-powered Compaq Proliantservers running on Windows 2000 with a comprehensive managed hosting suite.The Tambore data center offers networking, physical facilities andconnectivity for approximately 4,000 racks and 60,000 servers.

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