Qwest Provides FAST Web Search With Advanced Hosting Services
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Qwest will provide Web hosting for FAST Web Search, which supplies 24x7private label Web search capabilities to major portals such as Terra Lycosand its worldwide partners, and T-Online, one of the largest ISPs in Europe.The FAST Web Search installation will migrate from its current collocationfacilities to Qwest's Sacramento CyberCenter - a state-of-the-art hostingfacility. Qwest will also provide FAST with high-speed broadband access andother network services over its 190,000-mile fiber-based Internet network.
"Designing and operating the world's freshest and fastest search engine foruse by major portals requires that FAST have a Web hosting partner that caninstantly deliver unlimited, yet very reliable and low-cost broadband accesson a 24x7 basis," said David M. Burns, executive vice president of businessdevelopment for FAST Search & Transfer. "In order to keep the serviceultra-fresh, and to ensure sub-second response time to millions of usersworldwide, FAST required a partner such as Qwest that owns its own networkand can deliver the highest levels of network performance and reliability.Additionally, Qwest's focus on delivering integrated solutions andprofessional services makes it an excellent partner to resell FAST'sinformation retrieval solutions to businesses of all sizes."
FAST Web Search is the world's freshest search engine, with an averageten-day update of its 600 million fully indexed Web pages. Handling tens ofmillions of searches per day from all over the world, FAST Web Searchconsistently returns the fastest search results on the Web with averageresponse times under one second. By managing the FAST systems through itsCyberCentralSM facility, which monitors all 17 of Qwest's CyberCenters andhelps prevent security breaches, system overloads and outages resulting fromother types of issues, Qwest will help ensure that FAST's Web Search remainsat peak performance, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
Qwest also announced that it will become a certified reseller of FAST searchsolutions and that it had licensed the company's solutions for internal use.Qwest will initially resell FAST Data Search
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0 -> lumen.com), the broadband communications company, announced that it has signed a three-year,multi-million dollar Web hosting and networking services agreement with FastSearch & Transfer (fastsearch.com), a leading developer of search and real-time filter technologies that power the information-on-demand economy.
Qwest will provide Web hosting for FAST Web Search, which supplies 24x7private label Web search capabilities to major portals such as Terra Lycosand its worldwide partners, and T-Online, one of the largest ISPs in Europe.The FAST Web Search installation will migrate from its current collocationfacilities to Qwest's Sacramento CyberCenter - a state-of-the-art hostingfacility. Qwest will also provide FAST with high-speed broadband access andother network services over its 190,000-mile fiber-based Internet network.
"Designing and operating the world's freshest and fastest search engine foruse by major portals requires that FAST have a Web hosting partner that caninstantly deliver unlimited, yet very reliable and low-cost broadband accesson a 24x7 basis," said David M. Burns, executive vice president of businessdevelopment for FAST Search & Transfer. "In order to keep the serviceultra-fresh, and to ensure sub-second response time to millions of usersworldwide, FAST required a partner such as Qwest that owns its own networkand can deliver the highest levels of network performance and reliability.Additionally, Qwest's focus on delivering integrated solutions andprofessional services makes it an excellent partner to resell FAST'sinformation retrieval solutions to businesses of all sizes."
FAST Web Search is the world's freshest search engine, with an averageten-day update of its 600 million fully indexed Web pages. Handling tens ofmillions of searches per day from all over the world, FAST Web Searchconsistently returns the fastest search results on the Web with averageresponse times under one second. By managing the FAST systems through itsCyberCentralSM facility, which monitors all 17 of Qwest's CyberCenters andhelps prevent security breaches, system overloads and outages resulting fromother types of issues, Qwest will help ensure that FAST's Web Search remainsat peak performance, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
Qwest also announced that it will become a certified reseller of FAST searchsolutions and that it had licensed the company's solutions for internal use.Qwest will initially resell FAST Data Search
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