Telseon provides Exodus with metropolitan area network service

📅 April 5, 2001 - Telseon (telseon.com), a leading provider of instantly scalable opticalnetworks and Exodus Communications (exodus.net), the leader in complexInternet hosting and managed services, today announced a reseller agreementthat allows Exodus to offer its customers Telseon's metropolitan areanetwork (MAN) services, which have Web-based provisioning capabilities viaan Ethernet network. The services are available to customers in Exodus'Internet Data Centers (IDCs) in the Silicon Valley, New Jersey, Chicago andWashington, D.C., with availability being extended to additional Exodus IDCsin the future.

As a result of the agreement, Exodus will offer Telseon's instantly scalableGigabit Ethernet service to its customers requiring last-mile connectivityto customer data centers and carrier hotels. The service will enable Exoduscustomers to architect cost effective local access solutions in metropolitanareas to new business partners via the Web. For example, a company operatingin an Exodus IDC in Santa Clara can establish an Ethernet connection to itsoffice location, remote data center and to other business partners withinthe Bay Area. Exodus customers requiring a flexible solution for theiraccess infrastructure will benefit from the number of markets that Telseonserves and its unique coverage area within those markets.
"As the leading provider of hosting and managed services we are prepared tomeet our customers' need for bandwidth-on-demand," said Bruce Talley, vicepresident of services marketing for Exodus Communications. "Through ourrelationship with Telseon, we have the integrated network and serviceoffering necessary to grow at the speed dictated by our customers."
"Now Exodus customers can leverage the capabilities from the leadingprovider of hosted and managed services on an instantly scalable GigEnetwork," said John Kane, chief executive officer of Telseon. "Telseonalready provides IP services to more than a dozen customers within Exodus'IDCs, and the demand continues to rise as opportunities develop in keymarkets including outsourced storage and content services."
Under the agreement, Exodus will resell Telseon's IP Services to customerswithin many of its U.S.-based IDCs, and expand its offering to addressselected Exodus services, such as tape backup and restore services andnetwork attached storage (NAS) services for those companies not currentlyhosted with Exodus. Telseon gains the opportunity to provide the datanetwork to link Exodus IDCs with remote office locations and customer datacenters in key metropolitan markets and service businesses that requireconnectivity across locations.