web-hosting-top.com hosting news - Aug 2001

Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of the optical communications leader Broadwing Inc. (broadwing.com), today shattered industry records by delivering 38 OC-192 (380 gigabits) circuits spanning the nation in less than 60 days, breaking both bandwidth capacity and provisioning benchmarks via its all-optical switched network."Broadwing's leadership has paved the way for many industry firsts, from thedevelopment and deployment of the first intelligent, ...

Amphus Inc. (amphus.com) today announced a joint agreement with Intel Corporation (intel.com) to deliver low-power, ultra-dense servers for data center environments. Based on Intel's low-voltage processors, Amphus says its Virgo ultra-dense server platform is a fully manufacturable design that enables OEMs to deliver ultra-dense server products, with fast time-to-market and virtually zero R&D investment.As a part of the agreement, Amphus and Intel will jointly promote the ...

Viewers of a pay-per-view concert featuring Elton John wereable to watch the 1½-hour event in near TV-image and CD-sound quality as aresult of live video steaming capability provided by Ebone (ebone.com), oneof Europe's largest and most experienced optical and IP network servicesproviders. On the night of the concert and for the seven days afterwards,Ebone was able to support up to 10,000 viewers simultaneously at 100kpsacross its network. The concert was held ...

Diveo Broadband Networks, Inc. (diveo.net), a leadingprovider of Internet infrastructure in Latin America, announced today theaddition of DiveoCache Content Delivery Services to its dedicated andmanaged hosting portfolio through a partnership with Clearway Technologies,a subsidiary of Mirror Image Internet (mirror-image.com) and Xcelera Inc(xcelera.com).Under terms of the agreement, Diveo, with more than 1,250 customersthroughout Latin America, will add the ...

Exodus customers should begin to consider alternative hosting options if the company's financial health continues on its downhill path, according to Gartner (gartner.com), a leading Connecticut-based research firm.In a report issued last week, Gartner research analyst Ted Chamberlinpointed to Exodus Communication's overspending, ill financialoutlook, as well as general dot-com industry struggles, as an indicator thatthe company may not survive much longer. However, Chamberlin ...

Register.com, Inc., a leading provider of global domain registration and Internet services, Tuesday reported that net income for the second quarter 2001 totalled approximately $2.0 million or $0.05 per diluted share, versus a net loss of $992,000 or ($0.03) per share in the second quarter of 2000.Second quarter 2001 cash earnings, or net income excluding amortization ofgoodwill related to acquisitions, totalled $5.9 million or $0.13 per share.Net revenues for the second ...

NaviSite, Inc. (navisite.com), a Web hosting provider,announced yesterday that it will be cutting 25 percent of its staff, or 126employees, in an effort to manage costs. This reduction is in response tolast month's financial report, which showed a quarterly loss nearly doublethe size of last year's loss.The Andover, Massachusetts company said these job cuts include severalhigh-ranking executives in sales, marketing, strategic planning, and humanresources. NaviSite's ...

NetNation Communications, Inc. (netnation.com), aninternational web hosting and domain name registration company, yesterdayannounced an expanded relationship with Hush Communications (hush.com), aleading global provider of managed security solutions and encryptionkey-serving technology. NetNation became a leading Hush affiliate by providing domain nameregistration services from its wholly-owned subsidiary, DomainPeople,(domainpeople.com) as part of its overall ...

Teleglobe (teleglobe.com), a global communications and hosting company, yesterday announced an agreement with GigaPort(gigaport.nl), the Dutch next generation Internet project, to provide Internet connectivity and linkage to the world's major research and education networks.The network of GigaPort was built by Surfnet (surfnet.nl), the organizationresponsible for the Netherlands' national computer network for highereducation and research, and was recently launched. ...

Trinagy, Inc. (trinagy.com), a leading provider of performance management software, and Broadwing IT Consulting(broadwing.com/products/it/), a division of next generation communications leader Broadwing Inc., today announced that Broadwing has become a reseller of Trinagy's complete Insight Plus product line to provide managed services to their clients.Under the agreement, Broadwing will use Trinagy's performance managementsoftware to monitor major clients' global ...