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Apr 6, 2010
Peerless Network focuses on making connections easy. The company offers a broad range of services to carriers and non-carriers alike, with reliable and cost-effective solutions to seamlessly interconnect or peer across multiple and diverse networks, regardless of protocols or traffic types. With this expansion, Peerless Network can expand its coverage for existing customers and offer its services to new customers in the regional interconnect hub markets of Seattle, Cleveland and Indianapolis. Switch and Data supports the strategic initiatives of network service providers (NSPs) such as Peerless Network. Whether the need is for a single data center partner to help an NSP expand its market reach across North America, or to provide on-site support and free up technical resources to focus on innovation and new services, or to enable services providers to meet their customers' security and compliance requirements, Switch and Data understands how to help Network Service providers grow revenue in today's market.
"Peerless is pleased to expand its relationship with Switch and Data and has selected it to provide colocation services for our growth in the Seattle, Cleveland and Indianapolis markets," said Tony Hiller, VP of Network Engineering, Peerless Network, Inc. "Switch and Data's extensive U.S. footprint and proven performance at delivering reliable, resilient solutions for us in New York, Atlanta, and St. Louis and Philadelphia have demonstrated its reliability allowing Peerless to grow rapidly and continue to launch services in multiple markets quickly and effectively."
Peerless Network also uses Switch and Data's TechSmart® remote technical support service to simplify network expansion and enhance Peerless Network's ability to offer highly reliable, premium quality services in new markets. Available at every Switch and Data colocation site, TechSmart offers prescheduled and Rapid-Response® Service technical support services to make it easy for companies to scale their geographic footprint, while minimizing time and travel demands on their own network support teams.
"This expanded relationship demonstrates Peerless' commitment to its customers to roll out its valuable interconnection service across North America's key communications markets," said Ernie Sampera, Senior Vice President and CMO for Switch and Data. "We are pleased that our offering of the broadest footprint of network neutral data centers on the continent, and recognition for providing the industry's best onsite and technical support, give Peerless Network the confidence to continue to trust us to support their growth strategy."
The Switch and Data's Seattle site is located at 2001 Sixth Avenue, the Cleveland site at 1255 Euclid Avenue and the Indianapolis site at 701 West Henry. All provide enhanced resiliency for Peerless Network's infrastructure with redundant cooling, UPS and generator systems, 24x7 site security, environmental and infrastructure monitoring and technical support. These sites offer room for growth and have been designed to provide high-density power and cooling for the latest generation of servers. Last year, Switch and Data's 34 sites in 23 markets provided five 9s of uptime across its footprint.
About Peerless Network, Inc.
Peerless Network, Inc. is a rapidly growing privately held company, focused on simplifying interconnection for telecommunications service providers via a wide range of innovative products and services. Based in Chicago, the company currently delivers services in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, San Jose, San Diego, St Louis, Minneapolis, Connecticut, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Peerless is launching new services in Cleveland, Indianapolis and Seattle, and is certified to provide services in over twenty-nine states.
About Switch and Data
Switch and Data is a premier provider of network-neutral data centers that house, power and interconnect the Internet. Leading content companies, enterprises and communications service providers rely on Switch and Data to connect to customers and exchange Internet traffic. Switch and Data has built a reputation for world-class service, delivered across the broadest colocation footprint and richest network of interconnections in North America. Switch and Data operates 34 sites in the U.S. and Canada, provides one of the highest customer satisfaction scores for technical and engineering support in the industry, and is home to PAIX® - the world's first commercial Internet exchange. For more information on Switch and Data, please visit www.switchanddata.com.
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