Leading Hosting Provider Hostway Drives Advanced Service and Global Footprint Growth with Brocade IP Network

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brocade:

Video - Charles Charmantz, General Manager Network Services, Hostway Corporation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V2chaI3zjk

Founded in 1998, Hostway is privately owned and profitable with more than 600,000 enterprise and consumer customers worldwide. The company is one of the top five largest independent Web hosting companies in the world and the only truly global provider dedicated solely to Web hosting.

Hostway Basic Facts: (from http://www.hostwayenterprise.com/support/why-hostway.html)

• Founded in 1998
• More than 600,000 customers worldwide
• $100 million invested in network infrastructure
• 700 employees worldwide
• Provides shared hosting; co-location, dedicated, virtual, and managed hosting solutions; value-added IT solutions; and transport and transit services
• Dedicated to global growth and expansion, Hostway has offices around the world in Chicago, Illinois; Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Austin, Texas; Vancouver, British Columbia; London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Antwerp, Belgium; Frankfurt and Hannover, Germany; Seoul, South Korea; Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam; Sydney, Australia; and Mumbai, India

Marquee Clients (from http://www.hostway.com/aboutus/our-story.html)

• Sony Music, JVC, Coca-Cola, McGraw-Hill, Bank of Montreal, Tribune Co., Hershey’s Food Corp, Campbell’s Foods, Wrigley Jr. Company, Disney, Infinity Broadcasting, and Fox News

Quotes

“Having been a multivendor, pretty heavy Cisco shop for a long time, we’ve seen it all,” said Charles Charmantz, general manager, network services, Hostway. “Brocade gives us the most complete, stable, cost-efficient and easy-to-manage network we’ve ever had and has become our go-to vendor for IP Ethernet networking products. Their service and support organizations are the best in the industry, in terms of both knowledge and response time, and help us serve our increasingly diverse customer base very well.”

“Hostway is one of the most progressive and innovative hosting providers in the world, and we are pleased that they’ve selected us as a partner in building their advanced service delivery network,” said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager, IP products division, Brocade.

Hosting Infrastructure (from http://www.hostway.com/aboutus/our-story.html)

• All-Brocade backbone IP network
• 250,000 square feet of data center space
• Carrier-independent network and co-location
• Multiple OC-48, OC-12, and Gigabit Ethernet connections to Tier 1 Internet backbone providers

Brocade Products Deployed

• Brocade NetIron XMR
  • http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/ds-ni-xmr.pdf
• Brocade FastIron Edge X-series
  • http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/ds-fi-edge-x.pdf
• Brocade FastIron GS series
  • http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/ds-fi-gs-series.pdf
• Brocade BigIron RX8
  • http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/ds-bi-rx.pdf

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About Brocade

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