AboveNet Announces Westlin Business Continuity Solution
October 12 2005 - 3:23PM
PR Newswire (US)
Houston Area Covered for Business Contingencies NEW YORK, Oct. 12
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AboveNet, Inc, a premier metro network
provider of custom fiber connectivity solutions, today announced
the Houston kickoff of their collaboration with Westlin Corp. for
business continuity solutions. AboveNet's extensive Houston metro
fiber network has been extended to provide enterprise customers
with both protected private and shared optical network services to
Westlin's Disaster Recovery Data Center located in Montgomery,
Texas. AboveNet and Westlin are collaborating to provide
synchronous and high capacity asynchronous storage connectivity to
ensure reliably consistent levels of data protection at Westlin's
underground Disaster Recovery Data Center. Easy access and seamless
connectivity highlight the low latency solution enabling aggressive
Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives
(RTOs) for mission critical data. Options such as remote backup,
active clustering, redundancy, and resiliency help solve compliance
issues with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes Oaxley and
HIPPA. AboveNet is providing OC-n level SONET services as well as
Fast Ethernet and Gig Ethernet capabilities. AboveNet is connected
to the top 14 metro areas in the U.S. with 1.5 million fiber miles
of metro access and is a Tier1 Internet provider. "Surviving
today's plethora of unpredictable business conditions, both natural
and man made, demands exact planning and execution of business
continuity processes," said MaryBeth Nance, Director of Business
Development for AboveNet. "For Houston area businesses the choice
is now easy." For more information contact AboveNet Houston at
(713) 344-2142 or Westlin's DR hotline at (281) 404-2224 About
AboveNet, Inc. AboveNet, Inc. provides fiber connectivity solutions
for businesses. Its private optical network, delivers key network
and IP services in and between 14 top U.S. metro markets and
London. AboveNet's network is widely used in demanding markets such
as financial services, where the majority of top investment banks
and five of the top 10 U.S. banks rely on AboveNet for mission
critical services. This news release contains forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Factors that could
cause or contribute to such risks and uncertainties include, but
are not limited to, general economic and business conditions,
competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, and
various other factors beyond the Company's control. This also
includes such factors as are described from time to time in the SEC
reports filed by AboveNet, Inc. including the most recently filed
Forms S-3 and 8-K. About Westlin Corporation Based in Houston,
Texas, Westlin Corporation (Pink Sheets: WSTN) is an Internet
technology company engaged in Disaster Recovery and Business
Continuity business lines. Its operation, located in a former
Nuclear Fallout Shelter, provides one of the most secure
environments for on-line and near-line data storage, safe from
natural disasters and terrorist acts. The Westlin Corp's web site
is http://www.westlin.com/ DATASOURCE: AboveNet, Inc. CONTACT: Rick
Battle of AboveNet, +1-571-633-5122, or Web site:
http://www.above.net/ http://www.westlin.com/
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