Optimum Lightpath's Metro Ethernet Services to Link Cervalis'
Business Continuity Data Centers With More Than 1,700
Buildings in New York Tri-State Area
Reliability, Availability and Reach of Network are Major
Factors in Cervalis' Choice to Partner with Optimum Lightpath
JERICHO, NY, February 2, 2006
Optimum Lightpath®, a business telecommunications services
division of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), today
announced that Cervalis, LLC, a provider of IT infrastructure
services based in Stamford, CT, has chosen Optimum Lightpath
as its premier provider of point-to-point Metro Ethernet connectivity.
Cervalis is using Optimum Lightpath’s Metro Ethernet network
to provide direct connectivity from its 70,000 square foot secure
remote data center in Dutchess County, NY to customers’ offices
and data centers throughout the New York metropolitan area. This
partnership also enables Cervalis to offer its high availability
data center services, including business continuity/disaster
recovery, production data center outsourcing and Internet application
hosting solutions, to the more than five thousand businesses
in more than seventeen hundred commercial buildings that are
already connected to the Optimum Lightpath optical network.
“The most complicated part of delivering the remote data
center solutions that Cervalis offers to the marketplace is getting – and
staying – connected,” said Michael Boccardi, Cervalis’ president
and chief executive officer. “The high reliability and
availability of Optimum Lightpath’s point-to-point Ethernet
connectivity solution is essential to our business and we could
not get anything like it from any other single vendor. Most of
the ‘traditional’ telephone companies in this region
offer extremely limited or inconsistent Metro Ethernet services
and this partnership has enabled us to get additional customers
that we would not have been able to connect to without the Optimum
Lightpath network.”
Many Cervalis customers – from emerging companies to Fortune
500 corporations – operate in highly regulated industries,
such as financial services, insurance, health care, pharmaceuticals
and government. With zero tolerance for downtime, these organizations
require highly available mission-critical data center services.
In addition, a host of state and industry regulators are now
urging, and in some cases requiring, the development of business
continuity plans to ensure the backup, protection and recovery
of data on a long-term basis.
“Today, business continuity is no longer a luxury; it
is a way of life,” said Dave Pistacchio, Optimum Lightpath’s
executive vice president and general manager. “Cervalis
is providing companies with an affordable, reliable and always
available business continuity solution and we’re pleased
to be giving them the Metro Ethernet connectivity they need to
reach customers with their services. At the same time, this partnership
will allow our current and future customers to take advantage
of the operational continuity virtually guaranteed by having
a leading-edge remote data center located more than sixty miles
outside New York City.”
Optimum Lightpath provides a highly-reliable Metro Ethernet
product line that is offered at very high speeds (10 Mbps up
to 10 Gbps) and delivered via fiber optics that is run directly
to the business location. These Ethernet circuits can be used
for high-capacity data transfer, Internet access or a combined
Internet access/voice services bundle at a relatively inexpensive
cost per bit.
Businesses interested in learning more about Optimum Lightpath’s
Metro Ethernet services can visit http://www.optimumlightpath.com/
or call 1-877-LIGHTPATH.
About Cervalis
Cervalis is a premier provider of IT infrastructure solutions
that enable customers to achieve higher level of business resilience
and accelerate the way companies meet their business objectives.
Through its state-of-the-art, fault-tolerant Operations and
Recovery Centers, Cervalis offers world-class customer support
with the technology needed to scale complex environments reliably
and cost effectively. To learn more about the Cervalis advantage,
please visit www.cervalis.com or call toll-free 866-602-2020.
About Optimum Lightpath
Optimum Lightpath, a business telecommunications services division
of Cablevision Systems Corporation, uses the power of its own
reliable and resilient fully fiber optic network to deliver
converged, IP-based data, Internet, and voice solutions to
businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area. Over
the past 17 years, Optimum Lightpath built an advanced Fiber-to-the-business-Premises
network that has over 2400 route miles of fiber optic cables
throughout the tri-state area. As a result of owning and maintaining
this state-of-the-art network, Optimum Lightpath can better
ensure the enterprise customer’s quality of experience,
while delivering reliable, high bandwidth business communications
services at lower prices. Optimum Lightpath now provides its
customers with scalable, high-capacity IP-based Metro Ethernet
services (E-LAN and E-Line) to support high bandwidth data,
Internet and voice applications, while also delivering highly
personalized customer service unparalleled by traditional telephone
companies.
About Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading
entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television
operations serve 3 million households in the New York metropolitan
area. The company's advanced telecommunications offerings include
its iO: Interactive Optimum digital television, Optimum Online
high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice digital voice-over-cable,
and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications
services. Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates
several successful programming businesses, including AMC, IFC,
WE and other national and regional networks. In addition to
its telecommunications and programming businesses, Cablevision
owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York
Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New
York's famed Radio City Music Hall, and owns and operates Clearview
Cinemas.
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Media Contacts:
Nick Rae
Optimum Lightpath
516-803-1172
nrae@cablevision.com
Chaim Haas
Euro RSCG Magnet
212-367-6829
chaim.haas@eurorscg.com
Chris Klimek
Cablevision
516-803-1249
cklimek@cablevision.com
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