Joe W., THey keep building these data centers, how they gonna hook them together?
Metromedia Fiber Network Leases Fiber-optic Infrastructure
By James Alan Miller
Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) today announced it would be leasing its fiber-optic infrastructure to IT consulting and outsourcing firm Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). CSC plans on using the fiber-optic infrastructure to provide clients with secure, high-speed connectivity to its data centers.
According to CSC, by securing the fiber-optic infrastructure from MFN, it can now deliver services over a private metro-area network, as well as offer new and enhanced services such as real-time data recovery and back-up, on-line storage and other bandwidth-intensive applications.
"CSC needs high-speed, robust and scalable bandwidth for interconnection of its data and hosting centers, campuses and key customer locations," said Harold Hickman, vice president, Network Engineering Services in CSC's Global Infrastructure Services group. "The MFN solution for metro-area fiber connectivity fits well into our global IP network architecture and strengthens our ability to deliver extremely reliable and secure communication facilities to our clients."
Remember that CSC is bidding on the NSA outsourcing plan..
here the excerpt from the archives...
An NSA spokesperson said an internal agency effort known as Project Trailblazer has been designed to look at ways to improve the agency's technology acquisition process. The NSA is also preparing to release a proposal for a $5 billion outsourcing contract, known as Project Groundbreaker, that will transfer operation of all of its administrative networks to one of three bidders (see story).
Olga Grkavac, executive vice president of the Enterprise Solutions Division at the Information Technology Association of America, called Groundbreaker "a very innovative contract" and said the three potential prime contractors -- AT&T Corp., Computer Sciences Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., and Greenbelt, M.D.-based OAO Corp. -- "have the expertise that NSA needs."
These data centers will make MNFX and GX into what they dreamed of all along.:-) |
