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ASHBURN, Va., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- PSINet (Nasdaq: PSIX), the Internet Super Carrier, today announced that General Electric International, Inc., a business unit of General Electric, Inc. (NYSE: GE) has selected PSINet to provide web hosting services in its Japanese division. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
PSINet will provide GE Japan with collocation hosting services housed in PSINet's Tokyo global hosting center. These services include connectivity using the PSINet global backbone, system monitoring, security services and site installation.
"This new agreement with GE Japan further strengthens PSINet's position as an industry leader in web-hosting platforms," said Harold S. "Pete" Wills, president and COO of PSINet.
"Our objective is to better serve our customers by providing a higher level of security for hosted servers and 7x24 operations," said Tom Hattier, CIO for GE in Japan. "PSINet has the expertise and experience to support that objective."
PSINet's global hosting center in Tokyo is a 40,000 square foot state-of- the-art eCommerce facility that provides seamless connectivity, guaranteed uptime, mirroring capability, and security to nearly 900 customer server racks. The center is connected with redundant circuits to PSINet's global fiber optic backbone. This is one of the highest-speed, lowest latency networks in the IP world.
GE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified services, technology and manufacturing company with a commitment to achieving customer success and worldwide leadership in each of its businesses. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.ge.com.
Headquartered in Ashburn, Va., PSINet is an Internet Super Carrier offering global eCommerce infrastructure, end-to-end IT solutions and a full suite of retail and wholesale Internet services. Services are provided on PSINet-owned and operated fiber, satellite, web hosting and switching facilities providing direct access in more than 900 metropolitan areas in 29 countries on five continents. PSINet information can be obtained by e-mail at infopsi.com, by accessing the web site at www.psinet.com or by calling in the U.S. 800-799-0676.
SOURCE: PSINet
CONTACT: Doug Baj of PSINet Inc., 703-726-1431 or email: bajdpsi.com
Web site: http://www.psinet.com
http://www.ge.com
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