Internap has been added to the IP infrastructure of Colo4Dallas to provide increased reliability, redundancy, and service. The Internap multi-carrier intelligent routing technology uses Private Network Access Points (P-NAPs) to speed Internet traffic from one location to another. Colo4Dallas owns and operates a 28,000 square foot, environmentally controlled and secure data centre.

Equinix has deployed Force 10's TeraScale E-Series switch/routers in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet upgrade to its Washington, D.C. area Internet Business Exchange (IBX) centre, with planned deployments to IBX centres in the New York, Silicon Valley and Chicago areas by the end of 2005. Equinix operates 15 IBX centres with a total footprint of more than one million square feet in the United States and Asia Pacific.

FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. a provider of complex metro data services has been selected by Equant to provide low-latency Metro Ethernet Transport services in the New York and New Jersey areas. FiberNet provides securely managed optical Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, switched and dedicated forms of Ethernet connections, and VLAN virtual circuits that can be configured to create point-to-point or multipoint-to-multipoint connections for hub, VLAN or VPN networks. Fibernet's revenues for the second quarter of 2005 were US$8.4 million.

Bell Security Solutions Inc. and Fusepoint Managed Services Inc. announced the implementation by Maple Leaf Foods of a co-sourced data centre ensuring business continuity under virtually any circumstance. Other recent contract wins for managed IT security include leading companies such as Colliers, Cossette Communications, Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan, Just For Laughs, Oberthur Gaming Technologies and Tim Hortons.