Servecentric Expands Network Capacity

Servecentric Expands Network Capacity Servecentric, Ireland’s leading data centre, today announced the addition of another two new carriers to service their data centre. It brings to twelve the number of Telecommunications carriers with a point-of-presence in Servecentric. This ensures that it can offer its data centre customers the most diverse range of access in Dublin. The new carriers include leading Irish provider Magnet Business, plus a major global carrier.

The growing requirement for bandwidth heavy applications such as gaming, streaming and video on-demand, necessitates a higher speed network access. By increasing its number of carriers to twelve, Servecentric has increased the communications options for its customers and secured its position as one of Ireland’s leading telecommunications hubs.

This news closely follows Servecentric joining INEX, the fastest growing internet exchange in Europe. INEX is fast becoming a vital part of Ireland national communications infrastructure.

Donal Hanrahan, Sales and Marketing Director, Magnet Business, said, “Servecentric’s data centre was an ideal location for Magnet Business to establish a point-of-presence, given the pedigree of clients it hosts, including banks, semi-states and multi-nationals. In fact, since entering its data centre we have already signed a significant 3 year contract to provide high speed data connectivity to one of Servecentric’s largest customers.”.

Among the seventeen carriers connecting to the Servecentric data centre, Cogent has been selected as one of only three providers whom any client can access via Servecentric’s core internet mesh.

Dave Schaeffer, CEO at Cogent said, “Connecting Dublin was a priority for us because of all the opportunities to serve large bandwidth customers in Dublin. We are happy to be working with Servecentric and look forward to providing the Dublin market with competitive pricing, superior network performance and a very high level of customer service.”

Lori Brown, VP EU Sales and Product Management, added, “Cogent has found that once our presence is established in a data center, customers quickly turn to Cogent for our competitive pricing and quality of service. Customers then experience our award winning customer service and remain a customer for a long period of time.”

Helga Muir, sales and marketing manager at Servecentric commented, “Our mutual propositions perfectly compliment each other. We have the existing client base with the high bandwidth multi-national needs that Cogent seeks. Similarly, Cogent’s low-cost Tier 1 network will provide direct access to many of the world’s largest corporations and internet data centers, makes Servecentric’s proposition more attractive from a cost and quality point of view.

Ms. Muir added, “Gaming is a great example of the new generation of services who place a serious value on having a single global network connected to hundreds of millions of people. With Cogent, we can enable gamers from Salzburg to Seattle to play in true real-time on a seamless network that reacts faster than the human reflex.”

About Servecentric

Servecentric is a wholly owned, private funded, Irish organisation. It was established in August 2002 and has its headquarters in Blanchardstown Corporate Park in Dublin. It is currently Ireland’s leading managed services and data centre operator and provides high-quality, scaleable solutions from single cabinet collocation services to full-scale provision of managed services.

About Cogent

Cogent Communications (NASDAQ: CCOI) is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities-based ISP, operating one of the largest capacity IP networks in the world with lit capacities ranging from 80 to 200 Gigabits per second. Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and point-to-point transport services. Cogent’s facilities-based, all-optical IP network backbone provides IP services in over 100 markets located in North America and Europe.

Since Cogent’s inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections at highly competitive prices. Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007. For more information, visit www.cogentco.com. Cogent Communications can be reached in the United States at (202) 295- 4200 or via email at info@cogentco.com.