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LeaseWeb Restructures Hosting Network with Cisco CRS-1

Investment nears $2.4 million, providing the ultimate uptime guarantee with two additional machines to network infrastructure.

Netherlands-based hosting provider, LeaseWeb, announces the restructure of its global hosting network with the acquisition of two Cisco CRS-1s. This addition makes the network infrastructure more hierarchical and scaleable, enabling a bandwidth capacity increase to 1900 Gigabits per second.

The total investment for the two Cisco machines is nearly $2.4 million US, which will have a vital role in the new hosting network. Offering the ultimate uptime guarantee, the company opted for two machines because it allows LeaseWeb to safeguard its service level agreements with customers to an even greater extent.

“To date the volume of our data traffic has doubled or done better than that every year,” explains Con Zwinkels, Managing Director of LeaseWeb. “If you calculate what this means for the future… Right now we have 80 Gigabits per second. It will be 160 a year from now. The required capacity will be 320 Gbps the year after that, and we will be close to 1.3 Terabits in a couple of years. We were unable to guarantee the growth potential with the current network structure., With the acquisition of the new Cisco CRS-1 platform, however, we can now realize that growth capacity. Moreover, the CRS-1s are ready for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet from a technical perspective. So we will be able to use those standards as soon as they are available on the market.”

“I am happy that LeaseWeb, an internationally successful hosting provider, has opted for Cisco’s CRS-1,” added Coks Stoffer, CEO of Cisco Netherlands. “The demand for bandwidth is growing very quickly at LeaseWeb. The CRS-1 and the associated new network design for LeaseWeb will enable them to accommodate the predicted growth of their Internet traffic. As a result, LeaseWeb customers can be sure that the growth potential, in terms of bandwidth, will be huge in years to come.”
This acquisition now makes LeaseWeb’s network more hierarchical with fewer cross-connections, yielding great benefits in terms of network management.

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