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(Hong Kong, February
14, 2001) - PSINet Hong Kong ("PSINet"),
a wholly owned subsidiary of PSINet Inc., the Internet
Super Carrier, today gives the media a preview of its
upcoming service offerings in 2001. These include PSINet
Mobile - MobileWEB, Virtual ISP and PSINet IntraNet.
Today's media briefing also effectively showcases PSINet's
full scale next-generation Internet solutions ranging
from network - infrastructure to managed services.
PSINet has engineered its network specifically for
Internet applications, resulting in an infrastructure
optimized network for Internet performance. PSINet provides
leased lines service from more than 900 points-of-presence
(POPs) throughout the world with 24X7 network monitoring
for optimal performance.
"We are pleased to say that PSINet offers a comprehensive
suite of Internet solutions to meet every aspect of
the mission-critical Internet application needs of today's
business communities," said Mr. William Kwan, President
of PSINet Greater China. "Such a full scale proposition
speaks clearly for our sharply competitive edge - for
it constitutes a self-owned global network infrastructure
plus reliable managed services. Our global and local
capabilities have positioned us well to make important
inroads into the provision of services for all business
requirements."
"We owned more than 1,000,000 miles of fiber optic
route which has traffic speeds of up to 10 Gbps (10
Giga-bits per second) around the world, as a result
PSINet can provide one of the world largest and most
powerful communications connection."
Mr Kwan added, "The introduction of our new service
offerings - PSINet Mobile - MobileWEB, Virtual ISP and
PSINet IntraNet - has further strengthened our solutions
portfolio, expanding our service offerings to ultimate
solutions that help clients boost their productivity
and efficiency."
Preview of the new service offerings
In 2001, PSINet will formally launch the following three
managed services:
!P PSINet Mobile service - MobileWEB
PSINet will be the first ISP in Hong Kong to offer this
mobile solution - which enables corporate users to extend
their website services and information to mobile devices.
MobileWEB can dynamically fetch information from the
WWW and format it plus deliver the information to all
WAP enabled mobile phones.
The capability to automatically transform website information
on to mobile devices will eliminate the need to develop
and maintain two systems. In addition, MobileWEB can
support future mobile technologies such as GPRS, EDGE
and 3G and can read Asian and European languages.
!P Virtual ISP
This is a unique Internet access solution for businesses
that want to cross-sell bundled solutions and value-added
services, and wish to drive customers to their e-businesses.
Virtual ISP features nationwide dial-up Internet access,
authentication, dial-up software development and customization,
end-user billing and technical support, plus customer
service - all the above services will be privately labelled
under the customer's name.
Virtual ISP is a highly flexible and customizable services
which was developed to accommodate different businesses
who want to provide online services regardless of their
industries.
!P PSINet IntraNet
PSINet IntraNet solution links together the LANs of
different sites of one organisation to create a private
Internet-protocol (IP) network. The unique design of
PSINet IntraNet service can securely isolates internal
traffic from public Internet traffic and gives high-quality
access to the global Internet. IntraNet solution also
featured complete network management and monitoring,
Internet-access hardware, security consulting and implementation
all at a lower cost and less effort than traditional
wide-area networking services.
!P High Availability (HA) Solutions
PSINet High availability solutions launched in December
2000 are fully managed services designed to help corporation
maximise their Internet resources performance. There
are two main solutions;
!P HA Connectivity, is a comprehensive, easy to use
content traffic management solution for networks with
multiple links.
!P HA Server Load Balancing, a highly reliable traffic
and content management solution for systems with multiple
servers.
PSINet Solution Suite
The current solution suite from PSINet is primarily
divided into two major streams: 1) network and infrastructure,
2) managed services.
Network and Infrastructure
!P Dedicated Access, SmartFrame - offers superior connectivity
solutions providing full-time, high availability Internet
access service with maximum performance. SmartFrame
provides direct connections to PSINet Internet-optimised
backbone at access speeds of 64Kbps up to 45Mbps, thus
able to offers different connection requirements for
different applications and businesses.
!P Global Hosting Services - 42 Global Hosting Centres
(GHC) located in more than 25 countries across Europe,
United States and Asia Pacific. With superior support,
technology and bandwidth, PSINet GHC is uniquely positioned
to provide dedicated hosting and collocation services
for customers with serious requirement for serious business.
!P Broadband Internet Access - using the best of breed
technologies, PSINet will roll-out its Local Multi-point
Distribution Services (LMDS) to further enhance current
access services for delivering voice, data, video and
Internet access. This service will be launched in March
2001.
Managed Services
!P Dedicated Hosting Solutions (DH) - Fully managed
turn-key solution for outsourcing your Internet and
Web applications. DH operates in a highly reliable and
secure PSINet GHCs around the world which are redundantly
connected to the PSINet frame relay-based, IP-optimised
network.
!P Security Solutions - With information security a
critical issue, PSINet offers managed security solutions
to help your company protect your most valuable asset,
information.
SmartSecurity Anti-virus - provides anti-virus protection
for your entire enterprise network
SmartSecurity Firewall - combines firewall protection,
content filtering, and access control plus expert security
consulting into a value-rich service package
Secure Office - effectively blocks all the abnormal
attack from the Internet and allows secure remote access
to private computing resources from anywhere on the
Internet
PSINet will exhibits at Hong Kong Information Infrastructure
("HKII") Expo between 22-25 February 2001
in Hall 1, booth G1 in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre (New Extension). At booth G1, PSINet will present
the whole array of products and services including the
latest PSINet Mobile, Virtual ISP, PSINet IntraNet,
High availability and security solutions.
PSINet will also hold a symposium during the Expo on
February 23 at 2:00-3:15pm in Rm. 201B. The symposium
will have two key focuses: "Expand Your Business
Reach with Mobile Commerce" and "Maximizing
your Internet Operations - High Availability Solutions".
Registration can be made at http://www.hk.psi.net/iiexpo/.
Media Contact:
Priscilla Wat
Phone: 852-2170-7536
Email: mediaenquiry@CPCNet.com
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