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OpSource Chooses NTT America for IP Transit

By David Sims
TMCnet Contributing Editor

According to OpSource (News - Alert) company officials, “network speed was certainly one of the driving factors in OpSource’s choice to partner with NTT America” when the two hooked up a few years ago.

And OpSource enjoyed another speed-related advantage when NTT provisioned its network: “How quickly everything could be installed and provisioned was amazing. NTT (News - Alert) America’s install was the fastest I’ve ever seen,” John Rowell, OpSource CTO, said in a customer case study. “Overall, the combination of all the bandwidth commitments we needed, great tiering, the ability to shape our bandwidth, terrific international access and world class network reliability, all at a cost competitive rate.”

This is a long-standing example of the advantages and success of the SaaS (News - Alert)/cloud model: While the traditional software model requires a customer to buy a license and install as well as maintain software, as OpSource officials point out, the SaaS model offers a pay-as-you-go option, accessed over the Internet with a browser.

Running an on-demand business means that an application has to be available and performing optimally 24x7x365, OpSource officials say, noting that their products and NTT America’s (News - Alert) network have to work to make this happen. “Our Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with our customers specify 100 percent application uptime as a guarantee. We live up to our SLAs and our partners must as well,” Rowell said. NTT America is fully staffed to support the demands of high availability customers such as OpSource.

As an enterprise cloud and managed hosting provider, OpSource offers what a company needs to operate its business on the Web. “Over the last three years our business has grown, as our billions of daily transactions attest, and it’s vital for us and our customers to have an infrastructure in place that is not only fast but extremely reliable. Any downtime or bottleneck directly impacts our customers’ ability to run their businesses” Rowell said, adding that the need for speed was there.

As a result, to prepare for expansion, the OpSource team did a thorough evaluation of their IP transit needs including bandwidth, reliability and cost and chose NTT America as a network partner.

To read the full case study, click here.

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