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Emerging Internet
Data Center Strategies of Carriers
Service:
Advanced Carrier Business Services
Report
Number: TX01-05MS
Publication Date: July 2001
Number of Pages: 33
Report Price: $2,995 USD
The Internet Data Center (IDC) has emerged as the key vehicle for
carriers to move up the value chain to offer new services for their
data networking customers. It is a next generation Central Office
designed to meet the new economy demands of e-business. Carriers
may offer one or more of the following services in an IDC: co-location,
managed hosting, applications services, storage services, and/or
content delivery services. This report profiles ten carriers that
are leading IDC service providers, plus two leading suppliers for
the building and management of IDCs. A five-year forecast is made
for future carrier IDC service revenues.
Table
of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Internet Data Center Services
- Models of Service
- Architecture/Costs of an Internet Data Center
- Competitive Advantages of Carriers
- Internet Data Center Service Provider Profiles
- AT&T
- BellSouth
- Cable & Wireless
- Genuity
- ITC^DeltaCom / e^deltacom
- Level 3 Communications
- Qwest
- Sprint
- WorldCom
- XO Communications
- Suppliers for Building/Management of IDCs
- Bechtel Telecommunications
- Hewlett-Packard (HP)
- Internet Data Center Revenues Forecast
List of Tables
- Table 1. Summary of Service Provider IDCs and Services Offered
- Table 2. Forecast of Worldwide Square Footage Used in Carrier
Internet Data Centers (Millions of Sq. Ft.)
- Table 3. Forecast of Worldwide Carrier Internet Data Center
Revenues for Co-location, Managed Hosting, Applications Services,
and Storage Services (Billions of U.S. dollars)
List of Figures
- Figure 1. Interest in Outsourcing Different Applications in
2001 by Large Enterprises and Mid-Sized Businesses
- Figure 2. Photo of Internet Data Center Showing Racks of Servers
in Cabinets or Cages on a Raised Floor
- Figure 3. Internet Data Center Networking Infrastructure
- Figure 4. Typical Capital Costs for 100,000 Sq. Ft. IDC assuming
complete managed hosting to capacity
- Figure 5. Bechtel Services for Building a Functioning Internet
Data Center
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