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COLLOCATION SOLUTIONS ADDS COMDEPOT CONTINUITY SERVICES

Collocation Solutions LLC, a leading carrier-neutral, outsourced data center infrastructure service provider, announced that they have added COMDEPOT's Virtual Core to their Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity service offering. COMDEPOT will now deliver a new set of managed services to Collocation Solutions customers, including firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and prevention, and routing services, from a single cost-effective platform.

The addition of COMDEPOT's Virtual Core to the new Virtualized Business Continuity Service will enhance Collocation Solutions Mirrored Hot Site offering for Disaster Recovery IT back-up solutions by automating business continuity solutions through COMDEPOT's Virtual Core.

Collocation Solutions acquired COMDEPOT in February of 2004. The acquisition was part of Collocation Solutions' strategy to provide superior end-to-end business management solutions for their enterprise clients. The Virtualized Business Continuity Service, including security, network access and carrier options, allow their enterprise clients to seamlessly connect corporate headquarters, branch offices, remote users and business partners in a secure, highly scalable and cost effective manner.

"We have experienced more and more enterprise clients looking for Mirrored Hot Site solutions. In addition to our data center services they are looking for additional help with their Disaster Recovery communication services," said Tim Moore, vice president of Collocation Solutions. "The Virtual Core is a costeffective way for us to deliver Collocation Solutions robust network infrastructure and COMDEPOT's virtual security services to our customers in one package. We are now able to provide communication services, from initial network design to implementation and on-going monitoring, management and customer support."

As part of COMDEPOT's Virtual Core, the Virtualized Business Continuity Service enables COMDEPOT to deploy and adapt network infrastructure and security services in real time for its customers, allowing Collocation Solutions to become more responsive to its customer needs.

"Now you can go to one source for a completely integrated communications solution," said Steven Fahle, president of COMDEPOT. "We design our Virtual Core service based on a customer's specific technical and financial requirements using an extensive selection of network service providers and access technologies. The Enhanced Business Continuity Service allows our Collocation Solutions' Enterprise clients to have a fully integrated solution with maximum performance and reliability."