5/21/07
XO Communications to Provide High Capacity Network Services to China Netcom USA
RESTON, VA - XO Communications today announced that it has signed an agreement with China Netcom (USA) Operations Ltd. (“China Netcom USA”) to provide high capacity network services across the United States. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, XO Communications will provide China Netcom USA with multiple inter-city XO® Wavelength Services at 2.5 Gigabits per second speeds across a nationwide footprint connecting China Netcom’s points of presence in the United States.
China Netcom is China’s leading broadband and telecommunications company and a leading international data communications operator for multinational business customers. In addition, China Netcom’s USA Operations provides clients with direct IP connectivity to CNC domestic China IP network as well as IPL and MPLS VPN capabilities between the USA and China.
“We selected XO Communications because its nationwide network offers the reliability and scalability to support our growing bandwidth requirements in the United States,” said Lou Xiaohang, President of China Netcom USA.
“We are very pleased to be selected by China Netcom USA as a major network infrastructure provider,” said Ernie Ortega, president of XO Carrier Services. “The investments XO has made in its network give customers like China Netcom the capacity and scalability to grow their business over XO’s extremely robust, next generation network.”
With one of the largest and most advanced IP networks in the United States, XO Communications offers cable companies, carriers, content providers, large enterprises and wireless service providers a broad range of high capacity network transport services, including Ethernet, IP Transit, Private Line and Wavelengths. XO Communications continually invests in its network to offer customers the most advanced, reliable and scalable network infrastructure to support their current and future bandwidth and communications service requirements.
For more information about XO Carrier Services, go to www.xo.com/products/carrier or contact an XO Carrier Services sales representative by calling (800) 474-1763.
About China Netcom
As an official partner of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China Netcom is one of China’s leading broadband communications and fixed-line telecommunications operators. Its northern service region consists of Beijing Municipality and Tianjin Municipality, as well as the provinces of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Neimenggu Autonomous Region (Inner Mongolia) and Shanxi. In all of these regions, the Company is the dominant provider of fixed-line telephone services, broadband and other Internet-related services, as well as business and data communications services. Its southern service region consists of Shanghai Municipality and Guangdong Province. In these regions, the Company focuses on providing telecommunications services to enterprises and high usage residential customers in selected densely populated areas.
About China Netcom USA Operations LTD
China Netcom USA Operations LTD is China Netcom’s local operating unit in North America, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. With points of presence in Los Angeles, San Jose and New York City, China Netcom USA offers services include International Private Line Service from US to China and Asia Pacific, Direct connectivity to China Netcom’s domestic China IP network and MPLS / VPN services to China.
About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO.OB), is a leading provider of national and local telecommunications services to businesses, large enterprises and communications service providers. XO offers a broad portfolio of services, including local and long distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking, data transport, and Web hosting services as well as bundled voice and Internet solutions. XO provides these services over an advanced, nationwide facilities-based IP network and serves 75 metropolitan markets ac ross the United States. For more information, visit www.xo.com.
For more information contact:
Chad Couser / XO Communications
703-547-2746
chad.couser@xo.com