8/28/07
Wine.com Toasts IP Convergence with XO Communications
Nation’s #1 Online Wine Store Blends Voice and Data Networks with XO MPLS IP-VPN
RESTON, VA - XO Communications, a leading provider of 21st century communications for businesses and communications service providers, today announced that it has delivered a nationwide MPLS-enabled wide area networking solution for Wine.com, the nation’s #1 online wine store.
By consolidating networking services with XO MPLS IP-VPN, Wine.com has a more scalable network that provides faster data speeds, prioritizes business-critical data, and delivers improved cost-efficiencies by converging voice and data traffic over a single IP network infrastructure. The private wide area network designed by XO connects nine locations across the country and supports the company’s IP voice traffic, Internet access and data traffic, including customer orders through www.wine.com that are carried over the network to the company’s warehouses for processing.
“Our partnership with XO allows us to have high speed fault-tolerant connectivity across multiple warehouses enabling Wine.com to timely fulfill customer orders and maintain a world-class level of customer satisfaction,” said Sumeet Bansal, vice president of IT at Wine.com.
With XO’s nationwide reach and services capabilities, Wine.com has been able to streamline the management of its network with a single provider. In addition to supporting the networking requirements of Wine.com, XO also provides collocation hosting services that help power Wine.com as the nation’s leading online wine store.
“With the wine country in our backyard, XO is very excited to enter into this partnership with Wine.com,” said Rob McCarthy, XO’s vice president of sales for northern California. “XO is committed to providing customers with advanced networking solutions that can meet their requirements today and tomorrow. With our nationwide network and breadth of services, XO is ideally suited to help Wine.com accomplish its goals.”
XO MPLS IP-VPN offers businesses and large enterprises a secure, intelligent and managed network to connect offices, customers and partners and converge a wide range of voice, video and data applications over a single IP network infrastructure. XO MPLS IP-VPN provides a wide range of access options to connect locations and flexible classes of services to prioritize Internet, intranet, extranet, voice, video and mission-critical business applications – all over a single, high performance application-aware IP network.
Key benefits of XO MPLS IP-VPN include:
- Nationwide Coverage – Broad coverage with service availability in 75 metropolitan markets across the United States
- Flexible and Scalable Network Architecture – MPLS-based network architecture provides any-to-any connectivity among all sites and automatically sets up pathways to new sites.
- Broad Range of Access Options – Customers can utilize the service with Dedicated Internet Access at speeds from T-1 through OC-X and Ethernet services.
- Robust Classes of Service – Optimize data traffic flows to support any type of application with one flat rate for access to all four classes of service.
- Fully Managed – Reduces total cost of ownership and provides 24x7 monitoring of network facilities and equipment.
For more information about XO MPLS IP-VPN or other XO services go to www.xo.com, or contact an XO sales representative by calling (866) 963-9696.
About Wine.com
Wine.com is the nation’s #1 online wine retailer, offering thousands of wines, wine gifts, gift baskets and monthly wine clubs. Wine.com’s mission is to be the ultimate resource for the wine enthusiast, whether shopping for themselves or sending a gift. To this end, the company has been an innovator in providing online tools and content to make it easy and fun to discover and buy wine. Wine.com is the world's most visited wine web site, according to research conducted by comScore Media Metrix. For more information, visit www.wine.com.
About XO Communications
XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: XOHO.OB), is a leading provider of 21st century communications services for businesses and communications services providers, including 50 percent of the Fortune 500 and leading cable companies, carriers, content providers, and mobile operators. Utilizing its unique and powerful nationwide IP network and extensive local metro networks and broadband wireless facilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services in 75 metropolitan markets across 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
