Dec. 17, 2001 -- Sprint Corp. capped a year of expansion with the opening this week of its Los Angeles E|Solutions web hosting center.
The 93,000-square-foot Internet data center, housed in Infomart's Los Angeles carrier hotel, is the 10th facility that Sprint E|Solutions has opened across the country this year. A formal grand-opening event is scheduled for Jan. 16.
"The Southern California Internet Center is the culmination of a year-long campaign to build a nationwide fabric of hosting facilities that fuel our customers' e|business success," said Keith Paglusch, president of Sprint E|Solutions. "With the Los Angeles location online, we now have nationwide capabilities to accelerate the implementation and ROI of our customers' mission critical e|business initiatives."
The Los Angeles site joins other operational Sprint E|Solutions Internet Centers in Silicon Valley, New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, Reston, Va., and Sacramento, Calif.
With its recent growth, Sprint is seeking to capitalize on the "flight to quality" in the managed hosting and colocation space, which has been rocked by financial problems affecting numerous service providers that overexpanded during the dot-com gold rush.
Infomart spent $60 million to purchase and convert the historic Terminal Annex building - formerly the primary postal facility for Los Angeles - into a 479,000 square foot technology center.
Sprint has more than $23 billion in annual revenues, has 80,000 employees and serves 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries.