Zama Networks Announces 'Data Fort'

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

August 21, 2000 -- Zama Networks, Inc., a rapidly growing provider of Internet infrastructure, today announced the opening of its new worldwide headquarters building and state-of-the-art Internet Data Fort facility in Seattle.
Zama's Internet Data Fort is a 56,000 square foot building located in the new International Gateway Complex, an advanced telecom campus south of downtown Seattle at the convergence of six different existing optical fiber routes.
The center's four floors house Zama's administrative offices, network operation center, and data center co-location space for customer networking equipment.
Constructed as the first concrete step in deploying Zama Networks' next-generation Internet backbone planned for North America and Asia, the Internet Data Fort will serve as the nerve center for companies that co-locate their network servers, routers, and switchgear in the data center.
Zama Networks is an Internet infrastructure and services company focused on building and operating a next-generation Internet backbone network using owned hubs and nodes connected by leased transport links.
"We have designed our Data Fort to provide better-than-carrier quality,"' said Dennis Okamoto, CEO of Zama Networks. "Our demands for reliability and security for the Zama IP backbone drove us to build the most robust network operating center possible. By including space specifically designed for co-location services, our customers will be able to benefit from these high standards also.''
The building has been custom designed to current seismic zone standards and is 1.5 miles from the nearest LEC central office with ready access to multiple LEC tandem offices. It has redundant 48v DC and 120v AC with battery backup and twin 2,000KVA diesel generators.
Zama is based in Seattle, Washington and was incorporated in 1998. The company will initially concentrate on markets in the Asia-Pacific region and North America, serving cross-border traffic. Ultimately, Zama hopes to extend its network to Europe and other key markets in the world as demand develops for Zama's broadband network capabilities.