Backbone Directory: PSINet

One of the few firms to engineer its network specifically for Internet applications, PSINet sets itself apart from telephone companies, systems integrators, and other backbone providers.

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Headquartered in suburban Washington, DC, PSINet is a major presence in the international Internet community, with more than 800 points-of-presence and operations in United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia. It consumer and commercial Internet services on a private-label basis to a community of more than 4,000 US-based ISPs and 500 large telecom providers. PSINet's wholesale network services are delivered via more than 250 U.S. Points of Presence, which provide access PSINet's global fiber Internet network. The company also supports transit and peering agreements to ensure a free and open Internet for users and providers.

ISPs that wish to partner with PSINet must complete an assessment survey to determine which programs suit the potential partner's needs, and build a sales contact list for PSINet, of course. PSINet's services include corporate Internet access and private IP networking, managed Internet security, Web and database hosting services, e-commerce solutions, voice, fax, streaming audio and video, and other applications.

In August 2000, PSINet debuted its application services offering. Unlike rivals like UUNET and AT&T, which offer collocation and hosting services only to ASPs, PSINet offers hosted application services directly to enterprise customers. In this case, he ISP competes directly with ASPs including Applicast, Corio and USinternetworking.

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