Digital Island
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Digital Island Communications is a 100% Kiwi owned business telecommunications provider based in Auckland, New Zealand. Winners of the Deloitte Fast 50 awards for "Fastest growing technology company" in 2008, and "Fastest growing telecommunications business" in 2007, Digital Island also placed overall for 3 consecutive years in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and placed in the Vero Excellence in Business Awards in 2010.
Digital Island provides New Zealand businesses with a range of business grade internet access products (Fibre, SHDSL, Wireless, ADSL, SIP Trunking) which enable the delivery of Wide Area Networks such as Open Office, VoIP, and IP PBX systems. In addition to these data services Digital Island provide a full range of Mobile Phone Services and Voice Calling products (toll calling, phone lines, pbx phone systems, conference calling, and fax-to-email). Located at 8 Nugent Street, Grafton, Auckland, Digital Island began operating in 2004. See www.digitalisland.co.nz for more information.
Digital Island was an American high-end managed web hosting, private network
ing and Content Delivery Network
(CDN) provider. From its founding in 1996, Digital Island created a high-availability web application hosting network for top-tier customers throughout the world. Notably, Digital Island succeeded in delivering high-performance web services under a usage-based pricing model. Digital Island was purchased by Cable & Wireless America
. The assets and customers of Cable & Wireless America were then purchased by SAVVIS
, who sold the CDN product-line to Level 3 Communications
in January 2007.
Digital Island provides New Zealand businesses with a range of business grade internet access products (Fibre, SHDSL, Wireless, ADSL, SIP Trunking) which enable the delivery of Wide Area Networks such as Open Office, VoIP, and IP PBX systems. In addition to these data services Digital Island provide a full range of Mobile Phone Services and Voice Calling products (toll calling, phone lines, pbx phone systems, conference calling, and fax-to-email). Located at 8 Nugent Street, Grafton, Auckland, Digital Island began operating in 2004. See www.digitalisland.co.nz for more information.
Digital Island was an American high-end managed web hosting, private network
Private network
In the Internet addressing architecture, a private network is a network that uses private IP address space, following the standards set by RFC 1918 and RFC 4193. These addresses are commonly used for home, office, and enterprise local area networks , when globally routable addresses are not...
ing and Content Delivery Network
Content Delivery Network
A content delivery network or content distribution network is a system of computers containing copies of data placed at various nodes of a network....
(CDN) provider. From its founding in 1996, Digital Island created a high-availability web application hosting network for top-tier customers throughout the world. Notably, Digital Island succeeded in delivering high-performance web services under a usage-based pricing model. Digital Island was purchased by Cable & Wireless America
Cable & Wireless
Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Bracknell, United Kingdom. Cable & Wireless specialises in providing communication networks and services to large corporates, governments, carrier customers and resellers...
. The assets and customers of Cable & Wireless America were then purchased by SAVVIS
SAVVIS
Savvis – A CenturyLink Company is a subsidiary of CenturyLink, a company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. Savvis provides information technology solutions for enterprises and government agencies...
, who sold the CDN product-line to Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications is a telecommunications and Internet service provider headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.It operates a Tier 1 network. The company provides core transport, IP, voice, video and content delivery for most of the medium to large Internet carriers in North America and Europe...
in January 2007.