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Concentric's strategic partners are leaders in their industries
and they have helped us become a leader in ours. Through our partnerships,
we've enhanced our network and broadened our products, solutions,
and services. And, by combining our resources and expertise with
that of our partners, we can offer our customers the advantage of
more comprehensive, integrated, and powerful solutions.
Read further to learn about some of our strategic partnerships
and the excellent companies with which we work. Want to know how
we can increase your sales, drive your target market to your website,
and help you establish one-to-one relationships with your customers?
Write to our Corporate Sales
Group.
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Cisco
Cisco, the worldwide leader in Internet networking, is working
with us on several key technology initiatives. They include
CPN (Cisco Powered Networks) for ConcentricHost Services, Gigabit
Switch Router Deployment, DSL Termination/Aggregation, ISP-Expert,
and other joint marketing programs that are driving the new
Application Solutions Provider (ASP) initiative. Cisco also
plays an important role across our network and provides customer
premise equipment for our nationwide deployment of DSL services.
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Corio
As a leading ASP, Corio, Inc. provides business applications
for high-growth companies by delivering best-of-class tools
for managing rapid growth and change in business processes.
As Corio’s Preferred ASP Infrastructure Partner, we combined
our unique data center capabilities, operations expertise, and
network strength to provide a secure and reliable outsourced
infrastructure for Corio’s ASP business model. Together,
we have forged a strategic partnership and are driving the growing
ASP market.
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ClickAction
ClickAction’s Internet services help companies find new
customers and grow their businesses using the Internet. Through
our strategic partnership, ClickAction will co-brand our Web
hosting and e-commerce services and offer them through direct
marketing efforts to its more than one million registered small
business users, as well as its extensive retail distribution
channels. Similarly, we will provide its Web hosting and DSL
customers with ClickAction's Internet direct marketing tools.
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Covad
Covad Communications Company is the leading provider of high-speed,
always-on Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) based services with
increasing coverage in metropolitan areas across the country.
In partnership with Covad, we offer value-added, business-quality
DSL services for small- to medium-sized businesses. In addition
to simplifying the ordering, provisioning, installation and
billing processes, we offer our DSL customers a complimentary
Web hosting account.
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CyberCash
CyberCash, Inc., the world leader in e-commerce technologies
and services for merchants, entered an agreement with us to
deliver a completely integrated solution that will make it easy
for small- and medium-sized businesses to conduct real-time,
Internet transactions. This new best-of-breed solution will
streamline the process of bringing an e-commerce site online,
and make it easier and more cost effective for businesses to
take advantage of robust online credit card processing capabilities.
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GRIC
Communications
Through our strategic relationship with GRIC Communications,
we offer international roaming, and soon corporate remote access
and VPNs, to its customers through the GRIC Network. With the
addition of GRIC's more than 1,800 POPs in over 70 countries,
the Concentric IP dial network now reaches most of the business
critical markets around the world.
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Insight
Leading computer direct marketer Insight, a subsidiary of Insight
Enterprises, Inc., has teamed with us to deliver Web hosting
and e-commerce solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses
(SMB). Endorsing the ConcentricHost line of Web hosting and
e-commerce solutions marks the first such offering for Insight,
further augmenting Insight's extensive product selection of
over 100,000 brand name computer, hardware and software offerings.
Additionally, we will provide Insight's discount pricing to
its vast customer base, demonstrating our continued commitment
to facilitating the success of the SMB segment.
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INTERSHOP
Communications
INTERSHOP Communciations, a leading provider of electronic commerce
products, provides the core e-commerce capability for the ConcentricHost™
platform, streamlining and simplifying the process of launching
an e-commerce site for small- and medium-sized businesses. Through
the power of INTERSHOP's ePages cartridge for the INTERSHOP
3 Hosting Edition, ConcentricHost customers can easily construct
an online catalog. Moreover, users can effectively monitor their
e-commerce initiatives through extensive back office, inventory
tracking, customer management and reporting tools.
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Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers a venture capital firm
based in Menlo Park, California, made a strategic investment
in Concentric. Since 1972, the firm has raised over $1.2 billion
in capital and has invested in companies whose total market
value exceeds $80 billion. One of the most important elements
within KPCB's concept of value-added investing is access to
shared information through a network of more than 175 companies
and thousands of executives.
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Microsoft
Microsoft's products and services for business and personal
use are designed with the mission of making it easier and more
enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of
personal computing every day. We joined forces with Microsoft
on several projects, including the launch of the Internet Explorer
browser, the creation of a suite of our services that are based
on Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server, and the NetShow
client for streaming video applications.
We recently expanded our relationship with Microsoft by adopting
five major initiatives. These initiatives represent our dedication
to offering best-of-class, value-added services to our customers
and being a one-stop source for information and Internet services.
The initiatives include a co-branded version of the MSN™
portal for our dial-up and DSL subscribers; the development
and co-marketing of Microsoft® Windows NT® Server-based
application hosting services; a $7.5 million commitment by us
to advertise and promote Microsoft’s services via the MSN
network of Internet services; a $50 million investment by Microsoft
in Concentric; and a two-year extension of our current contract
to supply network services to WebTV®.
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Netopia
Netopia, Inc., a leader in providing Internet and e-Commerce
infrastructure to small- and medium-size businesses, provided
us with the browser-based site building technology behind ConcentricEasySite.
This site builder tool allows businesses to easily create their
Web site with access to professionally designed pre-formatted
vertical market content, graphics and picture libraries. As
part of the relationship, Netopia also selected us as its exclusive
Web hosting provider. This dedicated hosting arrangement will
provide Netopia with secure Web server facilities, scalable
bandwidth to the Internet and round-the-clock server monitoring,
management, file-system backup and reporting services.
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Nortel
Network
We selected Nortel Network's high-performance networking equipment
to support dial-up and dedicated access connections, and to
support internal routers within the backbone. Using Nortel Networks
backbone and remote access routers, intelligent hubs, remote
access servers and network management solutions, the Concentric
Network® is a high-functionality, high-performance solution
for virtual private networks and other intranet and extranet
applications.
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NorthPoint
Communications
NorthPoint Communications is one of the nation's fastest growing
competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC) focused on delivering
high-speed Internet access to businesses. Our partnership with
NorthPoint delivers DSL services to small and medium-sized businesses
nationwide. These services provide dedicated bandwidth at speeds
from 160 Kbps to 1.54 Mbps at highly competitive prices. As
a value-added service, we also provide a Web hosting account
plus simplified ordering, installation, and billing.
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Register.com
Register.com is one of the largest domain name registrars on
the Internet. Through a strategic partnership, our two companies
will make it simpler for small- and medium-sized companies to
register domain names while beginning the process of creating
and hosting web sites. This cross-marketing effort will lead
customers at the register.com site to information about ConcentricHost
services. In addition, our Web site has a link to register.com
and utilizes their services to register and reserve a domain
name
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SBC
Communications
SBC Communications is a global telecommunications leader, with
more than 34.5 million access lines and over 5.9 million wireless
customers across the United States. SBC is integrating our Internet-based
business data services and technology into its growing portfolio
of data products and services for business customers. We plan
to accelerate deployment of a complete suite of packet-switched,
Internet Protocol (IP)-based services such as Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs), Web hosting, shared software and electronic
commerce for business customers.
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Sony
Sony Communication Network of America, a division of Sony Electronics
Inc., has chosen us to provide wholesale dial for its implementation
of So-net (USA), Sony’s U.S.-based dial-up network. Sony
Communication Network of America will tap into our network of
more than 450 access numbers nationwide to promote So-net (USA),
a unique Internet service aimed at providing Japanese customers
in the U.S. with customized content and information.
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Williams
Communications Group
Williams Communications Group is an international provider of
multimedia network services and business communications solutions.
We have agreed to distribute products and to utilize each other's
network services and support operations. Specifically, we are
working with Williams to distribute services through their extensive
sales force and established customer base of more than 120,000
sites. We are also purchasing access to Williams’ nationwide
fiber-optic network in order to enhance the functionality of
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