PowerSchool Selects Wavve Internet Data Center to Provide Co-Location and High-Speed Internet Access - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

ISP Business, Nov, 2000

Wavve Telecommunications announced that Folsom, California-based PowerSchool, a provider of student information systems and an on-line community provider to K-12 schools, selected Wavve to host its co-location, redundant high-bandwidth Internet access and hosting application solutions.

"We are very pleased to be working with PowerSchool to provide them with outstanding co-location facilities and redundant high-bandwidth Internet access," said Bob Ingraham, Wavve's president and COO. "We designed our Internet data centers and application platforms to meet the needs of growing companies like PowerSchool that demand secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for their mission-critical applications."

The PowerSchool system provides parents, teachers, and students with real-time access to school activities and academic performance information. For K-12 school administrators, the system provides a paperless alternative to processing student information and simplifies administrative tasks such as compiling transcripts, attendance, report cards, and state reports. PowerSchool has been selected by 1,180 schools in 32 states and is used daily in 17,200 classrooms representing 900,000 loyal users.

Wavve's co-location services provide enterprise customers such as PowerSchool with the ability to gain reliable, scalable redundant fiber optic Internet access and provide virtual and physical security for their data communications equipment.

Wavve's Internet data centers facilitate a comprehensive array of managed data and voice services including co-location; scalable, high-speed redundant diverse fiber optic Internet access; network monitoring and management; call center and tech support services.

Wavve's Data Center Facilities specifications include:

- 24 x 365 comprehensive physical and virtual security

- N 1 fault tolerant electrical power

- Seismic upgrades

- 100 percent redundant parallel UPS systems

- 120 V and 208 V alternating current dedicated circuits

- Advanced infrared heat/fire/smoke detection

- 99.999 percent server uptime availability

- Data Grade HVAC

- Open rack, enclosed cabinet, and custom configurations