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GTS Telecom finalizes the first faze of the Bucharest DataCenter extension

Bucharest, February 2010 -GTS Telecom part of GTS Central Europe, one of the regional leading telecom operator, has completed the first phase of the DataCenter expansion project. Finalizing the DataCenter extension, GTS Telecom offers to the customers a supplementary net collocation area of about 150sqm, corresponding to a number of 70 racks.

Started 3 months ago, the project of DataCenter extension is part of the multi-annual strategy for the enlargement of the hosting and collocation area. All the provided facilities in the DataCenter and the technical execution conditions are made according to Tier 4 international standard classification in domain. The extension plan was made with a modular development and an execution in two phases. All the extension area is comprised next to the existing DataCenter, and will reach a total of 216 sqm.

The DataCenter is build on top of the GTS Telecom backbone in Bucharest with a 82.5 Gbit/sec bandwidth, and interconnected throughout the national infrastructure and the GTS CE fibre optic network, directly to the European interconnection points in Frankfurt and Vienna. The management of the hosted applications and equipments is made directly over the Internet or from the Console Room already available in the DataCenter.
GTS DataCenter features state-of-the-art conditions, including cooling and air-conditioning systems, fire detection and extinguishing systems with inert gases; independent power supply from different sources, backed-up by UPSs and diesel power generator, providing in rack 220V or, by customers’ request, 380V or 48V. The DataCenter security is provided by access monitoring systems and 24 x 7 physical security guards, video monitoring and internal TV circuits.

"The DataCenter is the foundation of implementation of mission critical, e-commerce, content delivery applications for multinationals, an essential building block for driving business growth and cost reductions," said Dan Mihăescu, CEO with GTS Telecom. "Investing in the development of own infrastructure, GTS increases its ability to help customers transform and develop their own businesses, independently of the dimension and domain."

About GTS Central Europe
GTS Central Europe (GTS CE) is a multi-layered infrastructure-based provider of integrated telecommunications solutions for those countries of Central and Eastern Europe lying between Frankfurt and Istanbul. Using its own regional fiber network, GTS CE provides fixed voice, data, IP, MPLS and broadband services primarily targeting business customers, as well as services for other telecom carriers, mobile operators and content providers. GTS CE’s primary countries of operation are the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, with network extensions and local partnerships involving the neighboring countries of Ukraine, the Baltic States, Bulgaria, Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Moldova and Turkey.
GTS Central Europe received three times the Best Wholesale Provider Award in Europa Centrală şi de Răsărit în anii 2005, 2007 şi 2009.

GTS CE has more than 1300 employees with EUR 436m revenue and EUR 77m EBITDA in 2008. For further information, please visit www.gtsce.com.

One Network - One Region – One Offer
GTS Central Europe has an unrivalled footprint within Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and offers its customers and partners equally unrivalled reach and accessibility within the CEE region, achieved through an extensive international portfolio. Further, as one brand serving an entire region, you benefit from simplicity, cost-savings and efficiency that is not always achievable if you use multiple suppliers for your solution. If you see CEE as one region, you should use just one network. GTS CE: Your one-stop solution.

About GTS Telecom
Part of GTS Central Europe, and positioned on the market as Business AcceleratorTM, the company deploys on the Business segment a full range of carrier and corporate networking solutions based on MPLS, DWDM, SDH, TCP/IP, Frame Relay, Internet services, voice, hosting and collocation in own DataCenter.
ISO 9001 certified GTS deploys end-to-end managed solutions with guaranteed quality (SLA). In 2009 the average SLA level for all deployed solutions was 99.92%.

The company is directly interconnected to GTS Central Europe through its own fibre-optic cross-border network, and from here, up to the interconnection PoPs in Frankfurt and Vienna.

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