The planet today formally announced plans to spend over $ 7 million to upgrade the network infrastructure in Houston and Dallas, operating their cities. The company plans capital investments in improvements of network capacity, expanding infrastructure for its solutions and Virtual Private Rack, new routers and switches, and platforms of evidence to evaluate solutions. To enhance network resilience and capacity, the company plans to double the number of 10 Gig-E links connecting its data centers with Internet service providers. Also planned are improvements in capacity and functionality to meet the demands of traffic unprecedented use of their placement and managed hosting customers.

Planet operates seven data centers – two in Houston and five in Dallas – with 179,000 square feet of raised floor, and additional capacity in London to virtual rack customers. Approximately 44 percent of the company’s business comes from outside North America and operates the network of points of presence in East and West coasts to improve network performance and reduce latency.
“Our network of data centers are critical to the value they provide to customers, and in the last three years we have made significant investments to improve the speed, reduce latency and ultimately provide the best customer experience”, said the president of the planet and the Chief Officer Douglas J. Erwin. “Even with these investments, our growth has exceeded customer requirements, such as place more demands on our network. Ultimately we will offer improvements in orders of magnitude greater capacity and offer more resistance and fault tolerance.

The improvements will be completed in phases, starting in March, with completion scheduled for late 2010