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PAETEC Holding Corp. a Fortune 1000 company recently announced the opening of a new data center in Milwaukee, Wis. PAETEC (News - Alert) currently has existing data centers in Bethlehem and Conshohocken, Pa., Andover, Mass., and a center in Houston that opened in September. PAETEC's data center solutions are hosted in its highly secure central office and data center colocation sites around the country.

PAETEC, which offers a comprehensive suite of IP, voice, data, and Internet services, as well as enterprise communications management software, network security solutions, CPE, and managed services announced that the new center will extend its services beyond Milwaukee. The center plans to offer colocation for enterprise businesses throughout the Midwestern U.S. including Chicago, Madison, St. Louis, and the Twin (News - Alert) Cities, the company informed.

In a press release, PAETEC announced that its new data center is located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee and utilizes approximately 3,000 square feet of PAETEC's office space located in downtown Milwaukee. PAETEC further informed that the Milwaukee center has connections to 1,200 amps of incoming power from the local utility company, and is backed up by a Detroit Diesel 800-kilowatt generator and supported by a 24/7 Technical Assistance Center (TAC). To keep the center at an optimum temperature for customer equipment, the center will start with 120 tons of cooling capacity.

It will be providing the customers with a secure facility for their critical data, networking, and communications infrastructure.

In order meet with customers’ various data needs, the center will offer full cabinets and half cabinets. Each customer's cabinet will have clean power delivered to it from an isolated circuit, which will allow for top-of-the-line performance.

The company will offer a range of services including space, power, and connectivity to private networks or the Internet. Value added services such as Data Backup and Recovery and Shared Web Hosting will also be available.

In addition, customers can work with PAETEC to develop personalized hosted server and storage solutions.

“We looked at many sites in the mid-west, but ultimately determined that this location in Milwaukee would best support the needs of our customers. This new data center extends our unmatched support of customers' ever-changing and more complex needs with regards to data storage, security, and the shift towards cloud computing,” said president of PAETEC's central region, Jeff Howe, in a astatement.

In the release, PAETEC announced that the continued expansion into 2011 is also expected, with a new planned facility in Phoenix.

Earlier this year, Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert)., the research and consulting firm awarded the prestigious 2010 Customer Value Enhancement Award to PAETEC  Holding for its Voice over IP Access (News - Alert) and Session Initiated Protocol Trunking Services.