Macquarie Telecom provides 100% up time for Winter Olympics website

Sydney, Australia – 24th February 2006 – Macquarie Telecom has delivered 100 per cent up time for Winter Olympic's website – winterolympics.seven.com.au – a component of Channel 7's coverage of the event.

The site, which features live results, video streaming, gallery and SMS alerts, is designed to keep Australian winter sports fans up to date with the latest event results, medal tallies and news. The live information updates are aggregated from a broad range of sources including Channel 7, AAP and Reuters.

Macquarie Telecom was engaged by a local web development company to provide secure, high-availability, managed hosting services for the website, winterolympics.seven.com.au.

The availability and stability of the site are maximised by a "burstable" Internet pipe which allows access to higher levels of bandwidth during spikes in traffic. Macquarie Telecom also provides redundant switches and firewalls, and managed load balancing to ensure up time.

The data-heavy site is connected to Macquarie Telecom's multi-gigabit Internet gateway for high-speed data services – enabling fast downloads of images and streaming.

winterolympics.seven.com.au is hosted out of Macquarie Telecom's state-of-the-art data centre, the Intellicentre – one of the most highly certified and secure facilities in the southern hemisphere.

“For our managed hosting customers a website is more than just a straight content play. It's about applications that assist users to access information and resources online that they couldn't get elsewhere,” said Greg Thomson, Executive Manager Hosting and Security at Macquarie Telecom.

“Critical to this are high levels of availability, security and redundancy. Whether our customers need online access to interface with their mobile sales force, connect with partners, provide e-commerce capabilities or deliver comprehensive coverage of the Winter Olympics, they demand Internet access that is available and fast.”

“Macquarie Telecom has an extremely strong track record in delivering these services to some of Australia's leading businesses and government organisations,” said Thomson.

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For more information:
Mandy Galmes
N2N Communications
02 9213 2302
agalmes@n2n.com.au

About Macquarie Telecom
Macquarie Telecom is a leading supplier of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions – including voice, data, mobile and hosting – specialising in the business and government markets. The world class Intellicentre facility offers state-of-the-art hosting and security solutions. The Intellicentre is certified to BS 7799 and DSD Gateway security standards.

Macquarie Telecom provides services to more than 2,500 of the top companies in Australia and Asia, supporting more than one million business users at work every day. Founded in July 1992, it is one of Australasia's first deregulated telecommunications companies. It expanded its operation into Asia in 2000, and holds carrier licences in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.