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By Carolyn Duffy Marsan 04/23/01
Talk about enterprise experience. Founded by former EMC
executives, GiantLoop Network recruited
its team of 300-plus employees from heavyweights such as Cisco, Comdisco, KPMG,
Nortel Networks, Oracle and Sun. All come with an understanding of the
challenges facing enterprise IT shops,GiantLoop's target customers.
Since June 2000, GiantLoop has been selling managed
optical-network services to large companies that need to send system and
storage traffic between data centers. A typical customer is Options Clearing,
which uses GiantLoop's service to send mission-critical data between two
data centers.
GiantLoop operates fiber-optic backbones in Boston,
Chicago, Dallas, London, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The company
says it will extend into other cities and add new IP services, but won't
elaborate on those plans.
GiantLoop's challenge is convincing IT managers
they can outsource data center connectivity without sacrificing reliability. A
plus for customers, GiantLoop says, is that they'll save money over a
three- to five-year period.
Because it has such a serious sell, GiantLoop acts like
a serious company. GiantLoop is highly disciplined and process-oriented for a
start-up. Indeed, the management team has structured GiantLoop to scale quickly
in hopes that it won't be a small company for long.
GiantLoop Network The name: |
An extension of the network terms “local
loop” and “metro loop.”
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