Expands capacity to 500 Gbps to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand.

LeaseWeb, a hosting provider, today announced that it has more than doubled the capacity of its hosting network: from 210 Gbps to 500 Gbps. The company says that the doubling was necessary in order to facilitate the exponential growth in bandwidth demand from existing and new clients. It explained that it has expanded its capacity to 500 Gbps by purchasing additional port capacity from telecom carriers and internet exchanges.
 
"October in particular showed a rapid increase in new clients and bandwidth usage," says Pieter Dijkhuis, Finance Director of LeaseWeb. "In that respect, October was definitely not a recession month for us. We expect continued strong growth going forward."

"Bandwidth availability is a key requirement for many clients to be able to expand their Web environment," says Dijkhuis. "This is equally important as the available datacenter space and inventories of network and server equipment. Our proposition is designed to meet those requirements. We have ample space available in our CO2-neutral EvoSwitch datacenter, among other facilities, and we maintain large inventories of equipment for clients such as HP, Dell and Cisco."