XO Communications, Inc., a provider of telecommunications services, and NEXL Network Systems, an IT solutions provider, today announced an alliance to offer businesses end-to-end managed hosting solutions, from the network through to the managed application level.

Under a multi-year agreement, XO and NEXL will co-market and sell each other's services through XO direct and indirect sales channels and NEXL's direct sales force. NEXL becomes the provider of complex managed services to XO managed hosting customers, and XO becomes a preferred provider of data center and network services to NEXL customers.

The companies will offer these solutions to new customers that want to outsource the hosting and management of their web-based applications. Customers will be hosted within secure and fully redundant XO data centers, which are directly connected to the XO IP network. NEXL will design, implement and manage the solutions, delivering a wide range of managed application, security and storage
services.

"By creating this alliance with NEXL Network Systems, XO can continue to offer businesses the latest in outsourced managed hosting solutions, from design and implementation to the day-to-day management of their applications and equipment," said Barbara Branaman, Vice President and General Manager of XO Communications' hosting business unit. "NEXL's leading managed offerings complement XO's data center and networking expertise, together allowing us to provide customers a single source solution for outsourcing their mission-critical applications."