The agreement guarantees space in Broadwing's Dallas and Austinoffice for StorageProvider, which also will have use of Broadwing'sInternet infrastructure. The Internet infrastructure willfacilitate secure site-to-site data transfers at high speed.

"Broadwing's experience, state-of-the-art data centercollocation facilities, and industry-leading Internet backboneenable us to provide our customers with the appropriate levels offlexibility, scalability and security," says Reagan Dixon,co-founder and CEO of StorageProvider. "Broadwing's capabilitiesexceed our criteria for providing collocation services to addressour customers' business-critical requirements as StorageProvidergrows."

Broadwing Communications' data center collocation facilities areconsidered among the most technologically advanced in the world,utilizing a core coast-to-coast fiber-optic IP backbone. BroadwingCommunications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadwing Inc.,which has headquarters in Austin and Cincinnati and is supported by56 sales offices nationwide.