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129: 25: 275:, Japan's first ISP, launched in 1994 by a Canadian entrepreneur, Roger J. Boisvert together with his wife, Yuriko Hiraguri. Exodus opened its Tokyo IDC in April 2000 together with Nomura Research Institute. In September 2000, the company bought GlobalCenter, 233:. Exodus went public in 1998 amid massive business growth (40% quarterly growth over 13 quarters) and achieved a peak market value of approximately $ 32 billion US dollars in 2000. Along with many of its customers, Exodus experienced the bursting of the 566: 294:
to Japanese VoIP operator Fusion Communications, merging its existing consumer Internet and VoIP efforts to create Fusion Network Services. The Fusion group was later acquired by Rakuten Group.
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came into existence. The tape backup portion of the DataVault business unit was acquired by Sanrise Inc. Exodus Communications built and operated the first truly global anycast
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The company created and enabled many "firsts" for the "modern Internet", including the first "storage as a service" cloud service branded as DataVault in partnership with
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Exodus acquired American Information Systems, Cohesive, Arca Systems, and Network-1's professional services division. In December 1999, Exodus headed by
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unit, for $ 6.5 billion in stock. By the time the deal closed in January 2001, the stock was only worth $ 1.95 billion.
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In March 2004, Cable and Wireless America, including the Exodus assets, were acquired by
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provider that provided retail and commercial server colocation and was an
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in 1999, using its globally deployed BGP autonomous system.
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Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001
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