NASA Selects Qwest to Upgrade Its Network

ARLINGTON, Va. – Aug. 10, 2009 – NASA has made a $14.2 million contract award to Qwest Government Services, a subsidiary of Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q), to upgrade the federal agency’s Corporate Backbone circuits from 2.5Gbps to 10Gbps.

 KEY FACTS

·         The NASA Corporate Backbone is the high-speed broadband network that provides corporate wide area network transport for e-mail, collaboration, and scientific, financial and business applications for the agency’s headquarters, field centers, and numerous facilities and partner locations across the country and the world. 

·         The circuits comprise a large portion of the NASA Corporate Backbone in terms of capacity and connectivity.

·         Qwest’s OWS (Optical Wave Services) approach provides flexibility and can be adapted to almost any architecture (ring, mesh or linear).

·         NASA determined that the Qwest solution offered significant benefits in terms of mission suitability.

·         Total award is $14.2 million for eight years and was made under Qwest’s U.S. General Services Administration’s Networx Universal contract.

SUPPORTING QUOTES

Diana Gowen, Qwest Government Services, Senior Vice President and General Manager:
“Qwest provides a nationwide wavelength infrastructure that will provide NASA with a broad range of technical capabilities for supporting the International Space Station and other missions into the frontiers of space.”

SUPPORTING RESOURCES

·         Qwest Optical Wave Services

·         Qwest Solutions for Networx

·         NASA

About Qwest Government Services

Qwest Government Services offers a comprehensive suite of products and services for all agencies of the federal government. The Qwest network covers the entire continental United States and has one of the largest fiber footprints in the U.S., capable of supporting 40 Gbps data transmission rates. Qwest participates in Networx, the largest government communications services contract in the world, and is #55 on the “Top 100 Government IT Contractors” by Washington Technology. For more information about Qwest’s proven performance in the federal marketplace, go to Qwest.com/business.

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