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

"Broadwing's experience, state-of-the-art data center collocation facilities, and industry-leading Internet backbone enable us to provide our customers with the appropriate levels of flexibility, scalability and security," says Reagan Dixon, co-founder and CEO of StorageProvider. "Broadwing's capabilities exceed our criteria for providing collocation services to address our customers' business-critical requirements as StorageProvider grows."

Broadwing Communications' data center collocation facilities are considered among the most technologically advanced in the world, utilizing a core coast-to-coast fiber-optic IP backbone. Broadwing Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadwing Inc., which has headquarters in Austin and Cincinnati and is supported by 56 sales offices nationwide.