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Backbone Directory:
CAIS Internet, Inc. (Ardent)

CAIS Internet is headquartered in Washington, DC, with two subsidiaries in California, CAIS Software Solutions and Business Anywhere. It operates a Cisco-Powered, clear-channel Internet and ATM Network, and peers with public and private partners, and at national exchange points. .

The CAIS Internet backbone encompasses 31 major cities interconnected with OC-12, OC-3, ATM and DS-3 circuits.

The company uses the Cisco 12008 GSR series routers for the core backbone connections and the Cisco 7206 VXR series routers as gateway-customer aggregation routers.

Current Network Status

CAIS offers Full or Fractional T1—standard, managed and burstable, Full or Fractional T3—standard, managed and burstable, DSL—144Kbps to 1.5Mbps, Two-way VSAT technology—minimum 128Kbps upstream and 256Kbps downstream, Dial-up Server Colocation, E-mail, Webhosting, and Broadband access to hotels and apartment complexes (MDUs). It also offers a 99.5% service availability guarantee.

CAIS does not peer with transit customers. Next-hop-self and consistent routing announcements at all exchange points are expected. CAIS filters RFC 1918 announcements—and several others such as localhost, 128.0.0.0/16, etc., inbound and outbound. Defaulting and other unethical practices are not tolerated.

Domestic interconnection points
[Chicago] Ameritech Chicago NAP
[Dallas] MAE Central
[San Jose, CA] MAE West
[Washington, DC] MAE East

Global interconnection points
[Amsterdam, NE] AMS-IX
[Frankfurt DE] CIX
[London, UK] LINX-Digex
[Sweden] Stockholm MAE
[Tokyo, JP] JPIX

Major hub cities
[U.S.] Chicago, Dallas, McLean, VA, New York, Sunnyvale, CA, Washington DC

Corporate contact info
[Technical Support] (888) 947.CAIS
[Network Op Center] support@cais.com
[Network Status Report] Current
[Report Abuse] Send copy of the email to customer@cais.com
[Corporate Address] 1255 22nd St. NW Washington, DC 20037
[Voice] (202) 715-1300
[Fax] (202) 463-7190
[Tollfree] (888) 260-CAIS
[Sales] Email Dedicated Access/DSL
[ISP Services] Products
[Executive] William M. Caldwell IV CEO and President
[Financial] Stock exchange symbol: CAIS
[Press Releases] News

Related articles
	[Oct. 12, 2001]	Ardent Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
	[July 10, 2001]	CAIS Secures Bridge Loan
	[May 30, 2001]	CAIS Internet Reinvents Itself
	[May 8, 2000]	Increasing Interest in Supplying Airport and Hotel Access

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