“The Planet” announces $7 million network infrastructure investment.

The Planet provides network and data centers for a wide range of customers. The Planet has now announced plans to invest $7 million into their Houston and Dallas properties, enhancing their network infrastructure. The plan will vastly increase the number of 10 Gig-E links the company utilizes. Colocation and managed hosting customers should also expect to see capacity upgrades in the near future.

Douglas J. Erwin, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of The Planet, said:

“Our network and data centers are core to the value we provide customers, and over the past three years, we’ve made significant investments to improve speed, reduce latency and ultimately provide the best customer experience. Even with these investments, our growth has outpaced requirements as customers place more demands on our network. Ultimately we’ll deliver improvements in orders of magnitude that offer increased capacity, and even more resilience and fault tolerance.”

The Planet expects to being the upgrades in March, and finish them before the end of the year.