SingleHop Announces New Partnership with TeliaSonera

CHICAGO, Nov. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SingleHop, a global IT services and cloud hosting company that offers highly scalable, automated, on-demand infrastructure services to both businesses and resellers, today announced a new partnership with leading global telecommunications provider, TeliaSonera. TeliaSonera is one of the premier Tier 1 providers in the world, providing network access and telecom services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, and the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain.

Founded in 2006, SingleHop has pioneered the global Cloud IaaS movement by enabling businesses and service providers in the design, deployment and management of a wide range of Hosted Infrastructure solutions. SingleHop's proprietary automation platform allows organizations to quickly migrate or deploy workloads on a highly scalable environment tailored to the organization's needs. By integrating its secure global data center footprint, robust remote management toolkit, and industry-leading SLAs, SingleHop helps clients manage their systems while creating better economic efficiencies.

The partnership is designed to continue to evolve SingleHop's international network reach and carrier diversity, as well as to provide additional redundancy and overall flexibility of SingleHop's network, according to Austin Wilson, Director of Network Operations for SingleHop.

"By teaming up with TeliaSonera, we are now able to give SingleHop clients more routes and a solid Tier 1 provider, which enhances our overall network capacity," Wilson said.

According to Andy Pace, Chief Operating Officer, SingleHop, the new partnership is one of many SingleHop network enhancements expected over the course of the next year.

"Our ultimate goal is to increase visibility and customer reach, as well as to improve latency, performance and flexibility within our network," Pace said. "With that said, we are focused on the big picture, and look forward to establishing even more partnerships in the coming months," Pace said.

SingleHop's global presence, high-caliber security and redundancy, extensive automation, and onsite engineers have made the company a rising star in the IaaS industry. Ranked #3 in Crain's Fast Fifty, a definitive listing of the Chicago area's fastest growing companies, SingleHop was recently named to the CRN 500, an annual listing of the top IT channel providers in North America.

To learn more about IaaS solutions from SingleHop, visit www.singlehop.com.

About TeliaSonera
TeliaSonera provides network access and telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain. TeliaSonera helps people and companies communicate in an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly way. Our ambition is to be number one or two in all our markets, providing the best customer experience, high quality networks and cost efficient operations. TeliaSonera is also the leading European wholesale provider with a wholly-owned international carrier network. In 2012, net sales amounted to SEK 105 billion, EBITDA to SEK 36.1 billion and earnings per share to SEK 4.59. The TeliaSonera share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Read more at www.teliasonera.com.

About SingleHop
SingleHop is a global IT services and cloud hosting company that offers highly scalable, automated, on-demand infrastructure services to both businesses and resellers. With clients in 114 countries, three geographically dispersed U.S.-based data centers and a new facility in Amsterdam; SingleHop provides dedicated, cloud, and managed services to more than 4,000 customers with 10,000+ servers online. SingleHop delivers state-of-the-art resources and services with industry-leading deployment time and custom support. SingleHop was established in 2006 in Chicago and was named #25 on the Inc. 500 list for the fastest growing companies in America in 2011.

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