The new location will support a UK centre that can provide broadband networking from a single location for public sector businesses throughout Wales, as well as the company’s own commercial pursuits.

The new £74 million project will also be aimed at providing a broadband network to be utilized by authorities and emergency and health related services, so that public organizations will no longer have to worry about budgeting for broadband network services.

Deputy First Minister and Minister for the Economy and Transport in Wales, Ieuan Wyn Jones, comments that the new headquarters will be integral in providing the public sector with broadband support from a single network and in creating new jobs for the local economy.

A new headquarters is not the only advancement that the growing Logicalis company is making, as it also recently announced that it has received the title of an Authorized Technology Provider from Cisco.

The advancement allows the company to utilize the Cisco computing model and reduce cost while providing new solutions to businesses they support.

Managing director Tom Kelly of Logicalis in the UK commented that the company is pleased to join Cisco as a provider, as the solutions they can now offer will help them broaden their customer base and support current customers in a much more effective manner.

Jayshree Ullal, who initially joined the company with its purchase of Crescendo Communications in 1993, said in a posting to the company’s blog that she would be leaving.

Ullal is the third key executive to depart the company in just over 12 months.

In December, chief development officer Charles Giancarlo left the company to join private equity firm Silver Lake.

Additionally senior vice president Mike Volpi left to become CEO of Internet television company Joost in February 2007.

Ullal’s post didn’t state what she aims to do after leaving Cisco.

The blog post stated that it was with mixed feelings and much introspection that she had come to a decision to leave Cisco after 15 great and memorable years.

Her loyalty and affection to Cisco, CEO John Chambers, and her teams made this a very difficult and lengthy decision process.

However, she is confident that she is passing the baton to some of the best engineering talent and general managers in the industry.

John McCool, senior vice president of the Internet systems business unit, and one of Ullal’s deputies, will reportedly take over her position.

The company says the two Cisco CRS-1s will make the network infrastructure more hierarchical and scalable and allow LeaseWeb to enlarge its hosting network to a capability of 1900 gigabits per second.

The Cisco CRS-1 is a carrier routing system that offers unremitting system operation, service flexibility and system endurance and is powered by Cisco IOS XR software for an always-on operation while scaling system capacity up to 92 Tbps.

“To date the volume of our data traffic has doubled or done better than that every year,” says Con Zwinkels, managing director of LeaseWeb. “If you calculate what this means for the future, right now we have 80 Gbps. It will be 160 a year from now. The required capacity will be 320 Gbps the year after that, and we will be close to 1.3 Terabits in a couple of years. We were unable to guarantee the growth potential with the current network structure but with the acquisition of the new Cisco CRS-1 platform, we can now realize that growth capacity.”

LeaseWeb says it decided to acquire two CRS-1s since this will permit it to offer a more dependable uptime guarantee as well as preserve its service level agreements with customers to an even greater degree.