Acquired By Cable and Wireless
November 2001 — Cable and Wireless (USA)- division purchased the bankrupt web hosting/co-location provider Exodus Communications for $800 million dollars. C&W merged its smaller US operation, the previously acquired Digital Island, with the larger Exodus operation and renamed it Cable and Wireless America.
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