Released on: February 20, 2008, 2:38 am

Press Release Author: Isaac Helgens

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: USSHC has formally announced its provision of co-location
services to the XMPP Standards Foundation

Press Release Body:
Monticello,Iowa,February,19,2008 -- United States Secure Hosting Center (USSHC), has
formally announced its provision of co-location services to the XMPP Standards
Foundation (XSF). The agreement supports the core web, mail, and source control
services maintained by the XSF for use by the Jabber/XMPP developer and user
communities, as well as the flagship jabber.org IM service.

The XMPP Standards Foundation (formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is the
central hub for development of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP), a real-time communication technology based on the open-source Jabber code
first released in 1999. XMPP is increasingly seen as a core aspect of the Internet
infrastructure, as witness its deployment by the likes of Google, Apple, Sun, NTT,
Portugal Telecom, Twitter, the U.S. Marine Corps, and major Wall Street investment
banks.

\"Given the secure, always-on nature of Jabber/XMPP technologies, the choice of USSHC
is only natural,\" said Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the XSF. \"USSHC\'s
commitment to secure hosting, highly reliable systems, and fast, friendly service is
unsurpassed in the industry.\"

\"We\'re happy to support the continued expansion of the Jabber project and the XMPP
Standards Foundation,\" said Jerry Pasker, CEO and founder of USSHC. \"We have
provided hosting and services for the foundation informally for almost 10 years and
are happy to continue that support as the XMPP Standards Foundation continues to
create,develop, and maintain innovative software.\"

Offering truly redundant fiber connections with zero common points of failure, dual
data and UPS drops to customer racks, and multiple onsite generators with secure
fuel storage, USSHC can meet the expanding needs of groups like the XSF today and in
the future.

About USSHC
Established in 2003 to provide total redundancy for a local ISP, USSHC has expanded
to offer full disaster recovery and collocation services to a wide variety of
consumers. USSHC provides a full range of services from its secure data center in
their military-built, hardened, underground facility. Designed to survive and
operate normally during a major disaster, the facility has been a premier choice for
leaders in internet services, technology startups, and Fortune 500 companies. USSHC
is a privately held company based in Eastern Iowa.

About the XMPP Standards Foundation

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) builds open protocols for presence, instant
messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF\'s
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), and also provides information and
infrastructure to the worldwide community of Jabber/XMPP developers, service
providers, and end users. Widely considered the lingua franca of instant messaging,
XMPP is an Internet standard for presence, real-time messaging, and streaming
Extensible Markup Language (XML) data that grew out of the popular Jabber
open-source technologies first released in 1999. With approval of XMPP by the IETF
in 2004, the XSF continues to develop XMPP extensions that meet the needs of its
many stakeholders: open-source and commercial developers (including Apple, HP,
Nokia, and Sun), organizations large and small (including the U.S. defense
establishment and most Wall Street investment banks), Internet and mobile service
providers (including Google, NTT, and Portugal Telecom), and more than 50 million
end users worldwide.
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Web Site: http://www.usshc.com

Contact Details: For more information contact:

Isaac Helgens
USSHC
monticello, iowa
888-348-7742
isaac_helgens@usshc.com
http://www.usshc.com