Internap Corporation is an Internet infrastructure provider that offers cloud hosting, colocation, Internet Protocol services, data center and Content Delivery Network services. Internap has approximately 13,000 customers ranging from startup to enterprise in the U.S. and abroad and approximately 700 employees. Its customers are companies that require high-performance Internet services for business-critical applications, such as advertising technology, online analytics, big data and ecommerce. Internap has a foundation in the online retail, online gaming, SaaS, financial and business services industries.
CenturyLink, Inc., is an American multinational communications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. It provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers in 36 states. It also provides long distance service. The earliest predecessor of CenturyLink was the Oak Ridge Telephone Company in Oak Ridge, Louisiana, which was owned by F. E. Hogan, Sr. In 1930, Hogan sold the company, with 75 paid subscribers, to William Clarke and Marie Williams, for $500. They moved the switchboard to the Williams family front parlor. In 1946, the Williams' son, Clarke McRae Williams, received ownership of the family's telephone company as a wedding gift.