iAsiaWorks was an

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and

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(IDC) from 2000–2001 during the final days of the dot-com era, which built state-of-the-art data centers in

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Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

and other cities. Its

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on the

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was IAWK on Aug 19th, 2000.

Officers

* CEO: Jon Beizer * CFO: Jon Engman * CSO:

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Description

iAsiaWorks began as a Taiwan & Korean ISP called AUNet, raised additional capital, and purchased AT&T's Hong Kong ISP business in early 2000. The newly merged company offered leased line and datacenter space to companies across Asia Pacific, but with a particular focus on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. In each of these markets it built datacenter facilities, which remained mostly empty until it closed in mid to late 2001. The facilities were built to the highest specifications available in Asia. In the fall of 2001 iAsiaWork's facility in Seoul was purchased by Dacom where it consolidated its 'KIDC' operations. Its former facility in Hong Kong was occupied by

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. The status of the facility in Taiwan remains unknown.

References

External links

iAsiaWorks Memorial
website created by Tom Cross and

of the Industrial Memetics Institute Internet service providers of the United States {{telecom-company-stub