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KVH Co. Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, was founded by Fidelity Investments in 1999 as an Asia-Pacific IT/communications service provider. Through its facility-based optical fiber networks, data centers, and cloud services platform, KVH is an information delivery platform providing integrated IT and communication solutions to enterprise businesses. KVH serves Media, Manufacturing, Carrier, and Financial Services as its key customer segments, and offers all customers bilingual support in Japanese and English.

KVH specializes in operating and developing low latency networks for the financial services industry, and provides low latency connectivity to all major Japanese exchanges. KVH’s fiber backbone features a flat network hierarchy with few media converters and network devices making it the lowest latency network in metropolitan Japan.

KVH has Points of Presence (PoPs) in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chicago, and partner networks in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Richard Warley was appointed Chief Executive Office of KVH in September, 2010.

History
After being established by Fidelity Investments in April, 1999, KVH began constructing its own low latency, fiber optic networks in Tokyo and Osaka. Following the dot-com crisis of 2000, KVH was one of the few foreign-owned carriers that continued to invest and do business in Japan.

In 2001, KVH introduced the first 2.4 Gbps Leased Line Services to Japan and opened its first data center in Osaka. The following year, KVH opened its second data center in Japan and first in Tokyo, KVH Tokyo Data Center 1 (TDC1). TDC1 was the second largest data center in Tokyo and was accompanied by the launch of KVH’s Ethernet Services, Voice TDM Services, and co-location and data center operational services within the same year.

Since then, KVH has been expanding its portfolio of services as well as its presence across the Asia-Pacific region. Today, KVH’s network extends beyond Japan and connects to Chicago, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In February 2011, KVH opened Tokyo Data Center 2 (TDC2), which is located in Inzai City, Chiba.

Products and Services

 * Cloud-based IaaS services
 * Managed and co-location services
 * Data center real estate services
 * Ethernet and IP network services
 * Low latency connectivity
 * Professional services
 * Integrated IT managed services, networking and communication solutions
 * Multilingual capabilities