Jay Smith

VP & General Manager, Data Centers at VPLS

A pioneer in data center infrastructure development, VPLS is proud to have Jay Smith as the company’s Vice President & GM of Data Centers. Jay has over 20 years of experience in telecommunication and data center management including deep knowledge of voice and data communication, fiber optic connectivity, data center design, colocation, managed services, and related technologies.

Prior to joining VPLS, Jay was the co-founder of Cyberverse. Established in 1994, Jay’s leadership over the past 25 years enabled Cyberverse to earn the reputation as one of the most trusted Internet infrastructure services companies in the industry.

Today, Jay is responsible for all VPLS data center operations across the United States and consults with clients on determining the most appropriate combination of physical data center locations and customized infrastructure solutions to meet their specific needs.


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VPLS

VPLS has the expertise and global reach for all your cloud, colocation, hosting, backup and disaster recovery needs. Our carrier-neutral data centers are HIPAA, IDS, ISAE, SSAE, SOC2 and PCI DSS compliant offering full-stack IT expertise including network, hosting, cloud, bare-metal, security and managed services to support mission-criticalapplication infrastructure. VPLS has a global network backbone with over 200 Gbps of transit capacity, making VPLS the ideal on-ramp to the internet and public clouds like Amazon, Azure, Google and Oracle. VPLS’s Network and Security Operations Centers in Orange, CA and Bangkok, Thailand provide 24×7 managed service support offering help desk, managed server, managed security, managed switch, and managed wireless services to over 7,000 customers globally.