EXHIBIT 10.17


                            PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT
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                       (Savvis Communications Corporation)

         THIS PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is between Savvis
Communications Corporation, a Delaware corporation ("Debtor"), and General
Electric Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as Agent for itself and
other Lessors from time to time party to the Restated Lease Agreement as defined
below (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns in such
capacity, "Secured Party"), and as Lessor pursuant to that certain Amended and
Restated Lease Agreement dated as of March 8, 2002 (as the same may be amended,
modified, supplemented, renewed, extended or restated from time to time, the
"Restated Lease Agreement") among Savvis Communications Corporation, a Delaware
corporation and Secured Party.

                                R E C I T A L S:
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         A. Debtor and Secured Party have entered into that certain Security
Agreement dated as of March 18, 2002 (as the same may be amended, modified,
supplemented, renewed, extended or restated from time to time, the "Security
Agreement"; all terms defined in the Security Agreement, wherever used herein,
shall have the same meanings herein as are prescribed by the Security
Agreement).

         B. Pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreement, Debtor has granted
to Secured Party a lien and security interest in all General Intangibles of
Debtor including, without limitation, all of Debtor's right, title, and interest
in, to and under all now owned and hereafter acquired Patents and Patent
Licenses, and all products and Proceeds thereof, to secure the payment of the
Obligations (as defined in the Restated Lease Agreement).

         NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Debtor hereby grants to Secured
Party a lien and continuing security interest in all of Debtor's right, title,
and interest in, to, and under the following (all of the following items or
types of Property being herein collectively referred to as the "Patent
Collateral"), whether presently existing or hereafter created or acquired, and
such grant insofar as it applies to Collateral covered by the Master Lease
Agreement (as defined in the Restated Lease Agreement), is in confirmation of
the existing and continuing Lien and security interest granted under the Master
Lease Agreement:

                  (1) each Patent and each application for a Patent ("Patent
         Application"), including, without limitation, each Patent and Patent
         Application referred to in Schedule 1 annexed hereto, together with any
         reissues, continuations, divisions, modifications, substitutions or
         extensions thereof;

                  (2) each Patent License, including, without limitation, each
         Patent License referred to in Schedule 1 annexed hereto; and

                  (3) all products and Proceeds of the foregoing, including,
         without limitation, any claim by Debtor against third parties for past,
         present, or future infringement or breach of any Patent or Patent
         License, including, without limitation, any Patent or Patent License
         referred to in Schedule 1 annexed hereto, and any Patent issued
         pursuant to a Patent Application referred to in Schedule 1 annexed
         hereto.

The lien and security interest contained in this Agreement is granted in
conjunction with the liens and security interests granted to Secured Party
pursuant to the Security Agreement.


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         Debtor hereby acknowledges and affirms that the rights and remedies of
Secured Party with respect to the liens and security interests in the Patent
Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Security
Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by reference
herein as if fully set forth herein.


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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Debtor has caused this Agreement to be duly
executed by its duly authorized officer as of the date written above.


                                           DEBTOR:
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                                           SAVVIS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
                                           a Delaware corporation


                                           By: /s/ Nancy Bridgman Lysinger
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                                           Name: Nancy Bridgman Lysinger
                                           Title: Vice President and Treasurer


                                           SECURED PARTY:
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                                           GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION,
                                           a Delaware corporation, as Agent


                                           By: /s/ Robert Wotten
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                                               Name:  Robert Wotten
                                               Title: Vice President
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                                 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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STATE OF New York          )

                           )

COUNTY OF New York         )

         This instrument was acknowledged before me this 18th day of
March, 2002, by Nancy Bridgman Lysinger, as Vice President and Treasurer
of Savvis Communications Corporation, a Delaware corporation, on behalf of
such corporation.

                                          /s/ Robert Braumuller
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        {Seal}                            Notary Public in and for the State of
                                              New York

My commission expires: 8/2/05




STATE OF Connecticut       )

                           )

COUNTY OF Fairfield        )

         This instrument was acknowledged before me this 15th day of
March, 2002, by Robert Wotten, as Vice President of General Electric
Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as Agent, on behalf of such
corporation.

                                          /s/ Delythe Eugenie Lowry
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        {Seal}                            Notary Public in and for the State of
                                              Connecticut

My commission expires: 8/31/05
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                                   Schedule 1
                                       to
                            Patent Security Agreement
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                                     PATENTS
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None.

                                 PATENT LICENSES
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None.