Internap Extends Ability to Deliver Predictable Network Performance Through Interconnection Agreement with Lightower Fiber Networks

ATLANTA and BOXBOROUGH, Mass., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a leading provider of end-to-end Internet business products and services, today announced its alliance with Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading metro fiber network and bandwidth service provider in the Northeast. Through the relationship, enterprises in buildings and data centers connected to Lightower's all-fiber network can now optimize network performance and availability through the use of Internap's Performance IP™. Businesses can also benefit from Internap's Managed Hosting, CDN and Colocation services.  

As a result of the agreement, Lightower has installed a point of presence in Internap's Manhattan data center facility located at 111 8th Avenue. Lightower's all-fiber network is strategically and diversely connected to financial exchanges, carrier hotels, data centers, commercial buildings, and other critical interconnection facilities throughout the Northeast – offering customers the best solutions at the best locations.   

"Internap is now able to extend the reach of our 111 8th Avenue data center and all the solutions in that location well beyond metropolitan New York to serve additional markets and clients across Lightower's impressive 1,750 lit building network. This will allow businesses to take advantage of Internap's Performance IP routing technology to deliver optimized, reliable and predictable performance across their networks at competitive price levels," said Scott Hrastar, Internap's SVP of IP Services.

Performance IP, based on Internap's Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO) technology, routes information traffic over redundant, high-speed connections to all of the major Internet backbones in each market. As a result, MIRO provides intelligent, optimized and highly-reliable delivery of customer content, applications and communications throughout the world.

Performance IP and Internap's suite of data center offerings are ideally suited for online financial firms, rich media companies, e-commerce and Internet-centric companies. These businesses and similar organizations are sensitive to the performance, availability and latency issues that hamper Internet performance and adversely impact financial results.  

Lightower offers Internap customers a complete suite of low latency connectivity solutions up to 40G, including wavelengths and Ethernet. Lightower's all-fiber network connects Internap customers at 111 8th Avenue to all of the major regional interconnection facilities in the New York metro area.  

"Lightower's relationship with Internap creates a very powerful combination of intelligent routing technology with the proven dependability and performance of the Lightower all-fiber network, which is especially valuable to those companies who depend on high-performance Internet service," explained Doug Dalissandro, Lightower's EVP of Sales.

About Lightower Fiber Networks

Lightower Fiber Networks is a leading fiber network and broadband service provider in the Northeast. Lightower offers over 4,500 fiber route miles with over 1,750 on-net buildings coupled with comprehensive transport and alternative access solutions. Lightower's geographic footprint extends from Boston and southern New Hampshire, to eastern New York State, northern New Jersey, Long Island, and New York City. Lightower uniquely offers customers geographically diverse routing and low latency network solutions on an all-fiber optic network. Lightower Fiber is headquartered in Boxborough, MA. For more information, visit www.lightower.com or call 888-LT-FIBER.

About Internap

Internap is a leading Internet products and services company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience® by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with a 100% uptime reliability service level agreement. With a worldwide platform of data centers, managed Internet services and CDN, Internap frees its customers to innovate, improve service levels and lower the cost of IT operations. Thousands of companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals. For more information, visit http://www.internap.com/. 

About Internap's 111 8th Avenue Data Center Facility

Internap's Manhattan data center is located at 111 8th Avenue, just 15 miles from Newark International Airport, 10 miles from La Guardia Airport and 19 miles from JFK International Airport. The SAS70 Type II compliant facility boasts 76,000 square feet.  The site offers Colocation, Managed Hosting, CDN and Performance IP route optimization services. The site's strategic location, in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, allows Internap to serve some of the areas largest financial, e-commerce and rich media companies. Internap also boasts a sister downtown New York City data center located at 75 Broad Street. 

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements related to the features, functionality and performance of our products and services and the benefits our customers are expected to receive from them, as well as the expected benefits of our third party alliances. Because such statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include the actual performance of our services and products as well as those of third parties with which we have alliances; our ability to respond successfully to technological change; the availability of services from Internet network service providers or network service providers providing network access loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all; failure of third party suppliers to deliver their products and services on favorable terms, or at all; failures in our network operations centers, data centers, network access points or computer systems; our ability to provide or improve Internet infrastructure services to our customers; and our ability to protect our intellectual property, as well as other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify any forward-looking statement for any reason.

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