tw telecom Leads All Competitive Providers in Business Ethernet Services

LITTLETON, Colo., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- tw telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC) a leading global provider of managed services, including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises throughout the U.S. and world-wide, today announced its continued leading market share performance as third largest provider in the United States delivering business Ethernet services. Vertical Systems Group, a leading industry analyst, recognized tw telecom's performance in its year-end 2011 U.S. Business Ethernet Services Leaderboard.

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"Business Ethernet services is the foundation of our network strength, reliability and reach," said Mike Rouleau, Senior Vice President – Strategy and Business Development at tw telecom.  "It continues to play a critical role in our growth and in our ability to help our customers become more efficient and grow their businesses.   Business Ethernet networking truly resonates with our Enterprise customer base and enables us to broadly deploy services from 2 megabits to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, as well as to develop and deliver unique services such as our Fractional 10 Gigabit service."

"Business Ethernet installations grew by 31% in 2011, largely in response to the need for increased application speed, performance and control requirements needed by today's enterprises," said Erin Dunne, director of research services, Vertical Systems Group. "tw telecom continues to be a market leader in deploying Business Ethernet services by serving the demand of enterprises with higher speed applications in their main and remote network locations.''

tw telecom's national resilient fiber network and infrastructure connects about 15,500 commercial buildings across the country – more than any other competitive provider – to enable a secure, scalable and predictable networking experience for a large and growing number of enterprises worldwide.

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About tw telecom

tw telecom holdings inc., a unit of tw telecom inc., (Nasdaq: TWTC) headquartered in Littleton, Colo., provides managed network services, specializing in Business Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, voice, VoIP, VPN and security, to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughout the U.S., and globally. 

tw telecom connects more commercial buildings to its resilient, fiber network than any other competitive communications provider.  It has the third highest market share of retail Ethernet ports in service, its own metro fiber networks and one of the ten most interconnected IP backbones in the world.  tw telecom has the national capability, robust product portfolio and national/local customer care teams to support mission critical applications and to deliver the most sought after customer experience in the industry. Please visit www.twtelecom.com for more information.

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