ATLANTA, Mar 1, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In BW5455 issued March 1, 2004: First graph, first sentence of release, exchange and ticker symbol should read: (AMEX: IIP) (sted (NASDAQ: INAP)).
The corrected release reads:
NUVIO CHOOSES INTERNAP TO POWER VOICE OVER IP SERVICE OFFERINGS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE IP SERVICES CHALLENGE MORE COSTLY, TRADITIONAL VOICE SERVICE
Internap(R) Network Services Corporation (AMEX: IIP), the leading provider of performance-based routing technology over the Internet, announced today that Kansas City, MO-based Nuvio Corporation has become the latest provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) services to select Internap's multi-carrier network service to power its VoIP service offerings.
"Voice over IP is rapidly gaining widespread acceptance among business customers and carriers as an acceptable alternative to traditional circuit-switched voice service," said Dave Abrahamson, vice president of sales and chief marketing officer at Internap. "We're excited that Nuvio and other VoIP providers recognize the unique benefits of Internap's multi-homed, managed network service and have chosen our technology for their service."
"As a leading VoIP provider, we needed to partner with a company that was able to support our datacenters," said Jason Talley, chief executive officer of Nuvio. "Network latency and quality are critical to success for our service. Internap was able to address all of these issues and more, and we are very excited about our relationship with them."
In tests conducted by NEC Business Solutions, Inc. of Internap's performance for voice and video applications over the public Internet, Internap far exceeded the performance levels of delay, packet loss and jitter recommended by the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector. For overall call quality, Internap registered a 4.10 mean opinion score (MOS), placing it significantly above the acceptable MOS score range of 3.60 or higher. By comparison, a 3.60 MOS score is the quality associated with cellular phone calls.
Gartner, Inc. predicts that at least 80 percent of enterprises worldwide will install VoIP over the next five years. However, the use of a private network approach to VoIP can suffer from both poor performance and cost effectiveness, compared to the public Internet. Internap's managed IP network services provide an end-to-end service level agreement that covers the entire Internet, enabling voice performance at significant costs savings.
Nuvio is currently offering residential and business VoIP service in Kansas City, Springfield, and Joplin, MO, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Colorado Springs. Nuvio is bringing new cities online every day. "Our partnership with Internap allows us to bring the highest quality VoIP service available to our customers in these cities," added Talley.
About Nuvio
Nuvio Corporation has fast become one of the leading providers of telephone service via Voice over IP. Nuvio is allowing customers for the first time to truly have a choice in their phone service apart from traditional phone companies.
Headquartered in Kansas City, MO, Nuvio develops, licenses, and markets VoIP services to businesses, education, consumer and government customers. In addition to residential and small business NuvioVoice product, Nuvio also has NuvioCentrex, a complete IP based Centrex application that will replace existing telephony infrastructure for a business. For additional information about Nuvio Corporation, see Nuvio on the web at
www.nuvio.com or call Toll Free (866) 887-3479.
About Internap
Internap is the market leader of intelligent route-control solutions that bring reliability, performance and security to the Internet. The company's patented and patent-pending technology address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of the benefits of deploying business-critical applications such as e-commerce, Voice over IP (VoIP), video-conferencing, and streaming audio/video across the Internet. Through a portfolio of high-performance IP solutions, customers can bypass congestion points, overcome routing inefficiencies and optimize performance of their applications. Internap solutions are backed by an industry-leading performance guarantee that covers the entire Internet as opposed to just one network. These offerings include: network- and premise-based route optimization solutions, colocation, VPN, content distribution, managed security and managed storage services.
Internap currently serves more than 1,600 customers including the Fortune 1000 and mid-tier enterprises in the financial services, government; travel/hospitality, manufacturing, media/entertainment, technology and retail industries. The company provides services throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. For more information, please visit the company website at
www.internap.com.
