AUSTIN, Texas, ASP2000 Conference, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ --
Electric Lightwave Inc. (Nasdaq: ELIX), a top integrated communications
provider, today announced the completion of its Texas tri-city broadband
network, linking Dallas, Houston and now, Austin businesses. With the
installation of Electric Lightwave's data point of presence (POP) in Austin,
area businesses can opt for high-speed data transmission and Internet access
services from the nation's most reliable and robust data network and premier
Internet backbone provider.
"Now that our Austin POP is up and running, Texas businesses can take
advantage of our unique tri-city broadband ring," said John Abraham, regional
general manager for Electric Lightwave's Texas and Southwest operations. "We
can also offer better telecommunications solutions to businesses in Austin,
giving customers the ability to have their traffic routed through our
Cisco-powered network, which boasts with more than 120 private peering
arrangements, and our nationally recognized premier Internet backbone. This is
especially important as Austin is a hub for explosive high tech and e-commerce
growth."
Electric Lightwave offers dedicated Internet access, point-to-point
private lines, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), frame relay, TLS (Transparent
LAN Service), RSVP (Remote Systems Virtual Portal), an Internet dial-up
service; RSVP+, an ISP development product; and collocation. Electric
Lightwave also offers some of the most rigorous Service Level Agreements in
the industry.
The company began offering data transmission and Internet access services
to Dallas businesses in February 1999 and to Houston in August 1999. Electric
Lightwave's current offices that provide data and Internet access services
include Austin, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego,
San Francisco and San Jose. The company also owns and operates Metro-Area
Networks (MANs) in Seattle, Spokane, Wash., Portland, Ore., Sacramento,
Calif., Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho.
Electric Lightwave offers data transmission and Internet access services
to Austin area businesses from its office at 100 Congress, Suite 1800. For
more information, please contact Austin Sales Manager Doug Forte at
512-370-5225.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave Inc. is a leading integrated communications provider of
enhanced data services, frame relay, ATM and Internet access solutions to
bandwidth intensive businesses and the growing e-commerce market. The company
provides long distance, Internet and data services nationwide, with data
points-of-presence in Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver,
Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, Calif.; Philadelphia,
San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Calif.; and Washington, D.C.
As a full-service provider, the company offers businesses local and long
distance telephone service and high-speed broadband transport that
interconnects major markets in the West, including Seattle, Sacramento,
Calif.; Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Boise, Idaho; Spokane, Wash.; and Portland,
Ore.
Headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., the company employs 1,172 and generated
revenues of $101 million in 1998, up 65 percent from 1997. Additional
information about Electric Lightwave Inc. is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www.eli.net.
SOURCE Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Enid Lamey, 360-816-4682, or pager,
800-368-9102, or enid_lamey@eli.net, or Jack Hardy, 360-816-3602,
or pager, 800-391-3267, or jack_hardy@eli.net, both of Electric
Lightwave, Inc.
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