IRVINE, Calif., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Lightwave Inc.
(Nasdaq: ELIX), a progressive integrated communications provider, today
announced the addition of a new Orange County office in Irvine, giving local
businesses a better alternative for data transmission and Internet access
services.
"Many online businesses based in this community need a fast, reliable,
high-capacity, data backbone provider to host their data, voice and video
traffic," said Valarie Kimble, general manager for Electric Lightwave. "By
entering Orange County with our nationally acclaimed premier Internet
backbone, these businesses will get that type of service from us."
In addition to routing traffic through the five major U.S. network access
points (MAE-West, MAE-East, Ameritech, PAIX and PacBell), the company uses
more than 125 private peering exchanges in response to possible congestion at
these points. The peering exchanges enable content delivery between networks
with less gridlock.
A team of engineers proactively keeps Electric Lightwave's backbone
running smoothly. These network technicians monitor the company's IP network
24 hours a day, seven days a week. Electric Lightwave also has the largest
Cisco-powered network in the nation to mesh both dial access and dedicated
access channels, creating 100 percent network interoperability.
Services now available to Irvine area businesses include dedicated
Internet access, point-to-point private lines, ATM (asynchronous transfer
mode), transparent LAN, a managed ATM network product; frame relay, Remote
Systems Virtual Portal (RSVP), a remote, Internet dial-up service; and RSVP+,
which takes RSVP one step further by allowing businesses to outsource any
internal IT resources.
Electric Lightwave's California offices include Los Angeles, Sacramento,
San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose.
Electric Lightwave offers data and Internet access services to Orange
County businesses from its office at 7545 Irvine Center Drive, Suite 200. For
more information, please contact Suzanne Ellis at 949-623-8344.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave Inc. is a broadband integrated communications provider
of Internet, data, voice and dedicated access services to
communications-intensive businesses and the growing online business community.
The company owns and operates high-speed fiber optic networks that
interconnect major markets in the West and operates a nationally acclaimed
Internet and data network. Headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., the company
employs 1,167 and generated revenues of $187 million in 1999, up 85 percent
from 1998. Additional information about Electric Lightwave is located on the
Web at http://www.eli.net. The company is 82 percent owned by Citizens Utilities
(NYSE: CZN, CZNPr).
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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