High Speed Data and Internet Access Services Now Available in San Jose Through
Interconnection With the Palo Alto Internet Exchange
VANCOUVER, Wash., April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Lightwave Inc.
(Nasdaq: ELIX), one of the nation's leading integrated communications
providers, today announced the addition of a new San Jose office in the heart
of Silicon Valley. The company provides data and Internet access services to
area businesses through the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), a national
Network Access Point (NAP).
"The Palo Alto interconnection enables us to provide fast and reliable
data and Internet access services on our own broadband network to Silicon
Valley businesses," said Jim Sturtevant, general manager for Electric
Lightwave. The new Silicon Valley office is the second in the Bay Area for
Electric Lightwave. The first office opened in San Francisco last year.
The company's data point-of-presence (POP) located at the PAIX, provides
access to Electric Lightwave's high speed OC-12 asynchronous transfer mode
(ATM) nationwide data network for Internet privately peered backbone, ATM and
frame relay data services.
In addition, a separate Electric Lightwave network facility located in
Santa Clara will be a termination/connection point for the company's long haul
network, currently under construction, which routes through the Bay Area.
Data services now available through the company's Silicon Valley office
include point-to-point private lines, dedicated Internet access, TLS
(Transparent LAN Services), frame relay, ATM and RSVP (Remote Systems Virtual
Portal), a remote Internet access dialup service.
"Adding a Silicon Valley office is vital to our commitment to provide
Internet services for the Bay Area's burgeoning business market," said
Mike Morey, regional vice president for Electric Lightwave. "As we continue to
strengthen our position as a national Tier One Internet provider, these
businesses will benefit from the use of our broadband network. Many businesses
now focusing on e-commerce opportunities in particular, can also take
advantage of our robust and reliable infrastructure."
Current offices include San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas,
Dallas, Denver, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland and
Philadelphia. The company also owns and operates several MANs (Metropolitan
Area Networks) in Seattle, Spokane, Wash., Portland, Ore., Sacramento, Calif.,
Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho.
For more information about Internet and data services in the Silicon
Valley, please call Jim Sturtevant at 408-519-3010 or go to
http://data.eli.net.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave, Inc. is the 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
offers long distance, data and prepaid services nationwide. As a full-service
provider, the company offers local, long distance, videoconferencing and
high-speed broadband transport via an expanding fiber optic network that
interconnects major markets in the West. Headquartered in Vancouver,
Washington, Electric Lightwave employs 1,200. Revenues in 1998 were
$101 million, up 65 percent from 1997's $61 million. Electric Lightwave is on
the World Wide Web at http://www.eli.net.
SOURCE Electric Lightware Inc.
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CONTACT:
Enid Lamey, 360-816-4682, or
enid_lamey@eli.net; or Jack Hardy, 360-816-3602, or
jack_hardy@eli.net, both of Electric Lightwave Inc.
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