ATLANTA -- Oct. 13, 2004 -- Internap Network Services Corporation (AMEX: IIP), the leading provider of performance-based routing technology over the Internet, announced today that it would formalize its relationship with T-Systems North America, Inc. to provide a variety of intelligent routing solutions to leading multinational customers.
Under terms of the agreement, T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, will resell Internap high-performance Internet products and services through its U.S. sales channels. The relationship will target major vertical markets and will be based in Internap's Midwest office, located in Chicago.
"Working with T-Systems will allow us both to establish new and stronger relationships with Fortune 500 companies," said Internap's Dave Abrahamson, chief marketing officer and vice president of sales. "With Internap, T-Systems can provide its core managed web hosting services, including managing servers and desktops, as well as providing optimized intelligent routing for our clients' networks."
Abrahamson noted that T-Systems and Internap have worked together for nearly five years. Recently, the two companies teamed to offer optimized intelligent routing and managed web-hosting services to a joint customer in the Chicago area.
"Internap's intelligent routing technologies, combined with T-systems expertise in effectively managing enterprise infrastructures, bring best-of-breed solutions to the Fortune 500 marketplace," said Sean Parkinson, CEO of T-Systems. "This strategy will allow us to expand our capabilities and continue to differentiate our offerings to other leading enterprise clients."
With locations throughout the U.S., as well as in London and Tokyo, Internap offers a variety of high-performance Internet solutions. As the leader in route control, the company combines its intelligent routing technology with built-in reliability, network redundancy and superior client support, which allows companies to increase productivity, generate greater revenue, decrease costs and improve customer relationships.
Internap offers both premise-based route optimization and network-based route optimization, which provide IP connectivity solutions that deliver 100 percent uptime, less than 45 millisecond latency and less than 0.3 percent packet loss. The company's industry-leading Service Level Agreement (SLA) is the only proactive performance guarantee that covers the entire Internet, rather than just one carrier's network.
About T-Systems
T-Systems is one of Europe's leading providers of information and communications technology (ICT). Within the Deutsche Telekom group, T-Systems is responsible for serving major business accounts. The company has some 40,000 staff on its payrolls in more than 20 countries. In 2003, the solutions provider generated EUR 10.6 billion in sales.
T-Systems' solutions improve the business competitiveness of its customers in the industry sectors telecommunications, services and finance, public and healthcare as well as manufacturing. The company optimizes processes and cuts costs for its customers, thus providing them additional flexibility for their core business. T-Systems makes targeted use of industry expertise and cutting-edge technology. Its services range from the integration of new ICT solutions into existing customer systems, through the implementation and operation of desktop systems, data centers and networks, all the way to telecommunications services and solutions for international carriers, as well as broadcast and media solutions.
T-Systems' services encompass all levels of the information and communications technology value chain, spanning from ICT infrastructure and ICT solutions, up to and including business process management. For more information about the company and its services, see www.t-systems.com.
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.
