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AppliedTheory Offers High Volume Sites a Shortcut Through the Congested Super Highway Unique Reciprocal Agreement With NorthWestNet Expands ISP's Scope of Services New York, N.Y. --May 6, 1997-- To provide the shortest-and thus fastest-path possible to high-volume Web sites, AppliedTheory Communications, Inc., a New York-based Internet Service Provider (ISP), is offering customers the added benefit of operating a server on the West Coast via a unique arrangement with NorthWestNet, a member of the Verio group of ISPs, based in Seattle,Washington. "Because AppliedTheory is fully integrated with SprintLink and NorthWestNet is connected to Verio, MCI, UUNET and Sprint, Web users connected to the Internet by those companies can visit sites hosted by AppliedTheory and NorthWestNet without being routed through NAPs," said Dr. Richard Mandelbaum, AppliedTheory's founder, CEO and president. "NAPs, or Network Access Points, are the Internet's single greatest source of slowups and congestion. Users will always get better performance when routed internally on a single network, such as the one we've created with NorthWestNet." AppliedTheory's bi-coastal service should appeal to disaster planners, said Mandelbaum, because two separate networks are providing connectivity. "When hosting facilities are not dependent on a common infrastructure," he said, "the chances of failure are remote. Two networks will not go down simultaneously." "Recent press reports have focused on degraded Internet performance and national congestion points, but with expert engineering and design, the Internet can be tuned for high performance," said Eric Hood, CEO and president of NorthWestNet, Inc. "NorthWestNet's arrangement with AppliedTheory optimizes Internet performance so that businesses buying our bi-coastal Internet services will have a significant advantage over their competitors. With our service, businesses can now communicate faster and more effectively with their target audience." AppliedTheory and NorthWestNet share a history as Internet pioneers. AppliedTheory is the for-profit affiliate of NYSERNet, which as the nation's first regional ISP broke new ground in implementing TCP/IP and SNMP technology. NorthWestNet played a similar early role on the West Coast. "There aren't many companies that are positioned to form this kind of alliance," said Mandelbaum. "For customers that need high-volume, geographically dispersed, balanced servers for optimal end-use performance, we can now provide a solution." In addition to connectivity, AppliedTheory offers corporate customers a full-line of Internet services, including Web site design and hosting, on-site training, firewall security and intranetingSM, the integration of legacy databases with the Internet. For additional information contact: AppliedTheory Communications, Inc. 40 Cutter Mill Road, Suite 405 Great Neck, NY 11021 516-466-8422 Web Site: www.appliedtheory.com E-mail: sales@appliedtheory.com or NorthWestNet, Inc. 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Bellevue, WA 9800 206-649-7400 Web Site: www.nwnet.net E-mail: info@nwnet.net |