ISWEST EXPANDS BACKBONE CAPACITY

Westlake Village, Calif., May 9, 1997: Internet Specialties West or I.S. West, has doubled its outgoing capacity to the rest of the global Internet. Now maintaining fiber links with UUnet Technologies and InternetMCI, IS West can offer customers even more reliable service. "The single link was fast and wasn’t near full capacity, but in order to provide faster access for our customers and more redundancy we opted to add another link. After months of planning for a seamless integration, we finally turned the circuit up and within minutes customers were being routed dynamically. For example, a customer trying to visit Microsoft’s web site (http://www.microsoft.com) would go out the UUnet Technologies backbone link, while a customer trying to visit Netscape’s web site (http://www.netscape.com) would be going out the InternetMCI link," says Keith McCallion, Senior Network Operations Engineer for IS West.

I.S. West has recently undergone many changes within the organization in order to provide the best service possible. With the introduction of Drew Kaplan as Chief Operating Officer, the focus of the company has dramatically changed. As Mr. Kaplan put it, "Change is constant, rapid and often revolutionary. Our ability to adapt is the difference between leaping ahead and being left behind."

I.S. West is located in the North Ranch business center off of La Baya drive. We are a full-service Internet Service Provider offering local Internet dial-up, as well as dedicated ISDN, T-1 access for Businesses. We feature the finest quality equipment from Cisco Systems, Livingston Technologies, and Sun for our award-winning Internet Architecture. I.S. West maintains two SONET fiber optic connections to Pacific Bell and Metropolitan Fiber, and utilizes the industries best upstream providers, UUnet Technologies and InternetMCI.

For more information, visit IS Wests web site at: http://www.iswest.net/.