SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – June 22, 2005 – Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc. (www.yipes.com), the pioneer in managed, end-to-end Ethernet solutions, today announced it has established an international point-of-presence (POP) in London. With Yipes, enterprises are migrating to a global Ethernet services platform that supports critical voice, data and video applications.  

Yipes said that this POP represents an important expansion of its Global Area Network (GAN) infrastructure, and reflects the Company’s accelerating efforts to meet the expanding connectivity needs of the global marketplace. Worldwide revenue from Ethernet services was $2.5 billion last year. Michael Howard, principal analyst for Infonetics Research Inc., stated, “ The market will grow 276 percent between 2005 and 2009 to $22.2 billion.”

 

Yipes GAN currently serves a wide range of key global markets, delivering simple, secure, scalable Ethernet connectivity that's as easy to manage as a local office LAN. Yipes GAN is a complete end-to-end solution, including an Ethernet hand-off at the business location, local connectivity in both international and domestic metro areas, wide area service with international partners and 24x7 management of all equipment and networks. Network performance is backed by a global Service Level Agreement including guaranteed latency and availability.

 

“We are very pleased to announce our new London POP. It is an important step forward in Yipes’ expansion -- delivering critical benefits of a standardized global Ethernet service interface to more international customers than ever before,” said John Scanlon, chief executive officer for Yipes. “International growth is vital to our business strategy, and we are continuing to expand both our technical resources and our global carrier relationships to meet customer demand for fully-managed global Ethernet solutions.”

 

With a network reach to key most major cities in Europe, Yipes currently serves customers in London, Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt. Yipes’ global expansion plans include Asia and Latin America.

 

“The new Yipes connections have provided a number of our European offices with real-time access to the applications that are centralized in our New York office,” stated Martin Welling, Worldwide Director of Information Technology for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. “Due to the low latency of the Yipes connections, users in our London, Brussels and Paris offices now have much faster access to mission-critical applications, such as billing and remote document management. We are looking forward to implementing similar connections in our Milan, Rome and Hong Kong offices in the near future.”

 

The new POP is located within the world-class TeleCity Data Center at Harbour Exchange in London. TeleCity is Europe’s leading independent data center provider and their facility in London is one of the region’s most important Internet exchange points.

 

“Yipes is a recognized industry leader and a true pioneer in Ethernet services, and we enjoy working with them as they expand their presence across Europe and into additional global markets,” said Rick Hudson, TeleCity chief executive officer. “Our London data center at Harbour Exchange provides Yipes GAN customers with the highest levels of security, speed and access, and our facilities across Europe are capable of scaling with Yipes as their international presence continues to grow.”

 

About Yipes:
Winner of the Metro Ethernet Forum 2005 Service Provider of the Year Award for Outstanding Innovation, Yipes Enterprise Services, Inc. is the leading global provider of managed, end-to-end Ethernet solutions for enterprise customers. Yipes offers a uniquely scalable suite of networking services that combine the speed, simplicity and cost effectiveness of native Ethernet with Yipes proprietary bandwidth-on-demand functionality. Yipes provides services in and between major metropolitan markets throughout the United States and the UK including: New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco, San Jose, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, Denver, San Diego, Miami and London. For more information, visit www.yipes.com.

 

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