50 Top Corporations Certified as STSN VPN Business Partners; Certification Represents Millions of Room Nights for Hoteliers.

Business Editors & High-Tech/Travel Writers

Americas Lodging Investment Summit

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2003

STSN, the leading provider of wired and wireless high-speed data communications to hotels and conference centers worldwide, today announced at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) that it has tested and verified the Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) of over 50 major corporations, assuring enterprise-level security for over 280,000 business travelers at more than 400 STSN-installed hotel properties world-wide.

Demand for VPN products and services continues to rise sharply according to Infonetics Research, with global VPN expenditures expected to increase 528 percent by 2004.

John Bray, vice president of Travel and Hospitality at Sapient (Nasdaq:SAPE), reiterated the value of STSN's VPN capability. "Sapient's ClearTravel(SM) corporate travel service helps companies achieve the highest level of productivity from their employee self-service initiatives, such as streamlining corporate travel procurement and improving expense management. Because so many of our clients are frequent travelers -- who still require trouble-free access to enterprise applications and information -- we often recommend STSN's VPN tunneling to ensure they have secure, high-speed Internet access from a hotel room or conference center."

Unlike most competitors, STSN owns its network, allowing it to provide a nearly unlimited number of IP addresses to individual on-net hotel properties. The ability to provide each user with a unique static IP address enables a secure "private tunnel" within the public gateway to corporate VPNs via the STSN network. This one-to-one (remote user to corporate VPN) IP mapping secures the transmission of mission-critical information, a necessity for corporate travelers and corporate meeting planners using high-speed Internet access.

"VPN support over a secure high-speed network is a huge step forward in making the business traveler more productive," said Brett Molen, CTO of STSN. "By enabling secure access to corporate VPNs, STSN makes the hotel guest room or meeting room appear as an extension of a private corporate data network.. No longer do business travelers have to tolerate the frustrations of slow dial-up in order to access their Corporate Network."

STSN supports hardware provided by all major VPN manufacturers, including Cisco 3000 and 5000 series VPN, Nortel Contivity VPN, Checkpoint 3.x and NG, Netscreen Remote VPN and SonicWALL.

About STSN

STSN is the leading global provider of wired and wireless high-speed data communications solutions to the hospitality industry. STSN's solutions provide increased productivity and connectivity options to business travelers worldwide with secure, easy-to use, high-speed data communications connections in more than 120,000 guestrooms and 4,000 hotel meeting rooms in the US and Western Europe. STSN is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah with additional offices in London and Frankfurt. For more information or to access a list of STSN-enabled hotels, visit www.stsn.com.

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and similar expressions that reflect STSN's current expectations about its future performance, and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause STSN's actual performance to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements.