Australia's Largest Internet Exchange to Open in Melbourne; Frontier GlobalCenter content facility to bring local carriers and content together promising enhanced Web performance and Australian Internet expansion.

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1998--Frontier GlobalCenter, a wholly owned subsidiary of Frontier Corporation (NYSE:FRO), has announced that it will open an Internet exchange in Melbourne that will enhance Web performance by bringing content closer to end users.

Frontier GlobalCenter, a global leader in digital distribution and Internet content distribution services, will locate an advanced Media Distribution Center in Melbourne, the hub for all major Australian Internet, which will deliver improved Internet performance to the burgeoning Australian online community. It also opens the door for dramatic growth in domestic content and an influx of international content. The Melbourne Internet Exchange (MIX) facility will be completed in May and will be operational 60 days after that date.

"Australia has one of the fastest growing online populations in the world and the MIX will help our U.S. customers reach a new and important audience for their content," said Doug Hickey, president of Frontier GlobalCenter. "Equally as important, the MIX's added benefit is that it helps the Internet grow more rapidly in Australia. Our expertise in building data networks in the U.S. has enhanced our ability to quickly build the MIX and plan for future facilities here in Australia."

The MIX will save local carriers from having to pay to transit Internet traffic to the U.S. or Europe, thus providing them tremendous cost savings. Carriers also derive cost savings from the ability to transit data on their own networks instead of paying competitors for the same data. Since the MIX is a central facility, Australian carriers can use it to establish peering between their networks.

"By locating their servers with Frontier GlobalCenter at the MIX, Internet content providers will greatly enhance the performance of their Web sites for Australian end-users," said Terry Gray, Frontier GlobalCenter managing director for Australia. "Frontier GlobalCenter's expertise, used to build a network architecture that handles over 500 million hits a day and over 4.5 billion page views a month, is now in Australia. The MIX facility is currently ready to accept fiber optic network connections from all local carriers."

"As the Australian Internet grows and becomes increasingly competitive, exchange points like the MIX will become more important to help networks scale and provide users with a better Internet experience," added Dan Rasmussen, Frontier GlobalCenter's vice president of international operations. "The MIX will improve the Internet experience for the end-user, and bring more usr Internet-centric business."

The MIX cre of the MIX can easily scale to multiple ATM switches and Gigabit interconnects. The MIX is equipped to handle the highest IP scalability needs and the most exploso international ICPs by providing them a local site to host their content. The MIX also enhances the ability for local businesses to develop the Internet as a strategic channel for content and commerce.

Frontier GlobalCenter pioneered digital distribution and used this acclaimed architecture in the U.S. and Europe to locate content closer to the end-user, providing them with a non-stop Internet integrated communications services t o business ntier Gl obalCenter, headquartered in Sunnyvalege of data and Internet services including dial-line, 408/328-4706

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