Company Fuses Today's Incomplete Networks, Providing 100 Percent Continuous Internet Access; Customers Increase Productivity, Avoid Lost Revenue With nfusen Solution.

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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2001

Today nfusen announces the launch of new services in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. No longer accepting the risk of network downtime, nfusen's customers gain increased revenue, productivity and peace of mind by achieving 100 percent continuous Internet access. nfusen takes today's incomplete networks, which are riddled with multiple points of failure, and completes them with a variety of alternative connections, eliminating single points of failure in the Internet Delivery Chain.

Internet traffic typically passes through a minimum of 12 intersections, or 12 potential points of failure.

"The heart of our business is understanding the difficulties companies face in a highly competitive environment," said Bill Rary, chief executive officer of nfusen. "The bottom line is when connections fail, employees sit idle and e-business comes to a halt."

The average cost to businesses is $8,000 per hour of site downtime (Forrester Research), with commerce-heavy big retailers losing as much as a quarter of a million dollars an hour when their connectivity is lost.

nfusen's solution is a managed Internet Delivery Chain that completes customers' existing Internet architecture to provide 100 percent continuous connectivity, allowing customers to get seamless connectivity even when their primary route connection fails. The company is a single point of contact for managing alternate routes for each point of the Internet Delivery Chain, providing a total solution that is customer-specific.

"nfusen's goal is to keep our customers in business all the time," said Drew Robertson, director of marketing."

For its customers, nfusen creates a customized, comprehensive series of physically diverse, alternative connections to ensure a seamless, uninterruptible Internet Delivery Chain. The company continuously monitors and manages both the primary and alternative chain 24x7x365, allowing for hot standby fail over and problem identification down to the chain component. This provides a fused, completed Internet network.

"nfusen is raising the bar to 100% application, production and revenue availability, 100% of the time," said Rary. "Our customers demand that level of capability and we are the organization that can ensure it is delivered."

Rary began his career with IBM. He has held senior management and executive positions with leading technology and communications organizations such as Siemens, Compression Labs, Inc., VCON, Inc., and ADC Telecommunications 

With offices in Dallas and Atlanta, nfusen is headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. The new Dallas office is located at Highland Park Place, 4514 Cole Avenue, Suite 600.