Congratulations Exodus Communications, Inc.; Exodus Communications One of Silicon Valley's Top 10 "Fastest Growing Private Companies" Second Year in a Row.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1997--Exodus Communications, Inc. -- the leading provider of Internet Data Center services -- has been ranked one of the Silicon Valley's top 10 fastest growing private companies by The San Jose Business Journal for the second year in a row.

Exodus is the only Internet company listed among The San Jose Business Journal's top 100 fastest growing Silicon Valley companies. -0-

    Exodus provides Web server co-location, and enterprise-class
Internet systems management for companies whose Internet presence is
crucial to their business.  Exodus offers more Internet services
including:

    -- Internet scalability
    -- Internet performance
    -- Internet technology expertise
    -- Internet systems and network management
    -- 24x7 staffed network control center for site management and
       network troubleshooting

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Exodus is funded by a group of blue chip investors who have raised more than $30 million in capital to fuel the company's Internet Data Centers currently located in Santa Clara, Calif., Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. The company will also be opening Internet Data Centers in Boston, Washington, D.C., London and Tokyo by the end of 1997.

To discover why companies such as Hotmail, Oracle, National Semiconductor, Hearst New Media, and Blizzard Entertainment rely on Exodus, please contact Peter Brooks or Marty Moe, GCI Group, at 415/974-6200, or visit www.exodus.net .

CONTACT: GCI Group

Peter Brooks or Marty Moe, 415/974-6200