FiberNet Telecom to light the Chrysler Center.

FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. and OnSite Access, Inc. have announced the signing of a Master Service Agreement to offer advanced communications services to tenants at the world famous Chrysler Center in Manhattan. Under the terms of this agreement, FiberNet will interconnect its high-speed redundant SONET network inside the Chrysler Center with OnSite Access, enabling OnSite Access to deliver advanced digital communications, high-speed Internet and broadband data services directly to tenants.

For the first time in the industry FiberNet, a carriers' carrier, is extending the fiber optic SONET based networks, typically deployed in the streets and nationwide, directly to the building and the floors of tenants nationwide.

"We are the first all-optical alternative to the ILEC for complete local loop transport from a carrier's POP to the customer floor," said Michael Liss, FiberNet's president and CEO. "We are making this alternative available on a non-discriminatory basis to carriers and service providers to reach and deliver services to tenants in FiberNet lit buildings. Under the terms of this agreement, OnSite Access will utilize the FiberNet in-building Network (FIN) to deliver advanced telecommunications and data services to the tenants of the Chrysler Center."

"This agreement provides business tenants inside the Chrysler Center with access to a powerful network and a robust package of communications services equal to those afforded Fortune 500 companies," said Howard Taylor, chairman and CEO of OnSite Access. "Cooperative agreements like this also allow building owners and tenants to leverage the strengths of two companies that are dedicated to creating smart buildings' ready for the millennium."

FiberNet has lit four strands of fiber on its metropolitan area backbone covering Downtown and Midtown Manhattan. The company's initial plan is to focus on New York City and pursue a "carriers' carrier" marketing strategy, selling primarily to telecom carriers and other communications service providers in Class A and dot.com buildings. FiberNet has license agreements with national building owners for the construction, implementation and operation of intra-building, fiber optic transmission networks that interconnect with the company's metropolitan area backbone.

OnSite Access is offering a full suite of products and services in commercial office buildings throughout the United States. The availability of these enhanced services gives commercial property owners a unique marketing and leasing tool for attracting and retaining quality tenants. For the tenants of these buildings, OnSite Access offers one-stop shopping for competitively priced communications services bundled into a single invoice.

"With this agreement, the Chrysler Center and its tenants will gain access to our high-speed, bandwidth intensive services running on FiberNet's robust and technologically advanced fiber backbone," said Daren W. Hornig, executive vice president of real estate services for OnSite Access. "We are leveling the playing field for businesses to have access to the same type of telecom products and services formally only available to large companies."

"It is the best of both worlds - tenants of the Chrysler Center can now combine the innovative and cost effective products and services of OnSite with the high quality speed and redundancy of the fiber optic network that FiberNet has made available for carriers in the Chrysler Center," added Les Hankinson, senior vice president of sales and marketing for FiberNet.

FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. is a facilities-based carrier that designs, builds and operates intra-building and metropolitan area broadband networks in commercial, multi-tenant office buildings in national Tier 1 markets.