Frontier and GlobalCenter Combine Technologies; Combining Leading Internet Technology with National Fiber Optic IP Network Sets Stage for Leadership of Integrated Communications Market.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1998--Frontier Corporation (NYSE:FRO) announced today that it has completed the first stage of combining the Internet technologies of newly acquired GlobalCenter, its global digital distribution company, into its portfolio of integrated communications offerings. GlobalCenter will now be known as "Frontier GlobalCenter."

"GlobalCenter staked out its leadership position in Internet business services with digital distribution and a commitment to customer service," said Doug Hickey, senior vice president of Frontier and president of Frontier GlobalCenter. "Frontier has the strength of being facilities-based and the resources to quickly deploy new products. Expect the new Frontier GlobalCenter to amplify its leadership position by being first-to-market with new Internet and data services that help businesses maximize the power of the Internet."

By completing the acquisition and combining services in just six weeks, Frontier and GlobalCenter demonstrated their combined commitment to be fast-to-market with new, innovative and customer driven integrated communications products and services. Frontier now provides a complete array of integrated communications products and services ranging from local telephone service to high-end Internet content distribution. "GlobalCenter has been providing digital distribution services to Yahoo! since we began our Web directory in 1995," said Tim Koogle, CEO of Yahoo!

"I view the combination of GlobalCenter and Frontier Corporation as the beginning of a best of breed service. Because of its comprehensive line of service offerings, I would expect the new company will be an unrivaled provider of integrated communications solutions." Frontier's self-healing SONET fiber optic network for voice and data will be able to pass an estimated 460 Gbps (gigabits per second). Because Frontier GlobalCenter will be facilities-based, owning and managing its own IP backbone, it will have access to virtually unlimited capacity. The network will enable bandwidth-intensive content and applications such as database replication, voice and fax over IP, streaming multimedia technologies and real-time content mirroring. The Frontier network will be completed by year's end, with more than 25 percent already completed and passing traffic.

Also by year's end, Frontier GlobalCenter will complete building an international ATM backbone to transport frame relay, bridged LAN, virtual private networks (VPNs) and other managed services. The company plans to wholesale a portion of this network to ISPs and other data services companies.

Frontier GlobalCenter currently handles close to two billion page view per month and 200 million Internet requests daily. More than 60 percent of all Internet searches and 70 percent of all online financial discussions take place on Frontier GlobalCenter's digital distribution architecture. Digital distribution links the end user more closely to content, resulting in a better Internet experience. The digital distribution architecture overcomes shortcomings in the Internet infrastructure by combining public and private interconnects with geographically dispersed Media Distribution Centers (located in the Silicon Valley, Phoenix, Washington DC, New York metro and London, England areas) and intelligent end-user routing software to push content to the perimeter of the network.

Frontier's 1200 person sales force will now offer a complete array of data services, from dial-up Internet access to mission critical content distribution via the digital distribution architecture. These data services will be readily available to Frontier's extensive base of existing business customers. The path is set for Frontier to capture a major share of this burgeoning integrated services market. Frontier's data and Internet offerings now include:

--PrimeWeb is a web hosting and publishing service for growing businesses needing a professional quality online presence. PrimeWeb gives customers everything they need to design their own basic Web site and put it on the Internet in under an hour.

--Site Express Solo for small to medium sized businesses, lets customers locate their own Web server in any one of our Media Distribution Centers and connect to the Internet via Frontier GlobalCenter's digital distribution architecture, for a fixed, low monthly price.

--Site Express is the premier digital distribution service for businesses that rely on the Internet as a distribution channel for media rich content, products and services. Site Express customers locate their dedicated server hardware at one or more geographically dispersed Media Distribution Centers so their content is always available, highly responsive, and close to their customers.

--Software Express facilitates FTP software downloads. Software Express is used by companies like Netscape, and has scaled to deliver up to 250,000 browser downloads per day.

--Event Express brings Internet sites online to handle enormous bandwidth requirements with little or no advance planning, allowing customers to gain widespread public exposure by participating in major Internet events.

--Direct Connect is a newly expanded dedicated Internet access product. Direct Connect builds on GlobalCenter's original PrimeDirect product for DS0 (56 Kbps), T1 (1.5 Mbsp) and T3 (45 Mbps) connectivity, but expands service coverage to all major U.S. markets.

--Private Line provides analog and digital high speed point-to-point transmission for data and video applications, supporting bandwidths between DS0 (56 Kbps) to T-1 (1.5 Mbps). Customers only pay for bandwidth used.

--ISDN-PRI allows customers to manage high volumes of inbound and outbound calls. The service allows existing T-1 lines to support high speed digital transmission, multiple line sharing, automatic number identification and sophisticated call-processing capabilities.

--Frame Relay links multiple locations with a fast, reliable data transmission network which scales from DS0 (56 Kbps) to T-1 (1.5 Mbps), and offers monitoring tools to give customers easy access via the Internet to switch information, historical usage monitoring and complete utilization statistics and circuit IDs of their network.

--Frontier now boasts more than 100,000 combined business subscribers to Frontier's OneLine Connect and Frontier GlobalCenter's PrimeConnect dial-up services. OneLine Connect is enhanced with three additional e-mail boxes per account and 220 local dial-in numbers. An integrated product will be announced later this year.

All of Frontier GlobalCenter's products and services are supported by 24 / 7 customer service. Single and multi-server content customers are assigned Technical Account Managers (TAMs) who serve as technology service centers to help make hardware and software decisions and handle technical support concerns. The TAMs are unique to Frontier GlobalCenter, and a major factor as to why the company is a premiere digital distribution services provider and the market leader in content hosting.

"I believe that before the year 2000, data services and the Internet will account for more than 90 percent of corporate traffic," said Jonathan Heiliger, CTO of Frontier GlobalCenter. "Integrating GlobalCenter's digital distribution architecture into Frontier's fiber optic infrastructure provides enormous opportunity for the development of new Internet applications, as well as to shape the future of both consumer and business-to-business Internet products and services. Being facilities based means that the availability of core network bandwidth is no longer a factor in application development, network performance or pricing. Frontier is positioned to become the market leader in IP services as it turns up its network."

About Frontier GlobalCenter

Rochester, New York-based Frontier Corporation is a leading provider of integrated communications services to business customers and owns and manages one of the largest self-healing nationwide fiber optic IP networks. The company's data services division, Frontier GlobalCenter, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a premier global digital distribution company. Frontier GlobalCenter enables businesses to establish and manage the Internet as a strategic channel, offering a complete range of data and Internet services including dial-up access, dedicated connectivity and high-end content distribution. The company counts the biggest brand names in the Internet as its content distribution customers including Yahoo!, Netscape, USA Today, Electronic Arts, Talk City and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.globalcenter.net.

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