ISWest buys fellow ISP VCNet. (Media & Technology).

Agoura Hills-based Internet service provider ISWest Inc. has acquired fellow ISP VCNet of Camarillo for about $2 million.

Drew Kaplan, vice president of ISWest, said the deal gives the company a greater foothold in eastern Ventura County, where the bulk of the company's customers are.

"The merger also gives ISWest a total of 10 tier-one backbone providers under one roof, for redundancy and fastest routing," he said.

About 70 percent of ISWest's 2,500 customers are in Ventura County with the remainder in Los Angeles County. VCNet has 1,400 customers. The two companies provide Internet service to businesses for business-to-business purposes. ISWest was founded in 1996.