NAP of the Americas Selected By Reality Networks As Its Hub For Global Broadcast Services; NAP of the Americas Penetrates IP/Video Broadcasting Market.Business Editors/High Tech Writers MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2002 Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :TWW TWW The West Wing (TV show) TWW The Wind Waker (Nintendo Zelda video game) TWW Teaming with Wildlife TWW Two-Week Wait TWW The War Within (Transformers comics) ), the only carrier-neutral operator of a Tier-1 NAP and a provider of Internet infrastructure and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality , announced that Reality Networks, Inc., a leader in managed broadcast content services, has become a customer of the NAP of the Americas. Reality Networks will deploy its mission-critical equipment in the NAP, taking advantage of the critical mass of carriers that provide an unprecedented amount of bandwidth and of the variety of value-added managed services offered by Terremark. This new customer contract has a minimum aggregate value of $9 million over its five-year life and makes the NAP of the Americas Reality Network's exclusive U.S. location. Reality Networks has developed both video data mining and historical time framing proprietary technologies, as well as a film and video content delivery system to create the world's only total turnkey solution that allows both cost effective and intuitive search and retrieval of rich media content in digitized libraries. Its content management solution for the broadcast industry is especially designed to maximize security, disaster recovery and business continuity, and minimize the risk of downtime and lost revenue. "We will provide disaster recovery and hundreds of thousands of hours of broadcast quality content on demand to many of the leading companies in the broadcast industry," said Jose Luis Gonzalez Luis Gonzalez is a common personal name that can refer to different people:
It is important to note that Reality Networks represents a new customer market for Terremark--the broadcast industry. Reality Networks provides broadcast managed content solutions to companies such as the Cisneros Group The Cisneros Group of Companies is one of the largest, privately held media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products organizations in the world. The Group owns or holds interests in companies ranging from broadcast television, networks and pay television businesses of Companies, one of the largest privately held broadcast, media, technology, consumer products and telecommunications organizations in the world with over 70 companies and annual revenues of $4 billion; and WHDT WHDT Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre (Wytheville, VA) , a high definition television station out of West Palm Beach, Florida West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida. According to the University of Florida's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 107,617. . "The NAP of the Americas provides Reality Networks with a compelling value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. proposition it can offer to its customers - our critical mass of carriers is perfectly suited for the high bandwidth needs of broadcast companies," said Manuel D. Medina, Chairman and CEO of Terremark Worldwide, Inc. "Our contract with Reality Networks also confirms that customers other than carriers, ISP's and backbone providers recognize the importance of locating at the NAP of the Americas." About Terremark Worldwide, Inc./NAP of the Americas Terremark Worldwide Inc. (AMEX:TWW) is a global leader in facilitating Internet connectivity and providing Internet infrastructure and managed services. Terremark is the owner and operator of the NAP of the Americas, the 5th Tier-1 Network Access Point in the world and the model for TerreNAP(sm) Data Centers the company intends to deploy in emerging markets. The carrier-neutral NAP of the Americas is a state-of-the-art facility providing interconnection between global carriers, ISPs and others, as well as connecting fiber networks in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe, Asia and Africa to those in the U.S. Terremark is headquartered at 2601 S. Bayshore Drive, 9th Floor, Miami, Florida “Miami” redirects here. For the Native American tribe, see Miami tribe. Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a gamma world city with an estimated population of 404,048. USA, (305) 856-3200. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at http://www.terremark.com. About Reality Networks Reality Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of management content services and disaster recovery. The company offers a comprehensive list of services that address the needs of broadcast and entertainment companies through its media management and distribution offerings. Services encompass gathering raw and finished content from its initial state and processing it through image analysis, propriarity data mining, digitization, categorization, re-purposing and incremental revenue-generating redistribution. Statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Terremark's actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements due to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, as discussed in Terremark's filings with the SEC. These factors include, without limitation, Terremark's ability to obtain funding for its business plans, uncertainty in the demand for Terremark's services or products and Terremark's ability to manage its growth. Terremark does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. |
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