V-SPAN Expands International Capabilities for IP Video Connect Plus; Company Boosts Capacity to Provide Service to Latin America and Far East.

Business Editors

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2003

V-SPAN, Inc., the world's leading provider of unified collaboration services, announced today the availability of an expanded international footprint for their IP Video Connect Plus service. With this announcement, V-SPAN adds twenty-four global points of presence (POPs) to its high performance, private video backbone. The expanded service now includes Latin American and Far East destinations including Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.

The new service takes advantage of the most recent developments in multi-protocol label switching (MPLS), allowing multiple private network customers to co-exist securely on a video backbone that has no way in or out of the public Internet. By leveraging this approach, V-SPAN is able to offer the same level of privacy traditionally afforded to customers of premium data networking solutions like Asynchronous Transmission Mode (ATM), without the high cost and administrative overhead of those solutions. Customers who prefer to conference outside of their private network can do so securely through V-SPAN's extensive gateway infrastructure, hosted in global points of presence.

"Customers are increasingly concerned about improving the quality and availability of their international routes and are trying to do so without additional cost," said Robert Mason, VP of IP Products and Strategy at V-SPAN. "Many of these customers can leverage IP without any stranded ISDN investment, since V-SPAN provides the services and support that allow a seamless transition to a hybrid environment," he added.

"On the right IP network, the reliability and quality of videoconferencing goes up and the costs go down dramatically, particularly for international calling; MASERGY's native MPLS network is the right network for video," said Chris Carr, Director of Video Markets at MASERGY. "MASERGY offers the industry's only, absolute, quality of service guarantees for video, pairing the MASERGY network with V-SPAN's industry leading conferencing services is a natural fit," added Carr.

About V-SPAN

V-SPAN is the leading unified collaboration services provider with an integrated services offering including videoconferencing, audioconferencing, webconferencing, video network management services and streaming for the enterprise and mid markets. Through Web-based self-service solutions, experienced full-service call centers and diversified global networks, V-SPAN enables customers to conduct electronic meetings, events and training from anyplace at anytime.

A privately held company, V-SPAN is based in suburban-Philadelphia and has offices in Denver, Toronto and London. V-SPAN provides services for more than 2000 companies and its client roster includes more than one-third of Fortune 100 companies.

About Masergy Communications, Inc.

Masergy Communications, Inc., is a privately held global network service provider, focused on the business market. MASERGY specializes in providing advanced IP network services with the industry's most robust Quality of Service guarantees. These services enable the convergence of video, voice, data and Internet onto as a single IP infrastructure, each appropriately prioritized so as to enhance application performance, reduce network costs, and align network resource utilization with corporate priorities. For more information about MASERGY, visit the company at www.masergy.com or call 866/588-5885.