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News Releases
New Edge Networks Races Past 400-Site Milestone for Offering Broadband DSL Services; Equipment Installed in 28 States
VANCOUVER, Wash. – (Nov. 1, 2000) – New Edge Networks today announced it has activated its 400th market location and then some for offering wholesale high-speed broadband DSL services, and is nearing 28 states where basic and enhanced broadband services will be available through Internet service providers.
The leading national wholesale broadband services provider in small, midsize and semi-rural communities, New Edge Networks has installed DSL network equipment in nearly 150 other locations bringing to 559 the total number of installed or operational sites in 28 states.
“Speed to national coverage has been one of our key strategies and we’ve stayed focused on executing our business plan; no one provides broadband access services in small and midsize cities like we do,” said Dan Moffat, president, CEO and co-founder of New Edge Networks. “Our existing operational locations and our pending central offices, in combination with our relationship with metro broadband carriers like NorthPoint, give us a national broadband footprint second to none.”
Through its 413 operational locations, New Edge Networks is closing the digital divide in nearly 260 cities and towns in 21 states. These include Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The company focuses on communities with populations generally under 250,000 people, and first introduced broadband DSL service last December in Vancouver, Wash., its headquarters city.
In conjunction with its aggressive DSL network deployment, New Edge Networks has completed a national data communications network allowing customers to bypass major portions of the public Internet and avoid growing traffic congestion. The national backbone network is based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM technology capable of handling data, voice, video and other value-added services.
DSL technology uses ordinary copper phone lines in homes and businesses to enable access to the Internet and corporate data networks at guaranteed speeds of 1.5 million bits per second, and faster, compared to the typical 28,800 and 56,000 bits per second through dial-up modems. Other key benefits are “always on” connections eliminating
dialing up, long waiting and frustrating disconnects during downloads; secure access using dedicated facilities, and reliability because the network is monitored around the clock.
For business customers with dedicated leased lines from the local telephone company, DSL delivers generally the same speeds at half the monthly cost. Business-class DSL transmits and receives data at the same speed and is ideal for large graphic, text, audio and video file exchanges, company networking and collaborative functions.
About New Edge Networks
Based in Vancouver, Wash., New Edge Networks was founded in June 1999 to provide wholesale broadband DSL services nationally in small, midsize and semi-rural markets through local, regional and national Internet service providers, communications companies, and other strategic relationships. The company is certified to provide service in 49 states, and is focusing on introducing data service first and later overlaying voice, video and other value add services such as frame relay. The company’s national ATM backbone network currently has more than 550 nodes making it one of the largest in the country. The company's Web site is www.newedgenetworks.com.
Contact:
Sal Cinquegrani
(360) 906-9723
ATTN: New Edge Networks news releases contain information that is accurate as of the date they are issued. Information contained in past news releases may become out of date and the company does not assume responsibility for updating information contained in past news releases.