8/28/00
Concentric Connects Surging Asian Market by Providing Global Transit Services to GNG Networks
GNG Networks is Third Korean Provider to Increase Bandwidth Capacity Using Global Transit
SAN JOSE, CA - Concentric, a NEXTLINK Communications Company (NASDAQ: NXLK), and a leading provider of e-business solutions for growing companies, today announced that it is providing Global Transit services to GNG Networks, the leading infrastructure provider in Korea. This marks the third leading service provider this year in the quickly growing Korean market to increase network capacity with Global Transit connectivity from Concentric. GNG Networks will access Concentric’s Tier 1 Internet backbone through submarine cable systems.
GNG Networks is one of the largest telecommunication carriers in the Korean market with over 5000 miles of fiber optic cable network. GNG is currently transforming its business focus to providing Internet infrastructure and hosting services via a brand new, state-of-the-art, 150,000 square foot data center in Seoul. By expanding this network to the U.S. using Concentric’s Global Transit services, GNG Networks can connect to Concentric’s redundant, ATM/OC-3/OC-12 backbone to more quickly deliver international data traffic. In addition to supporting the delivery of U.S.-centric content, Concentric Global Transit service will be critical for Korean content demand originating in the United States and sourced out of GNG's data center operations.
“Our partnership with Concentric will further our journey toward becoming the leading Internet infrastructure specialty company in Korea,” said Juho Hahm, managing director of GNG Networks’ Internet Data Center business division. “Concentric’s extensive peering arrangements and flexible network architecture - which ensures that our Internet traffic flows as efficiently as possible - is essential to providing high-performance access for our customers.”
“Global Transit from Concentric is helping companies such as GNG Networks kick start their global presence, as well as providing the flexibility to rapidly grow that presence in the future,” said Mark Fisher, senior vice president of marketing for Concentric. “With three providers in Korea already using Concentric bandwidth, we feel confident that we are providing this market with faster connections and better user experiences for their customers.”
About GNG Networks GNG Networks, the leading company for the Internet Infrastructure Providers, in Korea, has been providing various services such as Domestic/International leased line services, Frame-relay services, Network services, etc. The company, having their own fiber optic network over 5,000 miles around the nation, is now determined to fit into the next generation carriers by entering global service by constantly expanding the network, establishing large-scale internet data center, and super-high speed IP network setting. GNG Networks is headquartered in Seoul, Korea. For more information about the company, visit http://www.gng.co.kr About IDC, visit http://www.gngidc.net
About Concentric Network Corporation Concentric Network, an operating unit of NEXTLINK Communications, is a global provider of leading data and Internet services. Together with NEXTLINK, the company offers local and long distance voice, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) access, Web hosting and e-commerce, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), dedicated access, global transit and application infrastructure services for delivering applications over the Internet or a VPN.
NEXTLINK has assembled an unrivaled set of facilities-based broadband networks that, when complete, will serve much of the United States, Canada and Europe. In the United States, NEXTLINK has more than 430,000 fiber miles in operation and a 384,000 fiber-mile inter-city network under construction. The Company is also North America’s largest holder of fixed broadband wireless spectrum, with licenses covering 95 percent of the population of the 30 largest U.S. cities and a partnership with licenses covering all of the top cities in Canada. NEXTLINK has also agreed in principle to acquire more than 80,000 metro fiber miles in Europe to serve the London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris markets and an 88,000 fiber-mile pan-European fiber network connecting 21 major European cities and transatlantic capacity that will eventually expand to 10 Gbps.
Publicly traded NEXTLINK (NASDAQ:NXLK) is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and Concentric is located in San Jose, California. For more information visit www.NEXTLINK.com or www.concentric.net or contact Public Relations at publicrelations@concentric.com.
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