October 9, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ardent Communications, Inc. (ardentcomm.com), a provider ofbroadband access and bundled data services, announced yesterday that it hassigned over 20,000 customers to date. Ardent’s customer base includesbusinesses from a wide-range of industries that subscribe to a variety ofservice offerings.
Ardent’s services include dedicated Internet connectivity, Web hosting andco-location services, satellite back-up connectivity, and virtual privatenetworking solutions.
“The change from our exclusive focus on the hospitality market as CAIS to amore general ISP focus as Ardent has truly been positive for the company. Inthis market, it is hard for businesses to find an Internet provider that isgrowing and innovating as Ardent continues to do,” said Mike Lee, CEO ofArdent. “Our customers’ appreciation of our aggressiveness and expansion isshown through our revenue and customer growth over the past several months.We look forward to signing on our 30,000th customer in the near future.”
Ardent’s customer base consists of small, medium, and large businesses in awide-range of industries including government agencies, telecom andInternet, hotels and hospitality establishments, and retail chains. Ardentrecently announced that it incorporated Multi Protocol Label Switching inits network end-to-end, offering customers greater reliability andperformance of their data across our nationwide network. MPLS also enablesArdent to offer next generation networking solutions such as MPLS-basedVirtual Private Networks.
