February 20, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of scalable Ethernet
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services, announced yesterday that it is extending its
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services across Europe and the United Kingdom in partnership with Storm
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Telecommunications (stormtel.com), a
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European provider of international network services, and Neos
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(neosnetworks.net), a national provider
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of gigabit Ethernet services in the United Kingdom.
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By combining network access, the partnership between Storm, Yipes and Neos
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offers U.S., U.K. and European businesses flexible Ethernet connections from
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1 megabit per second to 1 gigabit per second to major commercial centers in
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the United States and Europe. Storm’s Ethernet On-Demand service currently
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operates between London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam,
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increasing to eight European cities during 2002. The Neosnet national
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network covers Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Reading, Cambridge, Leeds,
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Leicester, Southport and 30 metro POPs covering the City of London, Metro
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London and the Thames Valley. The Yipes national network covers 21 U.S.
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cities including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York, Philadelphia,
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San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
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“On-demand” Ethernet services enable enterprises to easily extend their LANs
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between international offices and scale their bandwidth to cope with
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unpredictable demands, giving enterprise IT managers greater control over
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the WAN.
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“This is the first service of its kind with such international reach and is,
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I believe, the forerunner of how all wide area bandwidth will one day be
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provisioned. It seems crazy that businesses have up until now had to pay for
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bandwidth that they simply haven’t used,” said Bruno d’Avanzo, CEO and
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chairman of Storm. “This new networking model allows businesses to deploy
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bandwidth on a ‘pay as you grow’ basis, flexing and paying for bandwidth in
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the wide area when required.”
