February 5, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of
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scalable Ethernet services, announced yesterday that its gigabit optical
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networks enable Apex Radiology (apexrad.com),
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a major private provider of outsourced tele-radiology services, to download more
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than 150,000 high-resolution medical images each month over the Internet.
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Apex Radiology, based in Coral Springs, FL, has teams of licensed
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radiologists on staff around the clock to immediately interpret images
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transmitted by medical providers and hospitals in nearly 30 states. Its
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services can save lives by giving doctors in rural and suburban offices
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remote access to radiology experts at any time of the day or night. Apex
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also helps major institutions in urban areas handle overflow work without
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sacrificing quality.
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Apex Radiology needs plenty of bandwidth, since incoming images run as large
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as 200 Megabytes. When it went shopping for a new service provider, it says
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its key criteria were reliability, footprint and value. Apex chose Yipes
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over a dozen other major carriers, buying 12 Megabits per second of
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bandwidth to the Internet.
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“Yipes was the most cost-effective, robust network out there,” said Wade
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Rome, president of Apex Radiology. “I liked its IP orientation, reliable
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fiber-optic architecture and excellent coverage area for metro and national
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connectivity. We felt its optical Ethernet service was far superior to
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traditional copper-based alternatives.”
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Yipes gives customers the ability to change bandwidth instantly to meet
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emergency needs, or simply to accommodate general business growth without
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new truck rolls, equipment purchases or new line installations. Through a
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secure Web site, users can instantly select their bandwidth from 1 Mbps to
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1000 Mbps, in 1 Mbps increments.
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In the past, the constraints of fixed telco networks forced Apex to turn
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down business, knowing that it couldn’t add bandwidth in time to meet
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customer needs. “Yipes allows us to make business decisions based on the
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client’s merits without having to factor in the network,” Rome said. “We
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could easily double our business over the next 12 to 18 months,” he added.
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Rome also said Yipes has proven to be reliable, with no downtime since Apex
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was connected in August. “One time we disconnected our network from Yipes’
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port to move some equipment, and immediately we got a call from Yipes’
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customer care center asking if we had a problem,” Rome recalled.
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Yipes’ services, available in 21 markets coast-to-coast, include Yipes MAN
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(Metro Area Networking), Yipes NAN (National Area Networking) and Yipes NET
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(high-speed Internet access).
