Feb, 2002 : Aspire.net Selects Yipes as Primary Bandwidth Carrier

📅 February 8, 2002 - Aspire.net Managed Systems Inc. and Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com) announced yesterday the nationwide availability of managed multi-carrier connectivity services targeted to the legal community.

Aspire.net will use the Yipes MAN service to deliver law firms secure,high-bandwidth application and managed network services between diverselylocated offices and data centers. Aspire.net's connectivity and applicationservices will provide customers a solution for consolidating server andtechnology operations and for outsourcing security, firewall, businesscontinuity and remote access.
Aspire.net selected Yipes after a one-year evaluation of competitiveconnectivity solutions. The Yipes MAN service offers the reliability of anall-fiber network brought to the customer premise, the bandwidth potentialof a gigabit optical network, the simplicity of Ethernet and customercontrol of bandwidth over a secure Web interface, the company says. Yipesguarantees latency within its large metro optical networks to be less than10 ms and its fiber passes within a quarter mile more than half a millionbusinesses in major markets across the country.
"We provide a carrier-independent connectivity solution that changes thecost equation for law firms to deliver much greater bandwidth at very highlevels of availability while reducing their technology costs and avoidingsingle-carrier lock-in," said Sam Collier, CEO of Aspire.net. "SelectingYipes as one of the primary metro Ethernet providers for our multi-carrierconnectivity platform allows us to couple a high speed long-haul networkwith diversely-routed last mile connections. Our customers can count onAspire.net as a single point of responsibility, with strong service levelcommitments and a single Service Level Agreement."

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