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2002

December 12th, 2002 - THUS plc, one of the UK's leading providers of voice, networking, Internet and contact centre services, today launched National Ethernet, a broadband Ethernet service that builds upon THUS's recently launched metropolitan City Ethernet service by enabling UK companies to link sites across the UK through private Ethernet connections operating at the same high speed as their office network.

National Ethernet addresses an ever-increasing need for all the services available on a company's Local Area Network (LAN) to be quickly and easily accessible to all employees of a company, regardless of their location. This demand has been accelerated as companies look towards storage area networks and disaster recovery providers for hosting mission critical data and as the workforce becomes increasingly more mobile.

Ethernet already powers most company LANs, but for the majority of these companies when this traffic enters the leased line Wide Area Network (WAN) to travel to another office, it can slow to less than 10% of the LAN speed. National Ethernet removes this bandwidth bottleneck and opens the door to improved performance, greater usability and new ways of working whilst at the same time, simplifying the overall network architecture that a company has to manage.

"National Ethernet will become the first choice broadband platform for UK companies with serious bandwidth requirements. Customers will be able to use National Ethernet to reduce communication costs and achieve greater flexibility and agility within their businesses," said Bill Allan, Chief Executive, THUS. " With an ever increasing need to share applications and data across wider areas, THUS National Ethernet makes it simple for companies to build and manage cost effective multi-site networks without having to incur the overhead of running completely different technologies and systems."