Tuesday
July 31, 8:32 am Eastern Time
Press
Release
Net2Phone
Boosts Presence Throughout Asia
Company's
Continued Commitment to Asia Results in Wider Range
of Availability of Net2Phone Services
NEWARK,
N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2001--In its ongoing effort
to enhance network infrastructure and call quality globally,
Net2Phone Inc. (Nasdaq:NTOP
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has established a peering relationship and invested in
data center capacity from PowerNet, a leading Pan-Asian
Internet Service Provider.
Net2Phone
will co-locate its Internet telephony gateways at PowerNet's
state-of-the-art Hong Kong-based network infrastructure.
Through this relationship, Net2Phone will peer its network
with PowerNet's ISP network, enabling higher quality
Voice over IP calls throughout Asia. By peering with
PowerNet, calls get routed to Net2Phone's voice-optimized
managed IP network.
Net2Phone
can now take advantage of PowerNet's leading IP infrastructure
to increase its cost-effective termination rates worldwide
as well as a real-time management platform to monitor
routing, billing, network connectivity and rates.
``PowerNet
provides a super-node for Net2Phone to offer the highest
of Internet infrastructure and quality to our customers
in Asia,'' said Howard Balter, CEO of Net2Phone. ``This
relationship will now give our resellers the ability
to offer increased quality of service to their customers
and become competitive with other players in the region.''
Samuel
Kam, CEO of PowerNet, was enthusiastic about the relationship.
``Net2Phone has been a major customer for several years,
and clearly the best technical provider in the market
for IP traffic. By formalizing our arrangements into
a strategic partnership for Asia, we each benefit from
common marketing and bulk purchasing of bandwidth, and
Net2Phone has an advanced platform from which to expand
its global reach.''
About
Net2Phone
Founded
in 1995, Net2Phone is a leading provider of voice and
enhanced services over IP networks to consumers, businesses
and carriers worldwide. With millions of users around
the world, Net2Phone enables toll-quality calls between
computers, telephones and broadband devices utilizing
IP networks. Recognized as the first company to bridge
the Internet with the public switched telephone network,
Net2Phone has routed more than 1.5 billion minutes of
traffic over its award-winning network. Traded on the
Nasdaq under the symbol NTOP, Net2Phone's strategic
partners and investors include AT&T, America Online
and Yahoo!. Net2Phone also offers enhanced hosted service
solutions, including voice recognition, for businesses
around the world. For more information about Net2Phone's
products and services, please visit www.net2phone.com.
PowerNet
is an Internet Infrastructure Solutions provider, providing
Internet solutions engineered for ICPs/ISPs/ASPs and
Internet businesses with high-powered, bullet proof
and scalable systems. With extensive experience and
expertise, PowerNet has recently opened Asia's highest
speed Internet Data and Exchange Center, PowerNetix.
This six star facility caters to telecommunications,
ISPs and Internet businesses wanting the highest connectivity
standards and solutions in the industry. Staying on
the forefront of the latest technologies and developments,
PowerNet has evolved from an ISP to a leading Infrastructure
Solutions and Network provider in the region.
This
press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual
results could differ materially from those discussed
in the forward-looking statements. For this purpose,
any statements contained in this press release that
are not statements of historical fact may be deemed
to be forward-looking statements. Factors which may
affect the Company's results include, but are not limited
to, the Company's ability to expand its customer base,
the Company's ability to develop additional and leverage
its existing distribution channels for its products
and solutions, dependence on strategic and channel partners
including their ability to distribute the Company's
products and meet or renew their financial commitments,
the Company's ability to address international markets,
the effectiveness of the Company's sales and marketing
activities, the acceptance of the Company's products
in the marketplace, the timing and scope of deployments
of the Company's products by customers, fluctuations
in customer sales cycles, customers' ability to obtain
additional funding, technical difficulties with respect
to the Company's products or products in development,
the need for ongoing product development in an environment
of rapid technological change, the emergence of new
competitors in the marketplace, the Company's ability
to compete successfully against established competitors
with greater resources, the uncertainty of future governmental
regulation, the Company's ability to manage growth,
obtain patent protection, and obtain additional funds,
general economic conditions and other risks discussed
in this Report and in the Company's other filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking
statements and risk factors included in this document
are made as of the date hereof, based on information
available to the Company as of the date thereof, and
the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statement or risk factors.
Contact:
Net2Phone Corporate
Communications, Newark
Sarah Hofstetter, 973/412-2882
sarah@net2phone.com
or
Net2Phone Investor Relations, Newark
Kewhyun Kelly-Yuoh, 973/412-3660
kew@net2phone.com
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