President Bush Names Internap CEO Greg Peters to National Infrastructure Advisory Council

The President established the NIAC in order to support a coordinated effort by both government and private sector entities to advise him on security of information systems supporting the nation's critical infrastructure. As a NIAC member, Peters will join a select group of leaders appointed to provide the President advice on these issues from a variety of sectors of the economy, including banking and finance, transportation, energy, manufacturing, and emergency government services.

"Mr. Peters represents the next generation of network service leaders," said U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). "He is a hands-on executive with a broad base of knowledge and telecommunications experience, which I believe will prove valuable to the work of this important committee as they seek to provide President Bush with advice and ideas to protect our nation's infrastructure."

"It is a privilege to have been selected to serve on the President's National Infrastructure Advisory Council," said Peters, in accepting the position. "Advances in information technology have changed the way our economy and government is run and, at the same time, created new security challenges. I look forward to working with corporate and government leaders on these important and timely issues."

Peters joins the CEOs of TXU, Cisco, Symantec, Internet Security Systems, Akamai Technologies, DuPont, Intel Corp., Pfizer Inc., Union Pacific Corp., Wells Fargo and others from the private sector, academia, and state and local government. The Council also works closely with the President's National Security and Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).

According to its charter, the NIAC draws members' expertise to provide advice and make recommendations on the following:

a. Enhancing cooperation between the public and private sectors in protecting information systems supporting critical infrastructures in key economic sectors and providing reports on the issue to the President;

b. Proposing and developing ways to encourage private industry to perform periodic risk assessments of critical information and telecommunications systems;

c. Monitoring the development of private sector Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) and providing recommendations to the President on how these organizations can best foster improved cooperation among ISACs, the Department of Homeland Security, and other Federal Government entities.

d. Advising the Federal Government lead agencies that have critical infrastructure responsibilities, industry sector coordinators and the Department of Homeland Security.

Internap provides high-performance Internet route management solutions to clients throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, delivering new and innovative technologies that provide network redundancy, intelligent routing diversity and unparalleled service guarantees, which give these enterprises the confidence to deploy on-demand, mission-critical applications over the public Internet. Internap currently provides solutions to a number of federal and state government sector customers directly and through partners, including the U.S.Departments of State, Defense and Justice; and Pennsylvania and Delaware, among others.

About Internap

Internap is the market leader of intelligent route-control solutions that bring reliability, performance and security to the Internet. The company's patented and patent-pending technology address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of the benefits of deploying business-critical applications such as e-commerce, Voice over IP (VoIP), video-conferencing, and streaming audio/video across the Internet. Through a portfolio of high-performance IP solutions, customers can bypass congestion points, overcome routing inefficiencies and optimize performance of their applications. Internap solutions are backed by an industry-leading performance guarantee that covers the entire Internet as opposed to just one network. These offerings include: network- and premise-based route optimization solutions, colocation, VPN, content distribution, managed security and managed storage services.

Internap currently serves approximately 1,900 customers including Fortune 1000 and mid-tier enterprises in the financial services, government; travel/hospitality, manufacturing, media/entertainment, technology and retail industries. The company provides services throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Japan with service expansion to Sydney, Singapore, and Hong Kong this spring. For more information, please visit the company website at www.internap.com.

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