WebTrends and PSINet Inc. Partner to Deliver Web Site Statistics for Historic Space Shuttle Flight STS-95

Business Wire, Nov 9, 1998

PORTLAND, Ore./HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 1998-- WebTrends Corporation, the leader and pioneer in enterprise management of Internet and intranet servers today announced an agreement with PSINet Inc. (NASDAQ:PSIX), the first and largest independent commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP), to provide Web traffic statistics for Web sites associated with three space missions.

NASA and PSINet Inc. have signed a Space Act Agreement under which PSINet and its partners are currently providing Internet connectivity and managed Web hosting for the NASA Shuttle Web site -- home to the in-process STS-95 mission. In addition, PSINet will provide the same services for the NASA Station Web and NASA Shuttle-Mir Web sites associated with two subsequent missions scheduled for November 20 and December 3, 1998, respectively. Under the agreement, PSINet will provide managed Web hosting services for these high-volume NASA Web sites through the end of the current calendar year at no cost to the government.

"Our primary goal throughout this mission is to provide a stable, reliable, and high-performance hosting environment for the official shuttle.nasa.gov Web site and we plan to continue this through the end of the year for the other two missions," said Eric Dorsch, director of Web Services for PSINet Inc. "Through our partnership with WebTrends we are now gathering accurate, easy to interpret statistical data that will be available after the mission is complete. This solution will continue to provide improved access for the general public to information about STS-95,`independent commercial Internet service provider in the world, PSINet offers a broad set of high-speed corporate LAN connectivity services supporting managed security and guaranteed Internet, intranet, electronic commerce, Web hosting services, and services for other carriers and ISPs. PSINet operates an international state-of-the-art frame relay-based, IP-optimized network consisting of over 500 points of presence (PoPs) around the world serving primary markets in Africa, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. General PSINet information can be obtained by e-mail at info@psi.com, by accessing the Web site at http://www.psinet.com, or by calling 800/809-3711.

WebTrends Corporation (www.webtrends.com) develops premier enterprise management solutions for Internet and intranet servers and firewalls. Founded in 1993, the company is based in Portland, Oregon, and is privately held. WebTrends products include the WebTrends Log Analyzer, the WebTrends Professional Suite, the WebTrends Enterprise Suite and WebTrends for Firewalls and VPNs, products that are used and praised by thousands of ISPs and corporate, government, and educational institutions. WebTrends products analyze internet and intranet log files greater than 10Gbytes (40 million hits/day) from any web server, including those from Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Lotus (NYSE:IBM), Check Point Software (Nasdaq:CHKPF), Network Associates (Nasdaq:NETA) and Open Market (NASDAQ:OMKT).

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