University of Tennessee Enters Web Partnership with Framecast; UT Begins Affiliate Relationship With Framecast's Wired College Network for Web Portal Services

Business Wire, Dec 6, 2000

Business Editors

LENEXA, Kan. & KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000

Framecast Communications and the University of Tennessee (UT) today announced an affiliate partnership to integrate Framecast's Wired College Network (WCN) web portal services onto the UT web site.

In addition to providing UT students, staff and faculty with improved services such as national news, weather and research links and search engines, the affiliate relationship also creates opportunities for UT to earn revenue from web-based advertising, sponsorships and partnerships, and e-commerce without changing the University web site's academic and university image.

The Wired College Network is an inter-school community of affiliated university .EDU web sites that apply Framecast's technology to optimize the information resources available via the Internet to the growing online campus audience. At the same time, the WCN provides colleges and universities an avenue for generating revenue from their existing web properties by participating in carefully managed sponsorship, partnership, and advertising relationships.

Created in 1999, Framecast's WCN is the only Internet community that partners with schools to co-develop an interconnected academic community and enhance the value of existing college web sites. The WCN offers email, search engines, calendars and scheduling tools, news links, forums, chat groups and live streaming broadcasts, which are accessible without ever leaving the host school's web site.

Dr. Dwayne McCay, UT vice president for research and information technology, said: "As the state of Tennessee moves into the 21st century, the university has to provide the leadership to make that move effective. One way to do that is to take advantage of all appropriate revenue sources that are available. Framecast represents one example of that."

"We're pleased to be partnering with the University of Tennessee in a relationship that offers them new web resources and sources of revenue from their existing web properties," said Don Peterson, Framecast's CEO. "Our technology dramatically impacts the means available to the university's administrators to convert their substantial web site investment from a cost center into a potentially lucrative revenue source."

About The University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is the state's flagship university. The UT system includes the campus at Knoxville, the state's oldest and largest, which serves more than 26,000 students and 1,200 faculty, and has 15 colleges and schools. UTK acquired external research funding of more than $82 million in 1999, and is the only public university in Tennessee with Carnegie Extensive University classification. More than 100 National Merit Scholars are enrolled at UTK. The web address for UT's Knoxville campus is http://www.utk.edu/.> About Framecast Communications

Framecast Communications, Inc., a privately held company based in Lenexa, Kan., was founded in 1999 to deploy a revolutionary web technology called the Common Portal Framing System (CPFS) to targeted vertical markets on the Internet. The CPFS technology, subject to patent application approval, is the underlying architecture of the company's Internet Shopping service, WiredSavings.com, and the Wired College Network (www.wiredcollege.com), an Internet community focused on enhancing the value of college and university web sites which now reaches more than 190,000 students and 800,000 alumni through direct affiliate relationships with their schools and collegiate athletic organizations.

For more information on the company or technology, contact Framecast directly at 913/888-0067 or visit http://www.framecast.com.