Internet Specialties West Announces Plans to Expand Its Web Hosting and Co-Location Services

Business Wire, June 16, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2000

ISWest, one of Southern California's largest and most experienced Business-to-Business ISPs, today announced it will expand its web hosting and Co-location services in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

"Other co-location facilities such as Level 3 (Nasdaq:LVLT) and Qwest (NYSE:Q) are turning away business right now for space limitation problems. ISWest has benefited from this overcrowding and has some space available in its 3,000-sqft Westlake Village data center and its 500-sqft Ventura center," says Robert V. Johnson, President of ISWest. ISWest is located 25 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. ISWest maintains a fully redundant fiber optic OC-12 with multiple DS-3 backbones, multi-homed on Global Crossing (Nasdaq:GBLX), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Cable & Wireless (NYSE:CWP), UUNET (Nasdaq:WCOM) and others.

Growing demand for all types of hosting services -- from co-location, to outsourced applications, to shared and dedicated servers -- is driving the acceleration of ISWest's investment plans. Forrester Research, Inc. projects that U.S. Business Internet Services will grow from $7.7 billion in 1999 to $56.6 billion in 2003, including hosting services which they project will increase from $2.0 billion in 1999 to $14.6 billion in 2003. Forrester also projects that the application hosting market will grow from $0.9 billion in 1999 to $11.3 billion in 2003, with small and medium-sized businesses.

"We are planning to build a 10-20 thousand square foot server co-location facility in Westlake Village, Los Angeles in the next 6-12 months to accommodate this phenomenal growth rate," says Drew J. Kaplan, Vice President of ISWest. "The future is clearly co-located servers running various proprietary applications."

About ISWest

ISWest is one of Southern California's largest and most experienced Business-to-Business ISPs. ISWest is a leading provider of comprehensive Internet services, with their focus on serving the small and mid-sized businesses and SOHO markets. The company offers customers a broad range of Internet solutions, including high-speed access, Web hosting, server co-location, virtual private networks and other enhanced services. ISWest supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable infrastructure and systems using Cisco gear (Nasdaq:CSCO).

For more information on ISWest, visit the company's Web site at www.iswest.com. The corporate headquarters are located in Westlake Village, California, at 31194 La Baya Drive, Suite 100, 91362, phone number 818/735-3000.