Internap Chosen by Beon Media for High-Quality Image Delivery; For Groundbreaking GalleryPlayer Service, Delivering World's Best Art and Imagery to HD Video Monitors

Business Wire, Jan 18, 2005

ATLANTA -- Internap Network Services Corporation (AMEX: IIP), the leading provider of performance-based routing services over the Internet, announced today that Beon Media Inc., (www.beonmedia.com), whose groundbreaking new GalleryPlayer service allows consumers to view never-before-available museum quality art and photography right in their home on high-definition video displays, has chosen Internap as its preferred provider for high-performance Internet connectivity and routing solutions.

"We work with some of the world's best content sources like Corbis, Life Magazine, George Eastman House and The Andy Warhol Foundation, who have put their trust in Beon Media to make their incredible imagery available to consumers for the first time," explained Scott Lipsky, founder and chief executive officer of Beon Media. "The delivery of extremely high-definition art and imagery onto digital home galleries represents a brand new content channel and revenue model for the content owners. As such, it is extremely important for us to have a network service partner that provides the reliability, redundancy, quality service, service level agreements and value offered by Internap."

GalleryPlayer's initial consumer launch is as an Online Spotlight premier partner, accessible online directly from the "START MENU" on all Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition systems. GalleryPlayer will also soon be available on all Windows PCs, and as an on-demand service from cable and satellite providers.

Consumers choose a collection of images to play, selecting from a wide array of themes including lifestyle, landscapes, nature, sports, grand masters and much more. They can also set the duration each image is displayed, as well as turn "on" and "off" various preferences and parental controls.

Internap's unique multi-carrier intelligent routing technology, which uses Private Network Access Points (P-NAPs) to speed Internet traffic from one location to another, is uniquely suited to supporting the GalleryPlayer "art-on-demand" applications. Internap's P-NAPs connect directly to the Internet backbones of multiple carriers in major cities throughout North America, as well as Tokyo and London. The company offers a broad portfolio of advanced, multi-network solutions for IP connectivity, colocation, content distribution, managed security, and managed virtual private networks (VPNs). In addition to managed IP network solutions, Internap also offers award-winning customer-premise equipment for enterprises that wish to manage their own multi-carrier network.

About Beon Media's GalleryPlayer

GalleryPlayer is a digital home gallery service that delivers high-resolution, museum quality art and imagery to any Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Media Center Edition PC. GalleryPlayer allows you to view an ever-changing collection of imagery, transforming your display into a dynamic, radiant, digital canvas. GalleryPlayer combines the world's finest images with patent-pending digital rights management and distribution technologies. From sports to travel, from black & white vintage photography to fine art, GalleryPlayer entertains, educates, and moves its audience. For more information, visit www.GalleryPlayer.com.

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 more than 1,800 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. For more information, please visit the company website at www.internap.com.

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