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Internap Enhances Content Delivery Network Services with Digital Rights Platform from BuyDRM

Business Wire, Dec 7, 2007

-- Alliance Enables Rich Media Delivery Customers to More Effectively Monetize Digital Audio and Video Content --

ATLANTA -- Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, today announced the integration of BuyDRM's KeyOS Pay Media Platform into Internap's content delivery network (CDN) services. Enhancing the robust features of Internap's rich media delivery solutions, BuyDRM's technology will provide customers of Microsoft Windows Media with greater Web content marketing and monetization tools while powering live and on-demand rich media streaming and downloads.

Internap's CDN features MediaConsole[R], a workflow management toolset that supports streaming formats such as Flash and Windows Media and includes a media manager, pre-built video skins and a real-time reporting dashboard. Through the BuyDRM integration, MediaConsole will feature support for pay-per-view, subscription-based, token, ad-supported, marketing and silent monitoring business models and will be compatible with most payment gateways and shopping carts. In addition, the MediaConsole will boast a simple, push-button user-interface for content management and transactional analysis and includes sophisticated data encryption applications.

"The alliance between Internap's world-class rich-media delivery services and BuyDRM's KeyOS Pay Media Platform brings unparalleled media delivery and business solutions to the market," said Christopher Levy, chief executive officer of BuyDRM. "These solutions are focused squarely on the exploding new media market, offering customers a seamless digital media experience."

"Internap's integration with BuyDRM KeyOS platform proves its dedication to Silverlight and providing superior digital media solutions," said Tom Honeybone, senior director, Silverlight business development at Microsoft Corp. "Together we can ensure our customers have the most advanced technology to deliver rich interactive solutions on the Web."

Through Internap and BuyDRM's support of Silverlight, the MediaConsole features compatibility with the Silverlight PlayReady DRM component and the player's cross-platform functionality. As a result, Internap customers are empowered with a suite of the most advanced technology solutions that will continue to be on the forefront of the market for online streaming media.

"Content owners and applications managers need comprehensive workflow management tools and business intelligence systems to maximize the value of their content and the performance of their applications," said Philip N. Kaplan, chief strategy officer for Internap. "The integration of our suite of IP and rich media networking services with BuyDRM's software platform enables Internap to meet this demand and provide our customers with a competitive edge."

About BuyDRM

BuyDRM was created in 2001 to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding pay media industry. Our flagship product, KeyOS, is offered as both a service and a solution and represents nearly six years of research and development in deploying commercial Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. Today, the company is the preeminent provider of Microsoft-based DRM technology and a featured Microsoft partner with customers in the entertainment, enterprise and education industries. Founder Christopher Levy is one of a handful of pioneers in the streaming media industry and the only Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Digital Media with a focus on DRM.

About Internap

Internap is a leading Internet solutions company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience[TM] by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services, a content delivery network (CDN) and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to innovate their business and create new revenue opportunities. More than 3,500 companies across the globe trust Internap to help them achieve their Internet business goals. For more information, visit www.internap.com.

Internap "Safe Harbor" Statement

Certain information included in this press release constitutes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, including, among others, statements regarding the performance of our products, business strategy, projected levels of growth and projected costs, are forward-looking statements. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Internap and members of our management team, as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking statements. Other important factors that may affect Internap's business, products, results of operations and financial condition include, but are not limited to: our ability to sustain profitability; our ability to respond successfully to technological change; the availability of services from Internet network service providers or network service providers providing network access loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all; failure of third party suppliers to deliver their products and services on favorable terms, or at all; failures in our network operations centers, network access points or computer systems; and our ability to protect our intellectual property.

 

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