February 12, 2002 -- GiantLoop Network, a provider of data movement solutions, announced that it has formed an alliance with Williams Communications, a leading broadband network services provider for bandwidth-centric customers, that will enable both companies to deliver new, high-value services to their respective customer bases.

Through this alliance, GiantLoop will benefit from access to Williams Communications' comprehensive suite of services including end-to-end private line, IP, collocation and Network Managed Services. These services focus on the growing metro access market and enable customers to accelerate metropolitan-area networks by breaking open the last-mile bottleneck. Williams Communications operates one of the nation's largest fiber-optic networks and provides on-net metropolitan access services in 20 of the largest U.S. cities with the ability to provide services in all major U.S. markets via strategic alliances with other providers.

GiantLoop Network will draw on Williams Communications' extensive network assets and support services to deliver data movement solutions to enterprise customers. In turn, Williams Communications will leverage GiantLoop's proprietary Network Control Services platform and professional services expertise in data and storage networking.

GiantLoop will use the Williams Communications network to provide the physical infrastructure that GiantLoop customers -- large businesses in data-intensive industries such as financial services, healthcare, and media -- need to move mission-critical data between multiple data centers and other corporate locations. GiantLoop will continue to provide these customers with a broad range of infrastructure assessment, design, testing, implementation, and management services. For enterprise customers, the agreement between GiantLoop and Williams Communications means a new facilities-based option for redundant network infrastructures physically separate from existing private or public networks, a "must-have" requirement for fail-safe business continuity planning.

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