Posted: 02/2001
IN BOX
XO Boosts GigE Story
I appreciated Khali Henderson's December article, "Wholesale Metro IP Gets Gig E Boost" and wanted to inform you of XO Communications' Gigabit Ethernet services.
Targeted to improve bandwidth delivery, XO is in a unique position to quickly become the leader in Ethernet services.
Designed to connect customers' local area networks within a metropolitan area, XO's suite of Ethernet services leverages the company's extensive metro-fiber assets currently spanning more than 430,000 metro-fiber miles in the United States.
The result is data transmitted at speeds up to 1Gps - never before possible.
Dan Kalin
Project Manager Gigabit Ethernet Service
XO Communications
Yipes! Story Overlooks Pioneer
I came a bit belatedly upon your December cover story, "Wholesale Metro IP Gets 'GigE-boost'," but was surprised to see no mention in it of our company, Yipes Communications.
Yipes is, by all accounts, the pioneer in the field of delivering GigE-based IP services over fiber. As Scott Clavenna wrote in a recent paper for LightReading, "Yipes got this market started and put a brand on the concept of metro Ethernet services." We offer service to both wholesale and retail customers.
In contrast to the main company profiled in the story, IP Networks, Yipes has 15,000 miles of lit fiber, not 50; and we have 20 markets in service across the country, not simply plans to start service next spring. We also have many more announced customers than Telseon, the other major service provider recognized in the piece
I hope you'll take a minute to check out what many customers and industry analysts have said about us. If you browse our many press releases regarding customers, markets, funding and partnerships, I think you'll be impressed by our leadership in this important new market.
Jonathan Marshall
Senior Director of Public Relations
Yipes Communications Inc.
www.yipes.com
