ENRON EXTENDS INTELLIGENT NETWORK IN CANADA WITH BCE NEXXIA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, April 10, 2000
HOUSTON -- Enron Broadband Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. and a leader in the delivery of high-bandwidth application services, has entered into an alliance with BCE Nexxia, a member of the Bell Canada group of companies.
Together, Enron and BCE Nexxia will extend Enron's Intelligent Network (EIN) across Canada, reaching the six largest metropolitan areas in the next 60 days. This will enable a new breed of application services which deliver rich media such as live, streaming video at high speeds to business and residential customers.
BCE Nexxia will provide Enron with the connectivity, co-location space and equipment necessary to extend Enron's network from the United States to Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton and Calgary. By connecting these six cities, Enron's network will reach 70% of Canada's metropolitan population.
"The agreement with BCE Nexxia extends Enron's network further around the globe," said Joe Hirko, president and CEO of Enron Broadband Services. "BCE Nexxia's extensive coast-to-coast network will allow us to quickly penetrate the Canadian market and bring their customers a new, high-bandwidth Internet experience."
The Enron Intelligent Network provides full-screen TV-quality viewing - a 50-fold improvement over the public Internet.
"Enron's advanced broadband network and applications, in combination with BCE Nexxia's state of the art IP-Broadband network, is taking the Internet to a new level in Canada. By enriching the Web with TV quality content, Enron and BCE Nexxia are making available a new range of business applications that will enhance the Internet experience for the end user," said Derek Rickaby, Assistant Vice President, US & International Wholesale Markets, BCE Nexxia.
Enron is one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas and communications companies. The company, which owns approximately $33 billion in energy and communications assets, produces electricity and natural gas, develops, constructs and operates energy facilities worldwide, delivers physical commodities and financial and risk management services to customers around the world and is developing a nationwide Internet-based communications network. Enron's Internet address is www.enron.com. The stock is traded under the ticker symbol, "ENE."
About the Enron Intelligent Network™
The Enron Intelligent Network is uniquely based on a distributed server architecture, a pure Internet Protocol strategy, Enron's global fiber and satellite distribution, and the embedded software intelligence, called the Enron Broadband Operating System (BOS). The EIN and Enron's BOS enable a whole new breed of application services, called ePowered™ Services, which transport rich media and live, streaming video faster than using the public Internet.
About Enron Broadband Services
Enron Broadband Services is a leading provider of high quality, broadband Internet content and applications. The company's business model combines the power of the Enron Intelligent Network, Enron's Broadband Operating System, bandwidth trading and intermediation services, and high-bandwidth applications, to fundamentally improve the experience and functionality of the Internet. Enron introduces its Broadband Operating System to allow application developers to dynamically provision bandwidth on demand for the end-to-end quality of service necessary to deliver broadband content. Enron has also created a market for bandwidth that will allow network providers to scale to meet the demands that increasingly complex applications require.
About BCE Nexxia
As a member of Bell Canada, BCE Nexxia is a leader in providing innovative communications solutions to large enterprise customers across Canada and the United States. Leveraging a state-of-the-art IP/Broadband network, the strength and expertise of the BCE (NYSE/TSE: BCE) group of companies and strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Nortel Networks (NYSE/TSE: NT) and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), BCE Nexxia provides its customers with cost-effective next-generation services they need to compete in the global marketplace. BCE Nexxia's Internet Web site is located at www.bcenexxia.com.
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For additional information please contact:
Claudia Johnson
503-886-0666
Claudia_Johnson@enron.net
Don Hogarth
BCE Nexxia
416-581-3311
donald.hogarth@bell.ca
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