AUSTIN, TEXAS—January 22, 2010—Giganews, the world’s largest and most trusted Usenet provider for more than a decade, and Data Foundry, a leading, global provider of data center outsourcing, managed data centers, and disaster recovery services, will host 2010’s first North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) meeting in support of the non-profit organization’s mission to identify and solve problems that arise in operating and growing the Internet.

The 48th NANOG meeting (NANOG48) will be held in Austin, Texas, February 21-24, 2010 at the Hilton Austin. NANOG48 marks the first time the group meets in Austin.

Senior network engineers, operators, and researchers from companies like Giganews, Google (GOOG), Equinix (EQIX), Akamai (AKAM), tw telecom (TWTC), Comcast (CMCSA/CMCSK), and many others, will present, debate, and discuss technology already deployed or soon-to-be deployed in the Internet. NANOG is a relatively small contingent of Internet insiders from Tier 1 and Tier 2 Internet service providers (ISPs), as well as others connected to ISP networking.

"Giganews’ involvement in NANOG48 is a direct extension of our absolute commitment to providing the highest level of connectivity, throughput and security for our customers," says Philip Molter, Giganews’ Chief Technology Officer. "We’ve chosen to host this meeting, because, as a major network traffic source for tens of millions of people, we want to foster the continued growth of the Internet as an open—unlimited platform."

Topics to be addressed at NANOG48 span the latest operational issues, including large-scale backbone operations; ISP coordination; traffic engineering; applications of new protocols, specifically Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6); routing policy specification; queue management and congestion; routing scalability; caching; and inter-provider security; to name a few.

"Data Foundry and Giganews—as early pioneers in the Internet space, as well as current innovators, are uniquely appropriate as hosts of discussions and debates that will greatly influence the future of the Internet," says Betty Burke, NANOG Program Manager. "Contrary to popular belief, the Internet doesn’t run itself. A lot goes on behind the scenes. It takes the generous efforts and profound insights of those closest to the technology, companies like Giganews and Data Foundry, for example, to keep this dynamic, global resource in working order."

NANOG meetings are held three times a year throughout the country. NANOG is an activity of Merit Network, a non-profit corporation owned and governed by Michigan’s public universities. Since 1966, Merit hasoperated America’s longest-running regional research and education network and has coordinated NANOG meetings since 1994.

For more information about NANOG and Merit, visit http://www.nanog.org and http://www.merit.edu. To register for NANOG48 visit https://nanog.merit.edu/registration.

About Giganews

Giganews, the world’s largest and most trusted Usenet provider for more than a decade, offers unparalleled newsgroup access through a proprietary, scalable platform designed to maximize speed and reliability. Giganews serves individuals, as well as the largest Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, and multi-service providers in more than 200 countries, making it the top Usenet aggregation point in the world. More articles pass through Giganews on a daily basis than any other provider. In addition, the Giganews Newsgroups Archive hosts more than 7 billion articles requiring several petabytes (PB) of storage. Learn more about Giganews at http://www.giganews.com.

About Data Foundry

Established in 1994, Data Foundry is a provider of Data Center Outsourcing, Managed Data Center, and Disaster Recovery services. Data Foundry owns and operates regionally dispersed, secure Data Center facilities, which provide 24×7x365 support from state-of-the-art Network Operation Centers. As a global provider of managed services, Data Foundry maintains and monitors a scalable, redundant and highly available network infrastructure. Over 1000 corporate customers across multiple business verticals, including Houston Wire and Cable (HWCC), Whataburger, and T3 Energy Services (TTES), are currently utilizing Data Foundry solutions. Learn more about Data Foundry at http://www.datafoundry.com.

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Giganews, Inc., the world’s foremost premium Usenet provider, today announced special discounts on Giganews® Usenet service for Verizon customers affected by the elimination of Usenet service. Verizon announced that on September 30, 2009, Verizon will discontinue its Usenet newsgroup service. Subscribers will not be able to access the Verizon newsgroup service after this date. Verizon customers currently connecting to Usenet groups via Verizon will have until September 30th to choose a new source of Usenet access. Giganews is offering several special pricing options to affected Verizon customers:

If you are a Verizon customer looking at Usenet Services, please sign up for a 14 day free trial of the Giganews Usenet: http://www.giganews.com/verizon-special.html.

Giganews® Usenet is a global, public social networking community that enables its members to share discussions and user generated content on an unlimited number of topics. Today, Giganews Usenet represents over 100K (and growing rapidly) multimedia Internet channels and interactive discussion which is accessed by tens of millions of people from over 180 countries.

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Giganews, Inc., the world’s foremost premium Usenet provider, today announced major service upgrades on all Usenet accounts. Members subscribing to Giganews’ premium Diamond plan will get 30 additional connections for a total of 50 simultaneous connections per account - more than any Usenet provider in the world. All other service plans have been upgraded to 20 connections per account.

Giganews members with high-latency links have requested more connections to help them wring as much speed as possible out of downloads. Giganews members with low-latency links have requested extra connections in their Usenet client for group updates and header downloads.

With this change, Giganews is ensuring that the number of connections is no longer a barrier to unlimited Usenet speed for any of our members,

said Elizabeth Kintzele, Director of Sales and Affiliate Marketing at Giganews. Kintzele added,

“As a Premium Usenet Service Provider, we constantly improve our service to ensure our members have the best Usenet experience on the planet. While increasing connections is a major improvement, in the near future we will announce a new service offering that will truly solidify our premium status.”

With current retention across binary newsgroups at 337 days and continuing to spool to 365 days, Giganews provides the longest retention in the industry. Today’s announcement increases the speed with which Giganews Usenet customers can access Usenet newsgroups.

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Giganews® Usenet is a global, public social networking community that enables its members to share discussions and user generated content on an unlimited number of topics. Today, Giganews Usenet represents over 100K (and growing rapidly) multimedia Internet channels and interactive discussions.

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Giganews, Inc., the world’s foremost premium Usenet provider, today announced the launch of their Brazilian Portuguese website. The new website brings Giganews a step closer to offering information and account management in a total of nine languages.

The Portuguese website provides extensive information about Giganews® Usenet. It also enables subscribers to sign-up and manage their Giganews Usenet accounts online. More translations will follow in 2009.

"We are extremely excited to bring Giganews Usenet to the Brazilian market. We had great success at Futurecomm and Campus Party 2009, so we know that the Brazilian people welcome better access to the powerful community of Giganews Usenet," said Elizabeth Kintzele, Director of Sales and Affiliate Marketing at Giganews. Futurecomm is the largest Telecommunications and Information Technology conference in Latin America. Campus Party is an annual, week-long high-speed Internet party for students, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Giganews Usenet is a global, public social networking community that enables its members to share discussions and user generated content on an unlimited number of topics. Today, Giganews Usenet represents over 100K (and growing rapidly) multimedia Internet channels and interactive discussions. On a daily basis Usenet members upload over 5TB of new discussions and user generated content, which is accessed by tens of millions of people from over 180 countries.

Giganews is a trademark of Giganews, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners