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Internap Network Services Corporation (AMEX:IIP), a leading provider of performance-based routing solutions over the Internet, today announced it will triple service capacity of its Performance IP(TM) service to Trumba, creator of Trumba Calendar, a dynamic website calendaring tool that helps companies promote and share event information and connect with their customers. Internap improves the performance and availability of Trumba's unique application which helps businesses and their customers interact with the calendar in ways that have not been previously possible with traditional website calendars. Trumba joins a list of emerging businesses leveraging Internap(R) Performance IP services to manage and optimize rapidly growing traffic volume. Website calendaring is emerging as a powerful new media application that allows organizations to maximize their investment in promoting events and more effectively communicate with their customers. A wide range of organizations, from non-profits and small businesses to industry associations and large enterprises rely on Trumba to bring the event and calendar section of their site to life with minimal IT resources. The Trumba calendar, which synchronizes with other mainstream calendar applications such as Microsoft Outlook, MSN Calendar and Yahoo! Calendar, offers increased flexibility for geographically dispersed organizations through quick and easy access, personalized communications, and real-time content updated without the need for a technical expert. Trumba calendar users and subscribers can directly add events to personal calendars, forward event information to friends, set up reminders by email and SMS messaging, subscribe to calendars, receive RSS feeds, or RSVP for events, for instance. "Internap's 100% uptime guarantee and robust colocation services are critical to the availability, reliability and performance of Trumba's calendaring service," said Jerry Rinaldi, web operations manager, Trumba. "Users and subscribers benefit from rapid page delivery and are routed to our site through the fastest Internet connection available, regardless of their geographic location. This drives continued adoption and encourages them to use the service more often, both of which have a direct impact on our revenues." "At Internap we recognize that start-ups delivering new generation media applications require the highest level of performance for their growing IP needs," said David Abrahamson, vice president of sales, Internap. "Trumba's ability to offer predictable, optimized and timely online content delivery count among the many benefits provided by our world-class Performance IP service." Internap(R) Performance IP(TM) Delivered as a managed service, Internap's Performance IP technology ensures optimal application performance through improved Internet network efficiency and traffic control. Rather than provisioning traditional single ISP network access, the Performance IP service routes data across up to eight integrated Network Service Provider networks in its Private Network Access Points (P-NAPs), insulating traffic from the risk of network outages and providing reliable, stable and predictable connectivity. Performance IP also includes intelligent route-control technology to dynamically identify optimal paths for business-critical applications without the need for manual intervention, and is supported by a proactive industry-leading Service Level Agreement (SLA) with 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 direct access to certified network engineers. For more information on high performance IP services visit http://www.internap.com/product/technology/performanceip/page1525.html About Internap Internap is a market leader of intelligent route control solutions that bring reliability, performance and security to the Internet. The company's patented and patent-pending technologies address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of the benefits of deploying business-critical applications such as e-commerce, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), video-conferencing and streaming audio/video across the Internet. Through a portfolio of high-performance IP and WAN optimization solutions, customers can bypass congestion points, overcome routing inefficiencies and optimize performance of their applications. Internap solutions are backed by an industry-leading performance guarantee that covers the Internet as opposed to just one network. These offerings include: network- and premise-based route optimization solutions, colocation, VPN, content distribution and managed security services. Internap currently serves more than 2,100 customers, including Fortune 1000 and mid-tier enterprises in the financial services, government, travel/hospitality, manufacturing, media/entertainment, technology and retail industries. The company provides services throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more information, please visit the company website at www.internap.com. Internap and Performance IP are trademarks of Internap. All other trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.