Advanced Radio Telecom to Deploy Broadband Wireless Internet Protocol Networks in 10 Markets in 2000
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2000--Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (ART) (Nasdaq:ARTT), the first broadband Internet Protocol service provider (IPSP), announced today that it will build high-speed, IP metropolitan area networks in 10 markets in 2000 including Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Calif., Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington D.C.
ART offers 100Mbps Internet access service to businesses in San Jose, Calif., and plans to deploy its broadband wireless metropolitan area IP network to provide IP services to Internet service providers (ISP), interexchange carriers (IXC), on-site service providers (OSP) and application service providers (ASP).
''ART is the nation's first broadband IPSP to offer existing ISPs, OSPs and carriers a cost-effective, carrier-class, very high speed metropolitan area access solution,'' said Robert McCambridge, president and COO of ART. ''ART's pure-IP, broadband networks open up the bottleneck in the last mile by providing a 100 Mbps link between businesses' high speed LANs and the lightening-speed WANs that transverse the United States.''
''As our strategic partner, ART's broadband metropolitan area networks are part of Qwest's local broadband access strategy that allow us to extend our high-speed Internet network to the end user,'' said Augie Cruciotti, Qwest's senior vice president of Qwestlink. ''Using ART's local network, we plan to provide mid-size businesses with up to 100 Mbps of high-speed access to support the use of broadband applications and services.''
With plans to roll out a total of 40 markets over the next few years, ART plans to manage its national footprint from regional centers in Los Angeles (Western region), Washington D.C. (Northeastern region), Houston (Southern region), and its headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. (Northwestern region).
ART's metropolitan area broadband network features Ethernet routing and switching products supplied by Cisco Systems Inc., along with broadband wireless radios configured in a self-healing ring architecture. The rings link commercial office buildings together creating a fully redundant network capable of providing 200Mbps of total bandwidth on its bi-directional paths. As a Cisco Powered Network(TM) service provider, ART has worked very closely with Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, in designing and implementing this unprecedented network infrastructure. ART has selected Wireless Facilities Inc. (WFI) as its preferred vendor for outsourcing services in support of its network deployment.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Vice President of Equity Research, Peter Kennedy, said, ''ART, in our view, is operating in one of the fastest growing segments of the communications market -- providing broadband local connectivity. While less then 40 percent of the on-line business subscribers have broadband connectivity today, by 2002 we expect the number of on-line subscribers will more than double led by a surge in demand for high-speed access. For example, we estimate that by 2002 more than 70 percent of businesses will access the Internet through some form of broadband connectivity. Based on our forecasts, broadband access will nearly double from a $22B market in 1999 to a $42B market in 2002, and in our view fixed wireless should take a meaningful portion of this growth.''
About Advanced Radio Telecom
Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is a provider of local Internet Protocol (IP) services at speeds up to 100Mbps. ART currently owns and operates broadband wireless metropolitan area networks in San Jose, Seattle, Portland, and Phoenix. ART has a strategic relationship with Qwest Communications International Inc., which includes Qwest Private Line, ART Broadband Services, Co-marketing and Co-location agreements. ART investors include Qwest and a number of high tech investment funds including Oak Investment Partners, MeriTech Capital Partners, Accel Partners, Brentwood Venture Capital, Worldview Technology Partners, Columbia Capital, Advent International, GE Equity, KPN, Sonera, Bessemer Venture Capital, and Adams Capital Management. ART has a nationwide footprint of 38GHz spectrum licenses in the United States, and owns 26GHz and/or 38GHz spectrum licenses in the United Kingdom and several Scandinavian countries. For more information, please visit ART's web site at art-net.net.
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