Houston Area Covered for Business Contingencies NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AboveNet, Inc, a premier metro network provider of custom fiber connectivity solutions, today announced the Houston kickoff of their collaboration with Westlin Corp. for business continuity solutions. AboveNet's extensive Houston metro fiber network has been extended to provide enterprise customers with both protected private and shared optical network services to Westlin's Disaster Recovery Data Center located in Montgomery, Texas. AboveNet and Westlin are collaborating to provide synchronous and high capacity asynchronous storage connectivity to ensure reliably consistent levels of data protection at Westlin's underground Disaster Recovery Data Center. Easy access and seamless connectivity highlight the low latency solution enabling aggressive Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) for mission critical data. Options such as remote backup, active clustering, redundancy, and resiliency help solve compliance issues with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes Oaxley and HIPPA. AboveNet is providing OC-n level SONET services as well as Fast Ethernet and Gig Ethernet capabilities. AboveNet is connected to the top 14 metro areas in the U.S. with 1.5 million fiber miles of metro access and is a Tier1 Internet provider. "Surviving today's plethora of unpredictable business conditions, both natural and man made, demands exact planning and execution of business continuity processes," said MaryBeth Nance, Director of Business Development for AboveNet. "For Houston area businesses the choice is now easy." For more information contact AboveNet Houston at (713) 344-2142 or Westlin's DR hotline at (281) 404-2224 About AboveNet, Inc. AboveNet, Inc. provides fiber connectivity solutions for businesses. Its private optical network, delivers key network and IP services in and between 14 top U.S. metro markets and London. AboveNet's network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, where the majority of top investment banks and five of the top 10 U.S. banks rely on AboveNet for mission critical services. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause or contribute to such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, and various other factors beyond the Company's control. This also includes such factors as are described from time to time in the SEC reports filed by AboveNet, Inc. including the most recently filed Forms S-3 and 8-K. About Westlin Corporation Based in Houston, Texas, Westlin Corporation (Pink Sheets: WSTN) is an Internet technology company engaged in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity business lines. Its operation, located in a former Nuclear Fallout Shelter, provides one of the most secure environments for on-line and near-line data storage, safe from natural disasters and terrorist acts. The Westlin Corp's web site is http://www.westlin.com/ DATASOURCE: AboveNet, Inc. CONTACT: Rick Battle of AboveNet, +1-571-633-5122, or Web site: http://www.above.net/ http://www.westlin.com/

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