For Immediate Release: Tucson Interconnect Reaches New Milestone Wednesday, May 1st, 1996 08:00AM EST Contact: Ehud Gavron, ACES Research, +1 520 322 6500 ext 5 Fax: +1 520 322 9755 TUCSON, AZ -- Another group of Internet Service Providers have teamed up to avoid network congestion. While other providers fill up the clogged arteries of the national backbones, ACES Research, Tucson's High-Speed provider has created a local point where Tucson-serving providers can communicate with each other. ACES is happy to welcome Primenet and Internet Direct to the Interconnect. They join StarNet, RTD, The River, Opus One, Zekes (Safford), and El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Mexico). The Tucson Interconnect avoids and prevents Internet network slowdown by keeping local communication traffic in town, and utilizing the national backbones for external traffic. "We don't waste bandwidth, " explained Matt Ramsey, ACES Network Manager, "this way if we need to send packets to Primenet, or Internet Direct, we send them directly. Not through Sprint, or MCI, any other crowded part of the Internet backbones. Packets from one side of Tucson to the other don't go through California, Texas, or Colorado." "The addition of Primenet and Internet Direct to our interconnect allows all of Southern Arizona traffic to stay in Southern Arizona," said Ehud Gavron, Senior Partner of ACES Research. "All the big providers except the University are now exchanging packets here." The Tucson Interconnect is a local interconnect offering high-speed access to Internet Service Providers serving the Tucson area. It is located at 4003 East Speedway, Suite 123, Tucson Arizona, 85712. Connection is via point-to- point circuits or PSDNs.