FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MZIMA NETWORKS EXPANDS ITS HIGH PERFORMANCE, GLOBAL IP NETWORK TO SIX CRG WEST DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE U.S.

DENVER, CO – October 20, 2008 – CRG West and Mzima Networks are pleased to announce the expansion of Mzima’s next-generation, IP Network to six CRG West data centers across the United States. By deploying new network Points of Presence in CRG West Facilities, Mzima’s global footprint now has further reach and redundancy into Chicago, New York, Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles.

Mzima Networks offers a unique combination of route-optimized transit and private peering, which translates to a high-quality low-cost alternative to traditional Tier 1 service providers and multi-homed networks. The Mzima backbone network is built for performance, allowing customer traffic to reach end-users quickly and effectively. Mzima utilizes a fully-redundant architecture at every layer of its network and focuses on providing service to content and enterprise customers requiring the highest levels of performance.

CRG West data centers provide a perfect environment for Mzima’s business model, as the Any2 Exchange Internet peering community is one of the fastest growing Internet exchanges in the United States, offering easy and affordable interconnection to more than 500 of the world’s leading networks, enterprises and universities. With CRG West’s data centers delivering an ideal combination of connectivity, power and security, companies like Mzima are taking advantage of one of the highest value colocation and data center offerings in the industry.

“CRG West is an ideal partner and data center environment for Mzima,” said Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima. “Their facilities are state-of-the-art and offer the quality and security our network demands. With this latest expansion in CRG West facilities, Mzima’s services are now available in 36 carrier-neutral facilities in North America and Europe, with six more expected to come online soon. Mzima is committed to growing our network reach and to delivering our next generation, high performance services. We look forward to working with CRG West who is committed to the same level of customer service, security and network performance as Mzima.”

Mzima has been a long-time customer and we are pleased that they are expanding with us across our national footprint,” commented David W. Dunn, Senior Vice President at CRG West. “We look forward to having Mzima grow with us and peer on Any2 to offer more bandwidth options for our content and enterprise customers.”

About Mzima Networks

Mzima Networks, founded in 2002, is the world’s leading high-performance network service provider. Mzima delivers Internet bandwidth via its proprietary NetAlive network architecture and wide-area backbone network, and specializes in high-bandwidth applications by leveraging native 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies. By building metropolitan optical rings connected to multiple Tier-1 backbone providers coupled with extensive private peering with numerous broadband ISPs and content providers, Mzima Networks offers its customers the fastest, most reliable connectivity currently available. For more information please visit: http://www.mzima.net/

About CRG West

CRG West is a leading developer, manager and operator of world-class data centers. Established in 2001, CRG West provides wholesale data center and retail colocation space, connectivity services, remote hands support and an Internet peering exchange, the Any2 Exchange. Now with eleven data center locations, The Company manages carrier-neutral data centers in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Northern Virginia, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Washington D.C. CRG West provides data center and peering opportunities to Fortune 500 companies and over 500 of the world’s leading networks, enterprises and universities. Visit www.crgwest.com for additional information.

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