PALO ALTO, California, April 14, 2003

The world's fastest-growing Metropolitan Gigabit Ethernet Service Provider, Neopolitan Networks, today announced their participation in the MiamiNAP located inside LayerOne, a leading carrier-neutral Internet exchange. Participating with LayerOne adds significant value to Neopolitan's offering-the ability to provide enterprise customers with the fastest connectivity, highest throughput and lowest latency. Using Neopolitan's True-Broadband fiber optic network, businesses can access the MiamiNAP's peering fabric and easily extend multiple Internet backbones directly to their enterprises.

"By extending our fiber optic network to LayerOne, we have created a higher point of presence in the Miami area, strengthening Neopolitan service offering," said Frank R. Robles CEO of Neopolitan Networks. "In addition to making LayerOne's peering fabric more robust, our participation in MiamiNAP extends value thoughout the Neopolitan Network."

"Neopolitan's connectivity to the MiamiNAP's participant base opens up new opportunities for our customers to peer with additional network providers," said Brandon Freeman CEO of LayerOne. "From a business perspective, we're thrilled to be working with one of the fastest growing Metropolitan Gigabit Ethernet Service Providers."

By weaving together disparate networks the MiamiNAP and LayerOne have become a cornerstone of the Internet. The peering fabric that is appreciated and traveled by millions of users would not exist without key Internet exchange points that allow networks to interconnect. Neopolitan broadens the reach of LayerOne's architecturally-optimized MiamiNAP, creating a powerful network solution that combines enormous bandwidth, high performance and IT cost containment.

The MiamiNAP was founded by former MFS employees in the late 1990's and was purchased by LayerOne in early 2000 as part of its nationwide expansion. The MiamiNAP is located within a carrier-class facility designed to house mission-critical networks, setting the industry standard for security, functionality and technical integrity. For more information about the MiamiNAP please visit our website at www.layerone.com.

LayerOne is a privately held company that provides infrastructure solutions to communications service providers, enterprises and Internet-based businesses. The company operates neutral interconnection facilities that offer telecommunications service providers a fast, cost-effective solution to network interconnection and peering. LayerOne Exchanges create market concentrations of teledensity where multiple long-haul carriers, dark fiber providers and metro head-end networks physically converge. Network access availability can be instantly determined through LayerOne's innovative CoInside Provisioning Database that tracks available capacity and interface types in each LayerOne Exchange. To learn more about LayerOne, visit our web site at www.layerone.com.

As the leading Ethernet Network Solutions Provider, Neopolitan Networks, Inc. delivers the highest performing and most cost-effective WAN and MAN communications services regionally, nationally and internationally. All these services are built upon Neopolitan's innovative architecture and complemented by a host of unique management software tools. This end-to-end Layer2 Ethernet approach allows companies to minimize set-up time and expenses. It also maximizes network flexibility and scalability-setting a new standard for performance. Neopolitan Networks is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. To learn more about our service offerings, please visit us at: www.neopolitan.com.

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