MFN Gets Real

NEW YORK -- Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (MFN) (Nasdaq: MFNX), the leading provider of digital communications infrastructure solutions, will provide metropolitan fiber to RealNetworks(R), Inc., supporting the Company's real.com and realnetworks.com Web sites. Under the multi-year agreement, MFN will lease fiber to RealNetworks, providing a bandwidth solution that will satisfy its current and future communications needs. MFN's unshared, unmetered and virtually unlimited bandwidth provides a fully scalable infrastructure for RealNetworks. Featuring the fastest transmission speeds and the highest levels of reliability and security, MFN's bandwidth solutions enable customers such as RealNetworks to launch the latest generation of bandwidth-intensive applications. "RealNetworks has worked with MFN for years, and we are pleased to continue our relationship. As RealNetworks continues to deliver the very best digital media from any platform, in any format, to any IP device, it is critical that we have the internal infrastructure to support this effort," said Mark Vickers, Network Infrastructure Manager, RealNetworks. "Under our new agreement with MFN, we have increased our previous bandwidth capacity."Metromedia Fiber Network Inc.(MFN)