LITTLETON, Colo. -- Time Warner Telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC), a leading provider of metro and regional optical broadband networks and services to business customers, today unveiled its "Metro Ethernet Services -- Tomorrow's Network Today" strategy with new metro Ethernet products for large, medium and small business customers. These very high-speed, flexible metro Ethernet solutions that Time Warner Telecom calls Native LAN services, are designed to deliver customers up to 100 times faster connection speeds at lower prices than traditional networks can offer. Extremely reliable and secure, Time Warner Telecom's Native LAN products represent one of the most comprehensive suites of Ethernet services available in the industry. Time Warner Telecom's Native LAN services are available from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, with plans to expand up to 10 Gpbs. "Time Warner Telecom continues to meet our demands for bandwidth, quality, and price performance," said Mike Serozi, Director - Network Services and IT Security, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. "Their new Native LAN service has allowed us to successfully consolidate our data, Voice over IP, and video networking needs into one metropolitan network serving all of our key facilities." "Our Native LAN products are available to all businesses in a wide variety of industry applications, including Internet access and storage transport," said Mike Rouleau, Senior Vice President - Marketing and Business Development for Time Warner Telecom. "Our metro Ethernet services are already serving more than a hundred customers throughout the country and are now available to over 3,500 buildings in 44 U.S. metropolitan areas in 22 states over our own local fiber optic networks. In addition, we can deliver service to customers in thousands of buildings near our local networks." Metro Ethernet services provide unique benefits to businesses in search of greater value, affordable Internet and data connections, easy upgrades for scalability and simple customer management of proven Ethernet technology. Many older technologies like ISDN, Frame Relay and DSL only talked about these benefits that Time Warner Telecom's Native LAN metro Ethernet delivers. Time Warner Telecom Inc.