Virgin Chooses Highwinds

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Highwinds Network Group, Inc., a multi-platform IP services and content distribution provider, today announced that its RollingThunder(TM) content delivery network has been selected by Virgin Media Inc., as the CDN infrastructure for Virgin Media's newly enhanced and expanded newsgroup service. Under an IP infrastructure hosting agreement, UK-based Virgin Media will tap the high-performance worldwide Highwinds CDN to provide lightning-fast, anytime anywhere access to its newsgroup forums covering thousands of topics.

Leveraging Virgin Media's dedicated high-speed link connecting to the Highwinds CDN, Internet users will be able to take advantage of important new features available in the Virgin newsgroup service. These include extended 90- day retention of text articles and 7-day minimum retention of binaries, as well as a full news feed covering thousands of groups.

Virgin Media's revamped newsgroup service will be available Spring 2008."We're delighted to be working with Highwinds to build out our newsgroup service. Our expanded access to newsgroups will give our customers a free news feed to newsgroups with exceptional retention, providing one of the best free newsgroup services in the UK," said Alex Brown, senior product manager at Virgin Media.

Highwinds Network Group Inc.