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11.06.2001 - Synergy Networks Reports Email Traffic Increases Since Sept. 11

NAPLES, FL (Nov. 6, 2001) - Synergy Networks, a regionally based Internet service provider, reports that Internet traffic has significantly increased since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

"With over 1,000 business customers, we have seen a 25 percent increase in e-mail messaging and bandwidth utilization since September 11," said Peter Seif, president of Synergy Networks "We expect that number to continue to increase as businesses rely more heavily on the Internet for basic communications."

According to Seif, the significance of increased Internet traffic means businesses need to review their bandwidth capacity to handle the increase, as many of Synergy's clients have already done.

"As a result of Sept. 11, we have doubled our backbone capacity directly benefiting our clients," he said. "Once again, the focus has turned back toward the Internet and changed the scope of business being done through the Net."

Seif said hits to online news sites each day the week after Sept. 11 almost doubled compared to the week before the attacks.

"Even local sites like NBC2.com and ABC7.com, whose servers we host, saw a 40% increase in their traffic," he said. " Luckily, they already had the bandwidth capacity to handle the increase and didn't experience any major problems like some national news agencies including CNN experienced."

"As we learned of other news sites experiencing delays and access problems following Sept. 11, we were naturally concerned about our viewers and how our sites were operating," said Keith Norman, New Media Director for Waterman Broadcasting. "Needless to say, we were very glad we had been proactive and prepared for just such an event and didn't end up loosing viewers to another site because of access problems with ours."

Seif added that Synergy Networks has further expanded their capacity by having a redundant fiber route built into their building. This will make Synergy one of a hand full of companies in South Florida with two separate redundant fiber routes. This second fiber route will be in place by December.

Synergy Networks is a leader in business-class Internet solutions and is one of Florida's fastest growing Internet service providers. The company provides Broadband Internet access, web hosting, web design and e-commerce solutions.

Synergy Networks is regionally based in Southwest Florida, with offices in Fort Myers, Melbourne and Sarasota. Synergy Networks is also in the process of expanding to locations in the northeast and central areas of the state, as well as the southeastern United States.

CONTACT: Peter Seif at 790-7007 or Melinda Isley at (941) 274-7736