Article: Verio Combines National Backbone, Local Internet Providers to Launch Nation's Newest Internet Service Network

With $80 million in venture capital backing, Verio creates the only national

Internet provider that's local, combining local Internet providers and new

tier-one backbone to serve small and mid-sized business, institutions.

DENVER, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Verio Inc., founded in 1996 as World-Net Access, today launched the nation's newest Internet network, combining the strength of a high-speed, tier-one national backbone with the service of prominent local and regional Internet service providers in major markets across the country.

Verio has so far received $80 million in private financing to build its national backbone and to buy ...

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