Broadwing Communications Launches Usage-Based Billing for Converged MPLS Services

  
    
  
  
    
      Broadwing Communications, LLC, a consolidated subsidiary of Broadwing 
      Corporation (NASDAQ:BWNG), today announced that it is delivering a 
      converged services platform enhancement that will enable real 
      pay-for-use metered billing to customers. Metered billing extends 
      Broadwing’s commitment to data networking 
      simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency. The solution is ideally suited 
      for customers with cyclical traffic patterns, business continuity 
      requirements or transactional accounting needs. The service will be 
      generally available in November of this year.
    
    
      Different from burstable service options that charge for an enterprise’s 
      traffic "high-water mark," Broadwing metered billing is based on the 
      actual amount of data delivered across the network - a true pay-for-use 
      utility. The result is a converged MPLS VPN platform that supports 
      on-demand, liquid bandwidth.
    
    
      "Broadwing's Converged Service Network was industry-leading when they 
      launched it, and it remains unique today with the telecom utility 
      concept,” said Stan Hubbard, senior analyst 
      with Heavy Reading. “The new metered billing 
      option is another example of Broadwing directly addressing customer 
      requirements differently than other service providers."
    
    
      Currently customers with disaster recovery, intermittent or seasonal 
      needs must either pay based on a complicated formula to approximate 
      sustained usage levels or manually adjust their port bandwidth 
      allocations. With Broadwing’s new metered 
      billing option, customers are able to “set and 
      forget” their port configurations and simply 
      run their network traffic as their business environment dictates.
    
    
      The new option is ideally suited for professional services organizations 
      with periodic reporting requirements, transaction-based service 
      companies, and businesses with backup network requirements for natural 
      disaster, pandemic, or other major service disruptions.
    
    
      "Metered billing and Broadwing’s vision 
      of true telecom utility are a natural fit for today's enterprise needs,” 
      said Jamey Heinze, Broadwing’s senior director 
      of data product management. “We know that our 
      customers deal with rapidly changing business environments and this is 
      one more way we can help them.”
    
    
      Isolated from the Public Internet to increase security, the Broadwing 
      Converged Network provides Broadwing customers with the flexibility to 
      plug their applications into a single platform using existing last-mile 
      technology – whether that is Ethernet, frame 
      relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), private line or digital 
      subscriber line (DSL). Once Broadwing customers plug into the Converged 
      Network, they can choose to support their communications services using 
      either a Layer 2 Virtual Private LAN (VPLS) or a Layer 3 IP 
      Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN – or 
      both – depending on their individual 
      security, application and control requirements.
    
    
      About Broadwing Corporation
    
    
      Broadwing Corporation (NASDAQ:BWNG), through its consolidated subsidiary 
      Broadwing Communications, LLC (Broadwing) delivers innovative data, 
      voice, and media solutions to enterprises and service providers. Enabled 
      by its leading-edge optical network and award-winning products and 
      services, Broadwing Communications provides communications solutions 
      with unparalleled customer focus and speed. For more information, visit www.broadwing.com.
    
    
      Broadwing and its logo are trademarks and/or service marks of 
      Broadwing Communications, LLC, and/or Broadwing Corporation. All 
      trademarks and service marks not belonging to Broadwing are the property 
      of their respective owners.
    
    
      Investor Note Regarding 
      Forward-Looking Statements
    
    
      Statements in this press release regarding Broadwing Corporation 
      and/or Broadwing Communications, LLC (collectively “Broadwing”), 
      that are not statements of historical fact may include forward-looking 
      statements, and statements regarding Broadwing’s 
      beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are 
      forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the 
      Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities 
      Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements 
      are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private 
      Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Broadwing's actual results 
      could differ materially from these statements.
    
  
Broadwing Communications, LLC, a consolidated subsidiary of
Broadwing Corporation (NASDAQ:BWNG), today announced that it is
delivering a converged services platform enhancement that will enable
real pay-for-use metered billing to customers. Metered billing extends
Broadwing's commitment to data networking simplicity, flexibility, and
efficiency. The solution is ideally suited for customers with cyclical
traffic patterns, business continuity requirements or transactional
accounting needs. The service will be generally available in November
of this year.

   Different from burstable service options that charge for an
enterprise's traffic "high-water mark," Broadwing metered billing is
based on the actual amount of data delivered across the network - a
true pay-for-use utility. The result is a converged MPLS VPN platform
that supports on-demand, liquid bandwidth.

   "Broadwing's Converged Service Network was industry-leading when
they launched it, and it remains unique today with the telecom utility
concept," said Stan Hubbard, senior analyst with Heavy Reading. "The
new metered billing option is another example of Broadwing directly
addressing customer requirements differently than other service
providers."

   Currently customers with disaster recovery, intermittent or
seasonal needs must either pay based on a complicated formula to
approximate sustained usage levels or manually adjust their port
bandwidth allocations. With Broadwing's new metered billing option,
customers are able to "set and forget" their port configurations and
simply run their network traffic as their business environment
dictates.

   The new option is ideally suited for professional services
organizations with periodic reporting requirements, transaction-based
service companies, and businesses with backup network requirements for
natural disaster, pandemic, or other major service disruptions.

   "Metered billing and Broadwing's vision of true telecom utility
are a natural fit for today's enterprise needs," said Jamey Heinze,
Broadwing's senior director of data product management. "We know that
our customers deal with rapidly changing business environments and
this is one more way we can help them."

   Isolated from the Public Internet to increase security, the
Broadwing Converged Network provides Broadwing customers with the
flexibility to plug their applications into a single platform using
existing last-mile technology - whether that is Ethernet, frame relay,
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), private line or digital subscriber
line (DSL). Once Broadwing customers plug into the Converged Network,
they can choose to support their communications services using either
a Layer 2 Virtual Private LAN (VPLS) or a Layer 3 IP Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS) VPN - or both - depending on their individual
security, application and control requirements.

   About Broadwing Corporation

   Broadwing Corporation (NASDAQ:BWNG), through its consolidated
subsidiary Broadwing Communications, LLC (Broadwing) delivers
innovative data, voice, and media solutions to enterprises and service
providers. Enabled by its leading-edge optical network and
award-winning products and services, Broadwing Communications provides
communications solutions with unparalleled customer focus and speed.
For more information, visit www.broadwing.com.

   Broadwing and its logo are trademarks and/or service marks of
Broadwing Communications, LLC, and/or Broadwing Corporation. All
trademarks and service marks not belonging to Broadwing are the
property of their respective owners.

   Investor Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

   Statements in this press release regarding Broadwing Corporation
and/or Broadwing Communications, LLC (collectively "Broadwing"), that
are not statements of historical fact may include forward-looking
statements, and statements regarding Broadwing's beliefs, plans,
expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking
statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Broadwing's actual results could differ
materially from these statements.