Highwinds and Virgin Media Partner to Deliver Enhanced Newsgroup Capabilities

Leveraging Highwinds' content delivery network, Virgin Media will provide
lightning-fast access to newsgroup forums on thousands of topics

WINTER PARK, Fla., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
"We at Highwinds are excited to be partnering with Virgin Media to improve
the content delivery experience of their newsgroup subscribers," said Robb
Barkley, VP Corporate Communications at Highwinds. "Our massive CDN with
points of presence worldwide will play a key role in enabling Virgin Media to
implement their advanced newsgroup service with greatly enhanced article
retention, access speeds and availability."
About Virgin Media
Virgin Media is an innovative and pioneering UK entertainment and
communications business. For the first time consumers can get everything they
need from one company -- the UK's only quad play of TV, broadband, phone and
mobile plus the most advanced TV on demand service available, the UK's first
high definition TV service and V+, a high specification personal video
recorder. Virgin Media is the UK's largest residential broadband provider, the
largest virtual mobile network operator and the second largest provider of pay
TV and home phone.
Virgin Media owns two content businesses -- Virgin Media Television (VMTV)
and sit-up. VMTV owns seven entertainment channels -- Virgin1, Living, Living
2, Bravo, Bravo 2, Challenge, and Trouble -- and is a 50% partner in UKTV
which consists of nine channels including Dave, UKTV Gold and UKTV History.
sit-up runs retail TV channels bid tv, price-drop tv and speed auctiontv.
Virgin Media is the largest Virgin company in the world and has almost 10
million customers. To find out more, visit www.virginmedia.com/presscentre .
About Highwinds Network Group, Inc.
Highwinds has been a leader in the development of content replication and
delivery software and services since 2002. This experience has led to a number
of technology innovations in network management, distributed file system
technology and advanced content routing methods. The Highwinds CDN leverages
best-in-class hardware and software to quickly and successfully move content
at a global level. The company's high-performance RollingThunder(TM) network
and user-friendly StrikeTracker(TM) content management and reporting dashboard
enable clients to deploy and manage content, file downloads and streaming
media. Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data
centers in 13 North American and European cities. For more information, visit
www.highwinds.com .
RollingThunder and StrikeTracker are trademarks of Highwinds Network
Group, Inc.
SOURCE Highwinds Network Group, Inc.

Media, Wynne Ahern of Commstrat, office, +1-510-658-8870 or +1-510-206-2161,
wynne@commstrat.net; or Asam Ahmad, Virgin Media, +011-44-207-909-2122, or
+011-44-7956-570-075, asam.ahmad@virginmedia.co.uk; or Highwinds Network
Group, Inc., +1-866-668-7119