Acceleration is a leading provider of business-class IT solutions:
high-speed Internet access services, private network design and
managed support, website hosting and co-location, dedicated and
virtual server hosting, and custom application
programming.

Started in 1997 as an Internet Service Provider,
Acceleration was the first to provide the 56K, v.90 dial-up standard
to the state of Florida and later, one of the first to provide
competitive broadband services including ADSL, SDSL, and Metro
Ethernet. Acceleration is a privately owned Florida corporation with
its main headquarters in Gainesville where it also
operates a fully redundant data center servicing co-location and
website hosting clients from Jacksonville to Orlando to
Tampa. Acceleration operates its own regional ATM backbone that spans
the Southeastern United States. Points of presence include Miami,
Orlando, and Gainesville, Florida and Atlanta and Marietta,
Georgia. The Acceleration broadband network extends nationally via its
numerous ATM and TDM interconnections with ILEC, CLEC, fiber provider,
and national broadband operators, making Acceleration one of only a
few US Internet and data transport providers that can service nearly
any market on its own IP network and do so
cost effectively using combinations
of ADSL, SDSL,
T1, Metro Ethernet or just about any inexpensive last-mile
technology.

"Small company, BIG opportunities"

Probably the most unique aspect of Acceleration is the
scale of our broadband service. In 1999 and 2000, when many
Internet providers were rushing to build their DSL networks and get
any product to market as quickly as possible, it became clear to us
that nearly every regional or national DSL player was choosing ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) as the
underlaying transport technology. We already understood the advantages
of ATM technology and realized that
it could be used to build advanced private network solutions for
businesses with many locations at costs that would be a fraction of
what frame relay or point-to-point longhaul T1 services cost. We
expanded the Acceleration ATM network with interconnections to just
about every local phone company and national broadband operator that
had ATM interconnection as an option, creating one of the largest
layer 2 ATM interconnected networks in existence that provides access
to nearly every city in the country with some type of broadband
connection. We might be using an Embarq ADSL in Florida, an AT&T
ADSL in Atlanta, a One Communication MVL in Pittsburg, a New Edge SDSL
in Omaha, or a Covad T1 in San Francisco. All of these locations are
on the same layer 2 network that is managed by a single entity who can
provide many flexible configurations to suit any client's IP needs. It
is very much like making the client its own ISP that is directly
connected to all of these ATM and broadband networks.

Of course, unlike Acceleration that has to foot the bill for
running its own regional backbone and expensive interconnections to
reach just about every US market, the large business client with
multiple locations doesn't pay any more than it would by simply
purchasing individual ADSL and T1 connections. That's basically a FREE
private network! For many IT departments, managing a private network
can be a source of frustration, especially when a private network is
built entirely virtual (VPN). The Acceleration product is TRULY a
private network, so much so we gave it our own name: Accelerated
Private Network or APN. You may have heard of services called "Managed
Private Networks" or "Managed VPN." That's simply an ISP managing your
VPN network for you. They will still put you on potentially unreliable
ADSL and T1 connections with several vendors, requiring your packets
to travel through twenty public routers to get from location to
location, but it will "appear" like a private network because of
devices like Cisco PIX VPN routers. These devices encrypt the packets
before they leave on to the open Internet and are decrypted by a VPN
router at another location. Besides, the fact that your packets just
traversed the open Internet illustrates why VPNs by their nature slow
things down a bit. Think of your DVR cable box at home; switching
channels is a little slow because the box has to do some processing
with the new video information before you can begin to view it. Now, a
VPN is a great little solution when you have no other choice at a
given location, but you do have a choice; it's called Accelerated
Private Network by Acceleration.

ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS INTO THE FUTURE!

"We are constantly improving and upgrading our services to ensure our
clients have the best tools available and the competitive edge necessary
to compete in their respective industries" - Brett Tambling, CEO

Acceleration has seen explosive growth as a result of this philosophy,
expanding its offering to include not only high-speed access products,
but also web hosting and programming services.