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ANS bridges the gap between the diversity of small ISPs and the robustness of tier-one service providers. Scoring high marks from its customers for accessibility, reliability and responsiveness, ANS is one of the few providers of this magnitude to retain the small-sized touch that network administrators have grown to love. Tunneling a bit deeper, it's no wonder why the vendor has been so successful.

A pioneer of private peering, ANS has grown with its network and steers clear of oversubscription. Committed to doing what it does best, this ISP takes a proactive approach to service. One example: network outages. Most ANS customers report that they're informed of an outage before they've even noticed it. Other value-added services include knowledgeable level-one support engineers, firewall and intrusion-detection services, and Web hosting on Unix and NT platforms. With an OC3-based backbone, international presence, attachments to all NAPs (network access points) and a growth model focused on private peering, ANS is, in every sense, well-connected in 1998.

ANS Managed Network Services,
ANS Commu-nications,
(800) 456-8267, (914) 701-5440,
www.ans.net