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WilTel Receives Two Communications Solutions Magazine ''Product of the Year'' Awards for 2004; StorageXtend and Managed EWAN Honored for Outstanding Innovation

Posted on: Thursday, 5 May 2005, 09:00 CDT

WilTel Communications announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC(R)) Communications Solutions(TM) magazine (www.tmcnet.com/comsol) recently selected both StorageXtend(SM) and Managed EWAN for its 2004 "Product of the Year" award.

"Both of these services deliver on two major needs for enterprises -- simplified network management and reduction of capital costs and expenses," said Tony Tomae, senior vice president of marketing for WilTel. "WilTel engineered these solutions from the ground up to meet the specific wide-area networking needs of enterprise companies."

WilTel's StorageXtend is a SONET-based storage extension solution that enables enterprise customers to implement network-based business continuity, disaster recovery, as well as server and storage consolidation. StorageXtend is the industry's first solution to remove cost-prohibitive networking barriers by enabling businesses to select scalable, right-sized bandwidth in 50 Mbps increments.

Managed EWAN is a fully monitored and managed, premise-to-premise Ethernet service supported with end-to-end service level agreements (SLAs). It is the industry's first nationwide solution to extend native Ethernet directly to customer premises, providing cost-effective connectivity for multipoint wide-area networks.

"Each year Communications Solutions magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements. WilTel's StorageXtend and Managed EWAN have demonstrated to the editors of Communications Solutions that they have gone the extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and the ROI for the companies that use them," said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Publisher of Communications Solutions.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2004 will be published in the May 2005 issue of Communications Solutions magazine online (www.tmcnet.com/comsol).

About WilTel Communications

WilTel Communications, LLC, provides a diverse set of data, voice, IP, video, managed and professional services, creating advanced wide-area networking solutions for enterprise, global telecommunications providers, the federal government and media and entertainment companies. WilTel's next-generation network infrastructure reaches border-to-border and coast-to-coast with international connectivity to accommodate global traffic. WilTel Communications, LLC is the operating subsidiary of WilTel Communications Group, Inc., a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Leucadia National Corporation. For more detailed information, visit www.wiltel.com.

About TMC(R)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes two print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, and Internet Telephony; five digital publications, SIP Magazine, Speech-World, WiFI Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, WiMAX Magazine; and the online publications TMCnet.com, Planet PDA Magazine, WiFi Revolution, Alternative Power and BiometriTech. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC also produces The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.

This press release may contain "forward-looking statements." Although WilTel believes any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance that actual outcomes will not be materially different. WilTel assumes no obligation to update those statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions and other factors. The forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information that could lead to material changes in performance is contained in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made by Leucadia.

Source: Business Wire

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