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Amerex Brokers LLC Employs tw telecom Networking Solutions to Fortify Network

Posted on: Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 13:36 CST

HOUSTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- tw telecom, (Nasdaq: TWTC), a leading provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses, today announced the successful installation of a private, four-node network delivering Ethernet, Internet and local and long distance services for Amerex Brokers LLC of Houston. Amerex Brokers LLC provides energy brokerage services for electricity, natural gas, emission credits and allowances, renewable energy credits and retail energy procurement.

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"Reliable and secure data and voice communications are imperative to the day-to-day operations of our business," said Brian Trudeau, Chief Information Officer for Amerex Brokers LLC in Houston. "We require a network we can count on 24 hours a day, both here in Houston and across the country in our Manhattan offices, to be operational when we need it. We recognized the reliability of tw telecom's private, dedicated services could improve the way we manage our network and mitigate outages."

"The tw telecom team took the time to really learn and understand our business and was proactive in helping us implement communications solutions that furthered our objectives," said Trudeau. "What impressed us was the speed with which they can scale the circuit bandwidth to support our highly dynamic business environment. We view tw telecom as a partner in our business."

Amerex Brokers' headquarters location and disaster recovery sites in Houston communicate over a private, highly available 1 Gigabit Ethernet network. The company's Carlstadt, New Jersey site utilizes a dedicated 100Mbps Ethernet connection providing traders secure connections to the company's Houston location. Additionally, tw telecom provides a 70 Mbps Ethernet Internet connection and local and long distance voice services to all company locations.

"Our team worked closely with Amerex Brokers LLC to identify and eliminate single points of failure in their network," said Darin Cook, vice president and general manager for tw telecom in Houston. "Providing solutions, such as dedicated connections, resilient fiber rings and access point diversity through two central offices are a few of the services we provide to ensure the network uptime businesses require. We pride ourselves in our ability to consult with companies wishing to increase efficiencies, reduce cost and still maintain a fault tolerant network. In today's market place, companies like Amerex must balance the need for maximum uptime while ensuring the network is scalable and cost effective."

About tw telecom

tw telecom holdings inc., a unit of tw telecom inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., provides managed network services, specializing in Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP, VPN and security, to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughout the U.S. As a leading provider of integrated and converged network solutions, tw telecom delivers customers overall economic value, quality, service, and improved business productivity. Please visit http://www.twtelecom.com for more information.

About Amerex Brokers LLC

Founded in 1978, Amerex is a leading over-the-counter energy brokerage offering services in electricity, natural gas, emission credits and allowances, renewable energy credits, retail energy procurement and energy data services. From its office in Houston, Amerex offers liquidity and timely execution to meet the needs of a global client network of more than 1,000 firms including thousands of traders and risk management professionals. For additional information, please visit http://www.amerexenergy.com. Amerex Brokers LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GFI Group Inc. (Nasdaq: GFIG), a leading inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter derivatives products and related securities. GFI provides brokerage services, market data and analytics software products for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments. GFI operates one of the largest OTC energy brokerage businesses in North America both directly and through its wholly owned subsidiaries Amerex and StarSupply.

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