WINTER PARK, Florida, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --

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

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.

Web site: http://www.highwinds.com
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