APlus.Net and WiredRed Introduce Web Conferencing Service [November 24, 2004]

Browser-based software allows for easy online meetings with video, sound, white board, web, and file sharing

San Diego, California – November 24, 2004 Aplus.Net (www.aplus.net), a leading web site hosting and development firm for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), announced today the launch of a browser-based web conferencing service that dramatically simplifies online conferencing.

Provided through a partnership between San Diego based Aplus.Net and WiredRed Software, e/pop Web Conferencing is a perfect solution for businesses that want to harness the efficiency and savings of web conferencing. Aplus.Net is offering a dedicated server to each conferencing customer in order to eliminate interference and slowness problems typical of shared conferencing services. Unlike many competitors, Aplus.Net will not charge premiums for the many extra options included with the service.

“The e/pop Web Conferencing service has all the features of Industry leaders like WebEx and sells for a fraction of the price.” said Ivan Vachovsky, Chief Executive Officer of Aplus.Net. “It is a part of our commitment to provide the best technologies for an affordable price to our customers.”

“With our technology, web conferencing is like meeting in person. Aplus.Net has taken it to the next level, providing complete web and desktop video conferencing to companies of all sizes, even those without a full-time IT staff,” said Steven Peltier, Chief Executive Officer of WiredRed Software.

Getting started with an e/pop Web Conference is as easy as pointing a web browser at a single URL. Customers will appreciate the ease of service initiation; there is no server set-up because Aplus.net provides complete hardware, server software and bandwidth in a turnkey plan.

e/pop Web Conferencing software offers many improvements over leading industry services. For example, many web conference services fail to live up to user expectations due to slow or chunky audio/visual quality. While some services offer solutions to the A/V quality problem by extra cost add-ons, e/pop Web Conferencing offers high-quality audio and video as a standard feature. Aside from the standard high-quality video, e/pop Web Conferencing also offers fully adjustable audio and video quality for each conference participant – allowing the individual user to accommodate for bandwidth constraints that may be experienced at a specific location.

The real-time aspect of e/pop Web Conferencing is further complemented by immediate “page turning” on PowerPoint presentations. Because presentations are cached on each meeting participant’s computer, only the “change” commands are sent over the Internet. As a result, changes are immediate.

e/pop Web Conferencing also feature intuitive permission settings and meeting controls which can be established and used by the chair of the meeting. For example, users can be “promoted” to presenter status, demoted, or even expelled from a conference. While management of the software is easy, Aplus.Net provides 24x7 support to answer any questions that may result from world meetings held at odd hours.

Current e/pop Web Conferencing software clients include Barr Management, Bond Street Capital, Oxford Global Resources, Denver Health, CRT Medical, Cinergy, and the Tindall Corporation. PC Magazine wrote that e/pop conferencing is “a lower-priced Web conferencing solution, and has plenty of collaboration options”.

Parties interested in trying e/pop Web Conferencing can do so through a test account that Aplus.Net has created. To set up a test drive, or for more information about e/pop Web Conferencing, call Aplus.Net at (877) 275-8763 or visit epop.aplus.net.

About Web Conferencing
Web conferencing software allows professionals around the world to participate in meetings via the Internet and standard USB-based web cameras. Since the software operates in real-time, these meetings are live - as if the individuals were in the same meeting room. What’s more, participants in web conferences can share documents and presentations with every other meeting participant.

About Aplus.Net
Aplus.Net is a leading provider of Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses. Aplus.Net specializes in providing a complete Internet presence, including domain name registration, corporate identity on the Internet, matching e-mail addresses, web design; web hosting, e-commerce, credit card processing tools, and website maintenance. Aplus.Net is among the ten largest privately held web hosting and domain name registration companies in the USA and is a facilities-based provider. For more information about Aplus.Net, please visit www.aplus.net.

About WiredRed Software
WiredRed Software is a technology leader in enterprise real-time communications. More than 3,500 commercial and government customers use WiredRed’s award-winning e/pop software to meet their secure instant messaging, company-wide alert and web conferencing challenges. For more information about WiredRed, please visit www.wiredred.com.

For More Information:
Brian Chernicky
Public Relations Manager
(858) 410-6908
brianc@aplus.net