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Q9 Networks Hosts eNorthern Online Broker Web Site
Site Captures Second-Place Ranking in February Broker Survey
Toronto, ON - March 5, 2001 - Q9 Networks Inc., a leading Internet infrastructure services provider, wishes to congratulate eNorthern on its second-place ranking in the Gomez Canada Winter survey of online brokers. eNorthern moved up four spots in the February survey, pulling ahead of competitors such as TD Waterhouse, Charles Schwab, Royal Bank Action Direct and Bank of Montreal Investorline. Since Q9 began hosting the site in December 2000, eNorthern has seen substantial improvements in the speed and reliability of its Web-based operations.
eNorthern is the online division of Northern Securities Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Financial Corporation. Gomez, (www.gomez.com) is the leading provider of e-commerce customer experience measurement, benchmarking, and customer acquisition services to help firms build successful e-businesses and guide consumers in transacting online.
"We have added new content and made a number of improvements to the speed and reliability of the site in the last quarter," says AnneMarie Ryan, Senior Vice President, Online Businesses, Northern Financial Corporation. "One of those improvements was our move to Q9 Networks. Using Q9's sophisticated and reliable network, we have seen a significant improvement in response time for our site, something that is absolutely critical for online investors. We are committed to delivering superior service to our customers and Q9 is helping us achieve that."
Q9 delivers highly redundant Internet connectivity services through a sophisticated internal network of high-speed equipment and data links, connected directly to multiple Internet backbones. If one backbone experiences an outage or delay, Q9 routes traffic around the problem to ensure that Internet users have uninterrupted access to websites collocated in its facilities. Q9 continuously upgrades its network to accommodate anticipated traffic growth.
The Q9 data centre provides a highly secure physical infrastructure, with redundant power feeds, HVAC, and advanced fire detection and suppression systems. Multiple layers of security, including video surveillance, security officers and biometric authentication systems, protect the facility itself. All systems are monitored from the Q9 Network Operations Centre (NOC) 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"We are delighted to be sharing in eNorthern's achievement and we wish them continued success," says Osama Arafat, CEO, Q9 Networks. "By selecting Q9 to host its core application, eNorthern validates Q9's position as the leader in the Canadian market for Internet infrastructure and managed services. We look forward to continuing to provide the combination of data centre services, high-availability bandwidth and Internet expertise to maintain eNorthern's superior level of performance and reliability."
About Q9
Networks
Q9 Networks is the leading national provider of outsourced Internet
infrastructure and managed services for companies with mission-critical
Web operations. Q9 Networks' data centres are engineered for 100
percent uptime with SLA-backed guarantees for power and Internet
connectivity. Q9 managed services, including: bandwidth, dedicated
servers, firewalls, load balancing and back-up/restore, enable the
rapid provisioning and instantaneous scalability of client Web operations.
For more information, visit the Q9 Web site at www.Q9.com.
About eNorthern
eNorthern is the online division of Northern Securities, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northern Financial Corporation. Northern Securities is a full service Toronto-based investment bank which provides services to small market capitalization companies and which provides online trading and online public offering services at its website at www.enorthern.com. eNorthern offers Canadian investors a platform for trading North American stocks, options and mutual funds and provides extensive market information, research and analysis tools from such leading information providers as Morningstar, Financial Web, SmallCap Centre, Briefing.com and The Street.com.
For further information, please contact:
Q9 Networks
Kevin Spikes
Manager, Marketing Communications
Q9 Networks Inc.
Telephone: (416) 365-7211
media.relations@Q9.com
eNorthern
AnneMarie Ryan
Senior VP, Online Businesses
Telephone: (416) 644-8170
Fax: (416) 644-6431
amryan@enorthern.com
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