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DALLAS,
Carreker Corporation, which provides consulting and software solutions to the financial services industry, selected Time Warner Telecom over other competitors due to the company’s ability to deliver cost effective networking solutions over its metro Ethernet platform to enhance the speed, flexibility, scalability, and reliability of Carreker’s banking data systems backup. Terms of the «Time Warner Telecom’s Ethernet Internet service was the ideal solution to help us achieve a number of objectives,» said Bobby Adams, IT operations manager for Carreker Corporation. «For example, we’ve significantly enhanced our business continuity capabilities by substantially reducing our recovery window. Previously, our remote sites backed up data to tape on a weekly basis. Time Warner Telecom’s Internet service allows us to do this nightly, and for critical applications, every 15 minutes.» Time Warner Telecom has completed a virtual private network (VPN) link between Carreker’s Dallas headquarters and Disaster Recovery (DR) site with its 10/100 Mbps Ethernet over SONET Native LAN service, and Charlotte and Memphis with 10Mbs, burstable to 100 Mbps, Ethernet Internet service. Carreker plans to include its Atlanta office in this network by year’s end. This represents an operational shift for Carreker, away from deploying more expensive Adams credits being on Time Warner Telecom’s national IP network backbone with delivering low transmission «Our service offering gives companies like Carreker Corporation an attractive alternative to using more costly dedicated T1s or DS3s,» said Adam Sheiner, vice president and general manager for Time Warner Telecom in Dallas. «Customer IT managers find our Time Warner Telecom’s Native LAN service has been designated a Cisco Powered Network service, signifying that this service is built around Cisco’s industry leading technology. About Time Warner Telecom Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., is a leading provider of managed network solutions to a wide array of businesses and organizations in 44 U.S. metropolitan areas that require telecommunications intensive services. One of the country’s premier competitive telecom carriers, Time Warner Telecom integrates data, dedicated Internet access, and local and long distance voice services for long distance carriers, wireless communications companies, incumbent local exchange carriers, and such enterprise organizations as healthcare, finance, higher education, manufacturing, hospitality, state and local government, and military. Please visit www.twtelecom.com for more information. About Carreker Carreker Corporation improves earnings for financial institutions around the world. The Company’s integrated consulting and software solutions are designed to increase clients’ revenues and reduce their expenses, while improving security and increasing the value of their customer relationships. Carreker provides products and services to more than 250 clients in the Americas, Europe, Australia, Asia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Clients include the full range of community, regional and large banks, among them more than 75 of the largest 100 banks in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas since 1978, Carreker Corporation has offices in London and Sydney. For more information, visit www.carreker.com.