ALVAKA NETWORKS WINS ESTEEMED BTA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (August 27, 2001) – Alvaka Networks has won the Business Technology Association Award of Excellence for 2001.  This award is presented for superior performance in four categories: financial, operational, vision, and community and industry involvement.  An independent evaluator rated the companies’ performance in 20 areas, including financial benchmarks, programs to reduce employee turnover, improving customer retention, strategic planning, marketing innovations, industry recognition and community involvement.

Award of Excellence nominees are evaluated against their peers.  “The selection is made by an independent evaluator who reviews and scores each candidate,” says Robin Keller, a BTA Director.  Ms. Keller goes on to say, “Alvaka Networks represents the finest in BTA.”

“Everyone at Alvaka Networks is elated over this recognition,” says Oli Thordarson, President and CEO of Alvaka Networks, “It is great to see this outside validation of our work.”  “With over a million dollars of Alvaka’s earnings invested into our AlvakaNet Managed Services offerings, it is particularly rewarding to know that our innovation within the IT services industry is one of the major driving forces behind our selection,” says Steven “Rex” Frank, Chief Technology Officer at Alvaka Networks.

Alvaka Networks, headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, is a leading provider of network management, monitoring, security and integration services. Alvaka's core company purpose is to constantly improve the way networks are managed and serviced. AlvakaNet and NetSecure, Alvaka's flagship service products, are a bundled set of network management, monitoring, security and Internet access services that provide Alvaka Networks' clients with guaranteed 24x7 uptime and lower Total Cost of Ownership.  In 19 years of business, Alvaka Networks has seen a lot of broken network systems.  They are usually unsecure, poorly designed, over-burdened, don’t work right and no one knows what the last guy did to it.  Alvaka Networks fixes all that!

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