IT Channel Group, a leading technology sales and marketing agency in Canada, will support sales of Internap performance-based IP networking solutions and products via co-marketing efforts as well as business and channel development activities. 

“Internap solutions are complementary to our existing portfolio and are ideal for IT Channels strategy to expand into a new, innovative IP territory,” said Richard Bryer, IT Channel Group. “This agreement allows us to meet our existing client and partner needs faster and more effectively. We’re excited about helping Canada’s premier networking technology resellers connect their customers with leading route-control solutions by serving as the liaison to Internap product and services.”

Under the agreement, Internap expands its ability to reach a broad range of ISVs, value added resellers and distributors, consultants and systems integrators that are focused on providing solutions to help companies optimize the performance of their business-critical applications over IP networks.

Together the companies will promote Internap route optimization solutions, including the award-winning Internap Flow Control Platform and the Flow Control Xcelerator (FCX), which help overcome application performance issues. The appliances are ideal solutions for companies across a variety of industries, such as retail, gaming, financial services and entertainment, which require faster, more reliable use of the Internet.   

"Many potential resellers and partners are beginning to embrace the benefits of route-control and WAN optimization technology, but are unsure where to start," said David Abrahamson, vice president of global sales, Internap. "As business needs continue to converge around integrating the Internet into business processes, Internap is dedicated to working closely with IT Channel, not just on new customer acquisitions, but also to increase awareness of how route-control technologies can transform the Internet into a viable platform for businesses.”

LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld Canada Conference & Expo 2006 is the number one marketplace for management and IT professionals to interact and learn about the newest applications and solutions and see demonstrations of leading information technology based products, services.  The event zeros in on technology hot spots, security, network management, VOIP, and Internet services, among others.                                                  

About IT Channel Group

IT Channel Group is Canada's premier National Agency providing outsourced Sales and Marketing services for U.S., Canadian and European companies in the Canadian Information Technology marketplace. IT Channel Group represents hardware and software vendors with solutions for the IT Security, Network Infrastructure and Thin Client computing markets who sell to the customer directly or through VAR's, System Integrators and other resellers

Partnering with IT Channel Group enables manufacturers to accelerate their revenue growth by expanding into the Canadian market without risk and without incurring the high cost of establishing a subsidiary, branch office or company representatives in a foreign country. 

About Internap
Internap is a market leader of intelligent route-control solutions that bring reliability, performance and security to the Internet. The company's patented and patent-pending technologies address the inherent weaknesses of the Internet, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of the benefits of deploying business-critical applications such as e-commerce, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), video-conferencing, and streaming audio/video across the Internet. Through a portfolio of high-performance IP and WAN optimization solutions, customers can bypass congestion points, overcome routing inefficiencies and optimize performance of their applications. Internap solutions are backed by an industry-leading performance guarantee that covers the Internet as opposed to just one network. These offerings include: network- and premise-based route optimization solutions, colocation, VPN, content distribution and managed security services.