ING DIRECT Selects Sprint's "Peerless IP" Network

ING DIRECT, a large bank with more than 1.8 million customers, has selected the Sprint "peerless IP" network architecture for its highly secure communications network services. The service provides an IP-VPN without any connections to the public global Internet. Sprint said its government-grade "peerless IP" network was originally aimed at meeting the security and performance demands of many federal and state government agencies. The FBI, National Guard and other key agencies have implemented the Sprint peerless IP solution. Since announcing government availability in April 2003 and the commercial availability of the service in January 2004, Sprint has signed contracts with more than 25 commercial customers to connect more than 3,000 sites on the peerless network. http://www.sprint.com