Interoute's network is the largest in Europe today, offering unparalleled homogeneity, reach and capacity. Our products and services include bandwidth, virtual private networks, high speed internet access and transit, managed hosting, communications services and media streaming. Our fibre optic network, consists of twelve rings connecting 61 cities in 19 countries across 30,000 route kilometres of lit fibre and has the capacity to carry a petabit (a billion megabits per second) of traffic. We have also built metropolitan area networks (MANs) in 21 major European centres of business with further cities planned during 2006. The company's combined network assets represent one of the largest and most advanced voice and data networks in Europe. A privately held company, Interoute is owned by a number of internationally based shareholders, the largest and major shareholder being the Sandoz Family Foundation, one of the world's largest private family foundations. If you would like to know more about our network services, including Virtual private networks (VPNs), IP transit a