eHarmony Selects Mzima Networks' Optimized Connectivity for Powerful Online Relationship Building Tools

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Mzima Networks, the leading next-generation provider of network services to Enterprise businesses and Internet content providers today announced that eHarmony, Inc. has selected Mzima as its primary bandwidth provider for high capacity, high availability Internet connectivity with an initial deployment in CRG West's new Wilshire Annex Data Center in Los Angeles.

In order to deliver consistent high-performance services to their customers, eHarmony has partnered with Mzima, which operates a high-speed 10 Gig backbone engineered for the growth of media-rich content enterprises. Mzima's private backbone with abundant transit and peering capacity connects eHarmony to multiple Tier-1 network providers and sustains low-latency connectivity through extensive private peering with domestic and international broadband networks.

"Mzima's focus on service reliability and high network availability, combined with their implementation of optimized routing and performance," said Cyrus Mohit, manager of data center operations at eHarmony, "made Mzima's network the obvious choice for eHarmony to use as our IP transit service provider."

To build the networks, both companies selected Force10 Networks TeraScale equipment. As the leader in 10 Gig Ethernet applications, Force10 enables eHarmony and Mzima to quickly scale bandwidth as demand grows.

Mzima Networks uses proprietary statistical routing technologies and a relatively flat network topology to optimize the performance of the network. Mzima analyzes and re-engineers traffic to and from Mzima's and our customers' networks to the rest of the Internet to give the best possible performance attributes in metrics such as latency and jitter.

"We are excited that eHarmony has entrusted Mzima to handle their existing and anticipated traffic growth," stated Andy Peterson, Director of Strategic Business at Mzima Networks. "The Mzima team of engineers and professionals, along with the strong performance of the Mzima network are optimally positioned for this trust and responsibility."

eHarmony.com registers 10,000-15,000 new users every day, and with the U.S. Patented "Compatibility Matching System" eHarmony.com is the Internet's #1 trusted relationship service.

About Mzima Networks

Mzima Networks, founded in 2002, is the world's leading high-performance network service provider. Mzima delivers Internet bandwidth via its proprietary NetAlive network architecture and wide-area backbone network, and specializes in high-bandwidth applications by leveraging native 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies. By building metropolitan optical rings connected to multiple Tier-1 backbone providers coupled with extensive private peering with numerous broadband ISPs and content providers, Mzima Networks offers its customers the fastest, most reliable connectivity currently available. For more information please visit: http://www.mzima.net/

About eHarmony

eHarmony is the Internet's #1 relationship service and the only site dedicated to building the relationships of both singles and married couples. In 2000, backed by 35 years of clinical and empirical research, eHarmony became the first relationship service on the Web to use a scientific approach to matching highly compatible singles. Millions of people of all ages, ethnicities, and religious backgrounds have met using the company's patented Compatibility Matching System(TM), and tens of thousands have found strong and satisfying marriages throughout the world. Six years later, the company launched a new service, eHarmony Marriage, a personalized, interactive, online "marriage wellness" program designed to help couples achieve stronger, healthier and happier marriages. eHarmony was founded by America's best-known relationship expert, best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Neil Clark Warren.

Mzima Networks

CONTACT: Kenneth Adams of Mzima Networks, 1-877-456-5231,
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Web site: http://www.mzima.net/