SAVVIS Communications (NASDAQ:SVVS), a global managed IP and managed hosting services provider, today announced that leading medical device contract manufacturer TriVirix International, Inc. has selected it to provide managed IP VPN service for its offices in the U.S. and United Kingdom and will use SAVVIS' high-speed broadband Internet service. TriVirix is headquartered in North Carolina and operates three manufacturing facilities: one in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and two in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Key TriVirix applications facilitated by SAVVIS' managed IP VPN services include a globally deployed SAP ERP system and Enterprise Portal Solution, secure data transfers, file sharing, corporate intranet, e-mail and videoconferencing.

"With an employee and customer base spread across the world, we needed a door-to-door managed services solution that was competitive on price, but sacrificed nothing in terms of security, functionality or scalability," said TriVirix Vice President, Information Technology Michael Labriola. "A key market differentiator for us is our AllianceNet customer information portal. AllianceNet, powered by SAP's Enterprise Portal Solution, gives us the unique ability to share schedule and manufacturing information with our customers and suppliers. We're a rapidly growing company and we wanted a network that will grow with us. We found it in SAVVIS."

Competition to win TriVirix's business was intense, and the company considered several larger network suppliers, both in the U.S. and U.K. "There were other suppliers offering some version of 'managed IP VPNs,' but they were not competitive on price, and we weren't convinced by the service level agreements they offered," Labriola said. "Meanwhile, other suppliers were pushing frame relay, when that was clearly not appropriate for our needs."

"SAVVIS was the right choice for TriVirix. We're now looking at adding new locations to our network and potentially expanding into voice over IP applications," he said.

About TriVirix International Inc.

TriVirix International provides development, manufacturing and related services to the medical device and life science industries. The company currently has contracts to develop and manufacture electronic equipment for hemodialysis and blood analysis, hearing screening, cardiac measurement and defibrillation, patient monitoring, and various other medical diagnostic and therapeutic and biotech measurement and analysis applications. For more information, please visit http://www.trivirix.com/ .

About SAVVIS

SAVVIS Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global network service provider (NSP) that delivers IP VPNs (virtual private networks), managed hosting and Internet services to medium-sized enterprises and the financial services market. The mid-market, which is underserved by traditional data communications carriers, is the fastest growing segment of the IP VPN market. In the demanding financial services industry, SAVVIS is a leading provider of high-performance networking services. SAVVIS' Financial Xchange(SM), a private IP VPN service platform, connects more than 4,700 financial institutions to financial applications and data worldwide. Financial Xchange(SM) is also one of the largest carriers of Financial Information eXchange protocol (FIX) traffic in the United States and has partnerships with many FIX application and services providers.

Known as "The Network that Powers Wall Street"(SM), SAVVIS delivers the reliability, performance and security of traditional private networks, as well as the scalability and flexibility of the Internet, often at a price less than both. As a result, enterprises can connect their offices, partners and remote employees over an affordable private IP network and can also integrate SAVVIS' managed hosting services as well. The editors of Network Magazine named SAVVIS' IP VPNs Product of the Year for 2001. SAVVIS beat out well-known VPN providers such as AT&T, WorldCom, Sprint and Genuity.

SAVVIS was ranked the eighth fastest-growing technology company in North America on the 2001 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, which ranks companies based on five-year percentage revenue growth from 1996 - 2000. For more information about SAVVIS and its Intelligent IP Networking(SM), visit: http://www.savvis.net/