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Rebecca Wan Webvisions Pte Ltd rwan@webvisions.com Phyllis Heng Asia-Pacific Connections Pte Ltd (65) 334-9045 phyllis@apconnections.com Janice Ong M2b.com Pte Ltd (65) 325-6570 janice@m2bworld.com

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Webvisions' Managed Services Empower M2B.Com'S First Nationwide On-Demand Broadband Entertainment Portals

Singapore, 8 December 2000 - Webvisions Pte Ltd, a leading pan-Asian provider of premium hosting infrastructure services for mission-critical Internet businesses, today announced that M2b.com has selected its managed hosting solutions to facilitate one of the world's largest on-demand content streaming across the Broadband in real time.

M2b.com is the leading entertainment creator and provider of the largest mass entertainment broadband sites in Singapore. Its entertainment content is poised for global consumption via online television channels using broadband, Internet portals and 3G devices. M2b.com is currently offering eight broadband channels with streaming videos, with seven channels featuring interactive entertainment and lifestyle programmes, and one channel providing an online shopping portal for traders and consumers.

"The popularity, originality and sheer volume of M2b.com's continuous live content streaming meant that they needed a bandwidth-rich broadband solution with scalable storage capabilities and a high-availability failover backup plan," said Lewis Lee, Vice President, Technical Services of Webvisions.

"Our network consultants worked closely with M2b.com to architect a secure and extensive solution to meet anticipated high website traffic loads and expanding requirements," added Lee. "We are proud to assist M2b.com's innovative broadband content portal in developing and securing their mission-critical website."

Technologies Enhancing M2b.com's Broadband Channels

M2b.com is empowered by Webvisions' feature-rich load-balancing services and extensive bandwidth resources. Webvisions deploys a load-balancing system that offers users fast performance and constant uptime, and manages the load between two or more servers by directing users to alternate servers for downloading video clips. Besides acquiring the load-balancers and firewalls from Webvisions, M2b.com also purchased eight Linux-based dedicated servers. Each server can hold gigabytes of video clips for on-demand streaming. These servers could deliver 120 hours of programming daily for M2b's channels and they are of high-level redundancy.

Webvisions' managed firewall solutions will provide 24x7 monitoring, security event monitoring and security incident response. They will also detect localised Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of users to ensure their rapid accessibility to the on-demand content streaming.

"We chose Webvisions because it is well-positioned to provide us with a completely reliable and secure infrastructure to run our sites," said Colin Binny, Executive Chariman and President of M2b.com. "We are offering a new generation of content entertainment-on-demand. It is crucial to our success that we deliver entertainment and shopping opportunities in a convenient and uninterrupted environment to our viewers and shoppers."

About Webvisions

Webvisions Pte Ltd is a leading pan-Asian provider of premium hosting infrastructure services for mission-critical Internet businesses. Webvisions hosts over 8,000 businesses internationally and provides a comprehensive range of dedicated web hosting services, such as e-commerce, server co-location, application and database hosting, to its regional and international clientele. Headquartered in Singapore, Webvisions has offices in India and Malaysia, and a strong partner network that spans the Asia-Pacific region. For more information about Webvisions, please visit the company's web site at http://www.webvisions.com

About M2b.com

M2b is a diversified media company who specialises in the interactive media industry, tapping on the latest interactive and e-commerce technologies, with good access to international content and programming. With 7 entertainment channels and 1 online shopping mall to cater to viewers of different demographics and interests, M2b combines two leisure activities into one, for the ultimate convenience and entertainment satisfaction. M2b is extending her business arm into Malaysia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and San Francisco in twelve months time. For more details, enter www.m2bworld.com.