VITAL NETWORK SERVICES ANNOUNCES SUPPORT CAPABILITIES FOR PROCURVE NETWORKING BY HP PRODUCTS

New Capabilities Designed to Complement ProCurve’s Industry-leading Warranty and Care Pack Services for a Total Lifecycle Solution

TAMPA, Fla. -- February 12, 2008 --VITAL Network Services, Inc., a multivendor provider of network lifecycle solutions, today announced the expansion of its support capabilities to include the LAN-edge and LAN-core products from ProCurve Networking by HP.  Available immediately, VITAL will offer equipment staging, installation, break/fix, and professional engineering services to support ProCurve’s portfolio of routing switches, switches, hubs, and network access controllers.   

VITAL will deliver these services utilizing skilled technology professionals from its 24x7 Technical Support Center and nationwide onsite field engineering organization.  These resources have been trained and HP certified on the suite of ProCurve’s products and possess the necessary skills and tools to ensure success. 

“As a multivendor, service-only company, we are committed to delivering comprehensive support solutions for a wide range of best-in-class networking products,” said John Koehler, president and CEO of VITAL.  “With countless organizations depending on ProCurve to achieve their goals, it was a natural decision to invest in the additional training and infrastructure to support ProCurve’s products.  We are excited about integrating support capabilities for ProCurve Networking by HP into our extensive portfolio of multivendor network lifecycle service and support solutions.” 

In addition to offering these services to its customers and partners, VITAL also operates as ProCurve’s service delivery partner for North America.

About VITAL Network Services
VITAL Network Services, a service-only, multivendor support provider headquartered in Tampa, Florida, delivers industry-leading network support services to large enterprise customers, network equipment manufacturers, integrators, value-added resellers, distributors, and carriers. The company’s comprehensive portfolio of traditional LAN/WAN internetworking, IP Telephony, and managed broadband-based VPN solutions helps customers realize the full value of their network investment by addressing all facets of the network lifecycle including network design and planning, integration, maintenance, and proactive monitoring. VITAL’s ubiquitous field engineering force enables the company to deliver onsite support services to nearly any zip code within North America.

More information about VITAL and its services is available online at http://www.vital-ns.com, or by calling 1-888-248-4825.