Piscataway, NJ, October 23, 2000 - iCollege.com has chosen Quadrix Solutions to architect and host a world-class infrastructure for iCollege.com, the most comprehensive online resource for every constituency of the college community, including prospective students and parents, in-college students, faculty, alumni, and administrators. Quadrix Solutions is a systems integrator and web hosting company that pioneered the use of Design For eXcellence in powering the Internet economy.

"Since we anticipate over one million unique visitors per month, it was absolutely critical that our hosting provider deliver more than boxes, real estate and bodies," explains Bruce Dorfman, Chief Technology Officer. "We needed a firm that understood the depth and breadth of the technology we had chosen to run our site. Viant recommended Quadrix Solutions, and we were very impressed by their technological prowess, proactive attitude and intense customer focus. Quadrix Solutions is a small company with big time experience, one that can deliver on what it promises."

"An added benefit was that Quadrix Solutions' eData Centers are built on top of Level 3's facilities," adds Dorfman. "This reassured us that the infrastructure was best-of-breed and had a nationwide reach, which was important to our rollout plan."

According to Tom Palmieri, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Quadrix Solutions: "We ensured that iCollege.com would see a return on its site development investment, by employing Quadrix Solutions' Design For eXcellence approach, which creates an architecture that delivers performance, reliability, scalability, security, operability, serviceability and maintainability. This guarantees our clients a quality of service that other vendors simply cannot deliver."

"The system architecture cannot be an afterthought, that's why it was so helpful to involve a company like Quadrix Solutions from the very beginning of the project," notes Dorfman. "Quadrix developed a very sophisticated architecture that will deliver the performance we need, while giving us tremendous scalability options for future growth. Quadrix is also very cognizant of securing our web presence. The security processes and technology that Quadrix put in place are extremely thorough and comprehensive."

"Based on references from other companies that have highly trafficked sites, such as BMGMusicService.com, in addition to our own experience to date with Quadrix Solutions, I am confident that we're in good hands," continues Dorfman.

iCollege, with its presence at 1,200 universities, created iCollege.com to help these institutions realize the full potential of the Internet by supplementing their existing web sites with practical online tools, useful content and cutting edge technology. The iCollege.com site is very complex, with scores of dynamic capabilities and an abundance of rich media, especially video.

About iCollege

iCollege has served the college market on a national basis for over fourteen years and enjoys business relationships with over 1,200 colleges and universities. iCollege delivers a variety of technology products that help institutions manage their campus environments effectively. The .Edu-enhancement package provides a level of internet functionality to college and university Web sites that most institutions could not afford to develop on their own. Some features of the .Edu-enhancement package include an online admissions application, rich media archives of lectures and sporting events, online virtual classrooms, and interactive campus calendars, among others.

iCollege is also the market leader in card access systems and point-of-sale software for colleges and universities. With nearly 500 schools using an iCollege card system, iCollege ID cards are carried by over 3 million college students.

About Quadrix Solutions

Quadrix Solutions, a systems integrator and web hosting company, designs and implements eBusiness solutions at its eSolutions Centers and then supports them over the long-term at its eData Centers. Quadrix Solutions pioneered the use of Design For eXcellence (DFX) in powering the Internet economy, and defines "eXcellence" in terms of quality, time-to-market, reliability, scalability, security, operability, serviceability and maintainability. Quadrix Solutions' clients include AT&T, American Cyanamid, BMG Direct Marketing, BMG Entertainment, Bell Atlantic, GetMusic, LEGO Mindstorms, Medscape and SmartMoney.com.