As of September 2001, Rhythms NetConnections Inc. went out of business. Rhythms NetConnections Inc. provides broadband local access communication services. Its services include a range of high-speed connections that offer its customers both cost and performance advantages when accessing the Internet or private networks. The company uses multiple Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technologies to provide data transfer rates ranging from 128 kbps to 8.0 Mbps delivering data to the end user and from 128 kbps to 1.5 Mbps receiving data from the end user. Rhythms' local connection services connect individual users or multiple users on a local area network through its metropolitan network to its national network, the Internet or a telecommunications carrier's network using DSL technology over traditional copper telephone lines. The company's primary DSL technologies include Rate adaptive DSL, Symmetrical DSL, and Integrated digital subscriber line. Rhythms' customers include large enterprises, telecommunication carriers and their Internet service provider (ISP) affiliates, and other ISPs. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.