ARDENT COMMUNICATIONS APPOINTS NEW ACTING CEO AND NEW PRESIDENT

Company Founder Ulysses Auger, II and Former Executive Vice President,
                     Evans Anderson, to Lead Company

McLean, Va.; November 12, 2001-Ardent Communications, Inc. (OTCBB:
ARDT), a provider of broadband access and bundled data services, today
announced that it has appointed Ulysses Auger, current chairman of the
board and the company's original chief executive officer, as its acting
chief executive officer. Ardent has also named Evans Anderson as the
company's president.

Ulysses Auger has served as Ardent's chairman of the board since January
1998 and was the company's chief executive officer from January 1998 to
October 2000. Auger has an extensive background in the telecommunications
industry including a three-term membership on the board of directors of
Comptel, a telecommunications industry trade association with approximately
225 member companies. The company's former chief executive officer, Michael
Lee, has left the company to pursue other interests.

"Ardent Communications has a strong and solid history in the Internet
industry that I hope we will have well into the future. The board has
asked me to come back and shepherd the company through this difficult
period in its history." said Auger. "I am pleased that Evans Anderson, a
key figure in the company's history, has agreed to come back and assist
the company as well. With the help of our dedicated staff, our customers
and our creditors I hope that we can move Ardent back on to the road to
success."

Evans Anderson, the company's new president, was the former executive
vice president of sales and marketing when the company was known as CAIS
Internet. Most recently he founded and was general partner of Title Wave
Networks, a company focused on the sales and distribution of high-speed
broadband DSL data equipment to the telecommunications and integrator
marketplace in both North and South America.

"The company's real assets are its people, its MPLS-enabled, nationwide
network and position as a Tier One ISP," said Anderson. "I look forward
to the re-emergence of Ardent as a leading provider of high quality
Internet services."

On October 10, 2001, Ardent Communications filed voluntary petitions for
reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.  Ardent
continues to support its current customers and offers new customers high
quality data services while the company undergoes this restructuring.

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For more information on Ardent Communications, please visit www.ardentcomm.com
or call 800-270-0000.

Ardent Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: ARDT) is a nationwide supplier of
broadband Internet access solutions and provides price competitive high
speed Internet services to businesses in 29 Points of Presence (serving
38 metro areas) across the nation utilizing a tier-one, nationwide
Internet network. The Company offers always-on, broadband Internet
access to its customers through its digital subscriber line (DSL)
service, and through T-1, DS-3 and other bandwidth connections in major
metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. Additionally, the Company
provides bundled data services including Web hosting, colocation
services and other value added managed data services. Finally, the
Company also provides service to certain hotel properties utilizing
installed high speed Internet service and business centers. The Company
uses its unmanned business centers and Internet kiosks to deliver
broadband Internet access and content to hotels and public venues, such
as airports, retail centers, and cruise ships.

Ardent Communications, Inc. is headquartered in McLean, VA. and operates
a coast-to-coast OC-12 clear-channel network, and peers with public and
private partners, and at national exchange points.

This release contains statements relating to Ardent's future
expectations and business strategies or other "forward-looking"
information. Those statements are subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contemplated by the statements. Important
factors that may cause actual results to differ from projections
include, among others: changes in business and market conditions;
changes in the Internet services industry and the general economy; our
limited operating history; our ability to manage rapid growth; our
ability to enter into joint ventures and other strategic relationships
with companies on terms acceptable to us; access to additional capital;
and the impact of computer and related problems that may arise from our
operations.


Allison Tobin
Public Relations Manager
Ardent Communications, Inc.
1820 North Fort Myer Dr.
Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 276-4266--phone
(703) 628-1893--cell
a.tobin@ardentcomm.com