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Re: WilTel or PSI?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Barber)
Wed Feb 27 10:54:23 1991

From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 09:39:52 CST
In-Reply-To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England), com-priv@psi.com, schoff@psi.com

On Feb 27,  9:55am, Kent England wrote:
} 	I would point out that provision of interLATA services and MAN
} services such as SMDS, Frame Relay, ISDN, 802.6, FDDI, etc does not of
} itself provide internet services (ie, internet protocol support).
}-- End of excerpt from Kent England

Actually, I am aware of some efforts for some of the MAN providers to
also provide internet services. That's why I postulated an analogue to
FARRNET for MAN providers.



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