[9718] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
T3plus Press Release on IBM purchased equipment for ANS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Mon Jan 17 23:55:27 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 20:48:16 PST
To: com-priv@psi.com
Anyone have a comment as to the significance of this? IE why are these
installed only now? Note that IBM bought them for ANS. I though that ANS was
independent and made its own purchasing decisions?
SANTA CLARA, California -- January 17, 1994 -- The National Science
Foundation NSFnet backbone service, the primary backbone for the
Internet in the United States, is now relying on new high-speed
broadband networking equipment from T3plus Networking, Inc. to meet the
growing communications demands of its millions of computer users.
Advanced Network & Services, Inc. (ANS), which operates the NSFnet
backbone service under contract to Merit, has recently completed
installation of new T3plus BMX45* Broadband Bandwidth Managers in many
locations throughout the United States.
To fulfill its contract with ANS and as a major technology provider
to NSFnet, IBM awarded T3plus Networking a contract valued at more than
one million dollars for the BMX45 systems. ANS and IBM selected the
T3plus systems because of their ability to:
* improve network reliability and manageability;
* provide multimegabit inverse multiplexing using lower speed T1
lines for backup and disaster recovery; and
* support the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) OC-3 broadband
standard, providing a smooth growth path to even higher speeds and
a transmission foundation for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
networking.
"T3plus is providing a technology which has been instrumental in
helping us improve the speed and reliability of our network, which is
now carrying 10 Terabytes a month--an amount equivalent to the
information stored in the Library of Congress," said Allan Weis,
president and CEO of Advanced Network & Services, Inc.
