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- EUnet JOINS CIX ASSOCIATION
-
- Amsterdam, 2 April 1992. EUnet, the pan-European
- open systems computer network, today announced that
- it has become the first operating European network
- to join the Commercial Internet Exchange Association
- (CIX).
-
- EUnet is Europe's largest subscription-funded
- network, focusing on users in the research and
- development community since 1982. Operating in
- nearly every country from Iceland to Russia and as
- far South as Tunisia, EUnet connects over 2500
- networks and sites and has gateways to every major
- network in Europe. EUnet services include Electronic
- Mail, Network (USENET) News, and Archive access.
- EUnet's InterEunet service, in operation since 1990,
- provides international and intercontinental LAN
- interconnection services based on the TCP/IP
- protocols to over 100 organisations across Europe.
- EUnet is a service by and for the members of
- EurOpen, the European Forum for Open System, a not-
- for-profit organisation.
-
- The Commercial Internet Exchange Association, Inc.
- (CIX), was formed in 1991 as a non-profit trade
- association to provide a non-restrictive
- packet interchange for TCP/IP and OSI traffic. The
- Association actively solicits membership and network
- connections with all commercial and non-profit US
- national, Regional, and Mid-level networks, Federal
- and state government networks, and international
- network organisations.
-
- Mitch Kapor, President of the CIX Association, said
- the CIX was delighted that EUnet has joined and
- that CIX will now truly become an international network
- connecting European and U.S. network subscribers.
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