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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Performance Systems International
- 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive - Suite 1100
- Reston, VA 22091
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- _E_m_a_i_l: info@psi.com
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- _P_h_o_n_e: 1-800-82PSI82
- (703) 620-6651
- FAX: (703) 620-4586
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- PSINet is a US-based commercial, national TCP/IP and OSI
- internetwork available throughout the continental US, Canada
- and Israel, with a wide spectrum of services for the indivi-
- dual and corporate user of electronic information. PSINet
- is currently a T1-based network co-located in telephone com-
- pany facilities; it consists of over two hundred organiza-
- tional networks. The PSINet operations center, located in
- Albany, NY, operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a
- week. (A regional office is located in Santa Clara, Califor-
- nia.) Local phone numbers through PSI's Individual Dialup
- Service (IDS) provides free telnet/rlogin access to any
- PSINet dedicated data line (SCS and CCS) customer sites in
- nearly forty cities throughout the US.
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- TCP/IP packet access is also provided on a dialup basis
- using V.32 modems in more than thirty cities. Three times a
- year a PSINet users group (PSITech) meets to discuss new
- services, new technologies, and operational requirements.
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- PSI's PSILink personal Internet access service is provided
- on a dialup basis in over 170 cities throughout North Amer-
- ica, Europe and the Pacific Rim. The service includes elec-
- tronic mail, USENET News, and anonymous file transfer capa-
- bility. Free PSILink software for the PC, developed by PSI,
- is also provided.
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- September 4, 1992 NNSC Section 5.36, Page 1
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- PSINet provides internetworking services to the NYSERNet
- user community, and also has connections to the NSFNET in
- Ithaca, NY.
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- Any IP host on the Internet may access PSINet sites.
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- There are no restrictions on use of PSINet for any purpose
- (including commercial) by its customers. As a co-founder of
- the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) with the other
- unrestricted-usage commercial providers, this important
- capability is being widely extended throughout the US.
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- Network software research and development is done within PSI
- and is exported at no cost or nominal cost to academic,
- government, and nonprofit organizations. Exported technol-
- ogy includes SNMP, Z39.50, and X.500. PSI provides an
- entry-level UUCP email service and a White Pages service
- available over the Internet (see section 4.3 of the Internet
- Resource Guide). ClariNet News, a live electronic newspaper
- from ClariNet Communications Corp., is also available to PSI
- customers through the PSINet system.
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