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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:28:27 EDT
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- From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Subject: SprintLink Commercial Availability Announced (fwd)
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- > From: Robert D. Collet Sprint GSD <rcollet@icm1.icp.net>
- > To: com-priv@psi.com
- > Cc: bdoyle@icm1.icp.net, mkiser@icm1.icp.net
- > Subject: SprintLink Commercial Availability Announced
- >
- > Posted: Wed, Jul 22, 1992 9:53 AM CDT Msg: GGJC-4424-8775
- > >From: CORP.RELATIONS
- > To: sprint.news
- > CC: north.test
- > Subj: Commercial Data Internet Svc.
- >
- >
- >
- > Forwarded message:
- > Contacts: Janis Langley, (O) 202-828-7427; (H) 703-533-3322
- > Vince Hovanec, (O) 202-828-7423; (H) 202-387-1496
- >
- > For Immediate Release
- >
- > SPRINT ANNOUNCES A COMMERCIAL DATA INTERNET SERVICE
- >
- > WASHINGTON, D.C., July 22, 1992 -- Sprint today announced
- > commercial availability of SprintLink(sm), the first commercial
- > Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-based
- > data transmission service offered by a national long distance
- > carrier. SprintLink is a router-based network supporting the
- > TCP/IP protocol suite for data communications.
- > SprintLink is part of the company's expanding service to the
- > business, scientific and research communities. It complements
- > Sprint's frame relay and SprintNet(R) (X.25) services for computer
- > and local area network (LAN) interconnection. SprintLink also
- > provides access to the Internet, a group of about 8,000
- > interconnected data networks in more than 80 countries serving
- > government, academic and research organizations.
- > "SprintLink demonstrates the benefits of technological
- > collaboration between government and industry," said Chris Rooney,
- > president, Government Systems Division. "The extension of this
- > new service will generate commercial applications and will help
- > American business and government be more productive and creative."
- > SprintLink grew from Sprint's expertise in TCP/IP and
- > international networking. In early 1991, Sprint began providing
- > and managing a network to link the National Science Foundation's
- > U.S. computer communications network (NSFnet) with the French
- > scientific and research network, INRIA, at Sophia-Antipoles in
- > southern France, and the Scandinavian scientific and research
- > network, NORDUNet, in Stockholm.
- > Sprint has since added to its NSFnet interconnections links
- > to Japan and the United Kingdom. Additional connections are
- > currently planned to South Africa and to numerous Latin American
- > and Caribbean countries.
- > In February, Sprint introduced SprintLink to government
- > agencies. Since that introduction, SprintLink has attracted more
- > than a half-dozen major customers.
- > During the next year, Sprint plans to add gateways to
- > Sprint's X.25 public data network, SprintNet, to allow SprintNet
- > users to access SprintLink, both nationally and internationally.
- > Sprint will also connect its frame relay service to SprintLink
- > thus allowing Sprint's frame relay customers access to the global
- > Internet and to enable management of routers connected to Sprint's
- > frame relay in an integrated manner. Sprint plans to offer
- > SprintLink on a dial-up basis.
- > SprintLink is accessible via dedicated lines from all of the
- > company's 270-plus domestic points-of-presence. Customers can
- > access the service at speeds ranging from 9.6 kbps to T1 (1.5
- > mbps). Customers also can maximize use of a T1 line by combining
- > multiple voice and data services, including SprintLink, on that
- > line, a feature available only through Sprint. SprintLink is
- > priced at a flat monthly rate according to port speed for each
- > location.
- > Sprint is a member of the board of directors of the
- > Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) Association, a cooperative
- > effort among public data internetwork (PDI) service providers to
- > promote the fair, open and competitive operations of IP-based
- > networking. Other members include General Atomics, which operates
- > CERFnet; Performance Systems International, Inc., which operates
- > PSINet; and UUNET Technologies, Inc., which operates AlterNET.
- > Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications
- > company with $8.9 billion in annual revenues and the United
- > States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Its
- > divisions provide global long distance voice, data and video
- > products and services, and local telephone services to more than 4
- > million subscriber lines in 17 states.
- > - 30 -
- > JL/BG
- > 072292
- >
- > For more information call Marti Kiser at 703-904-2156 or send e-mail to:
- > mkiser@icm1.icp.net
- >
- >
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