SPRINT INTRODUCES GLOBAL INTERNET VPN SERVICE
Sprint will introduce a Global Internet VPN service in November that reaches over 30 countries via Global One, its worldwide joint venture with Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. The Global Internet VPN service will run over Sprint's OC-48 based Internet infrastructure. The service will provide guaranteed service levels for packet loss and delay variation. By Q1 2000, Sprint will offer customers secure, Web-based tools to track the performance of the Global Internet VPN service and its adherence to the service level guarantees. Sprint selected Nortel Networks to supply its Contivity Extranet Switch as the customer premise equipment for ensuring secure tunneling, bandwidth management, authentication and data integrity. Sprint also selected Network Alchemy to provide its IP clustered technology for ensuring uninterrupted service even during upgrades and periods of extremely high traffic. http://www.sprint.com/Stemp/press/releases/9909/9909100857.html

Network Alchemy, a venture backed start-up based in Santa Cruz, California, offers a line of CryptoCluster VPN Servers based on Intel platforms running a proprietary operating system optimized specifically to provide network security services. The Alchemy operating system allows multiple servers to be joined in a cluster with load balancing of VPN processing and failover features. http://www.network-alchemy.com/
Sprint, September 10, 1999

Last month, Global One announced an IP VPN service provisioned over an MPLS core infrastructure. QoS features of the network will support real-time applications, such as voice over IP, fax over IP, multicast overlays, video streaming and collaborative audio/video applications. Global One also offers separate Intranet VPN services based on Frame Relay and ATM transport. http://www.globalone.net/en/press/08_03_99a.html

PICUS COMMUNICATIONS SELECTS COPPERCOM'S VOICE/DSL SOLUTION
Picus Communications, a CLEC based in Virginia, selected CopperCom's Voice over DSL solution for deployment in several mid-Atlantic cities. The contract is worth $24 million in the first year and covers deployment of 126,000 voice lines, plus high-speed data, over DSL to small and medium size business and residential users. The network will use CopperCom's Gateway and the MXR customer premise equipment, as well as the Nokia D50 Speedlink DSLAM. The Picus Voice/DSL service will be available initially in the Hampton Roads, VA area, as well as Richmond, VA, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC. The deployment will start as early as November 1999. CopperCom's CopperComplete solution enables delivery of 16 toll-quality voice lines and data over a single copper pair in the localloop. The solution works as an overlay for DSL networks, using ATM AAL2 to guarantee its toll quality voice connections. To ensure voice quality, CopperCom provides either PCM or 32K ADPCM with support for echo cancellation. CopperCom's carrier-class Gateway can support from four to 44 T1 connections for 1056 simultaneous compressed calls in a single shelf. Using oversubscription, the capacity of a single gateway can increase up to eight-fold. Multiple gateway chassis can also be stacked. CopperCom's customer premise device is a full DSL data router that also supports analog connections from any telephone, fax machine, key system, and PBX. The units are available in 4-port and 16-port models. CopperCom is a start-up based in Santa Clara, California. Picus, which currently has over 10,000 telephone customers and over 20,000 local Internet customers, recently signed an interconnection agreement with Bell Atlantic. http://www.coppercom.com/home.html
http://www.picus.com/nonflash/index.htm
CopperCom, September 13, 1999

ECI TELECOM LAUNCHES 'MINI HI-TV' FOR MPEG2/ATM
ECI Telecom announced a mini Hi-TV unit that performs real time MPEG-2 4:2:2 compression and ATM adaptation, multiplexing and network termination. The integrated unit, which is designed for WAN interconnection of TV facilities such as broadcast stations, network operations centers and production studios, supports up to 3 TV channels for real-time applications, plus TV File Transfer (based on its IP-over-ATM capability). ECI-Telecom already offered an 11-channel model of the Hi-TV. The Hi-TV's modular architecture accepts plug-in, hot-swappable TV interfaces, including SDI, ATSC, DVB ASI/SPI and SDTI. Hi-TV's IP Over ATM feature additionally includes broadband file transfer over the same WAN line, as well as remote machine control of VTRs and other RS-422 devices across the network, in-band management of all Hi-TV systems in the network from a single management console. http://www.ecitele.com/
ECI Telecom, September 10, 1999

QUANTUM BRIDGE SETS SIGHTS ON OPTICAL ACCESS SOLUTIONS
Quantum Bridge Communications, a start-up based in North Andover, Mass., received $16 million in a second round investment from Atlas Venture and first round investors New Enterprise Associates and Lazard Technology Partners. Quantum Bridge is developing carrier class optical access solutions. Specific product plans have yet been disclosed. The company was founded in October 1998 and has raised more than $22 million in venture funding to date. http://www.quantumbridge.com/
Quantum Bridge, September 12, 1999

NEC TO DEVELOP CACHING SERVERS BASED ON NOVELL'S CACHING SYSTEM
NEC Corporation is developing an Internet caching server for the Japanese market based on the Novell Internet Caching System. The NEC Express 5800 Series caches will scale the Internet performance needs of small branch offices to the largest enterprises and Internet Service Provider (ISP) network operations centers. Initial shipments are expected in Q4. NEC is Novell's first Japanese licensee for its caching architecture. http://www.novell.com/
Novell, September 10, 1999

HYDRAWEB INTRODUCES COOKIES-BASED PRIORITIZATION OF WEB REQUESTS
HydraWEB Technologies introduced a "HydraCookie" load balancing system that prioritizes Web visitors and routes their requests to designated web sites or servers based on cookies. HydraWEB's load balancers identify the cookies in incoming requests, analyzes them, and then forwards the request to predefined servers. If there are multiple servers for the request, HydraWEB load balances between them. http://www.hydraweb.com/z5_pr_10sep99.html HydraWEB, September 10, 1999

AOL NAMES SUN EXEC AS ITS NEW CTO
America Online named William J. Raduchel as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), replacing Marc Andreessen, who is shifting to a part time advisory role. Raduchel previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for Sun MicroSystems. AOL said it will continue to pursue an "AOL Anywhere" strategy with connectivity beyond the desktop. http://www-db.aol.com/corp/news/press/view?release=732
AOL, September 10, 1999

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: ADVANCED ATM INTEGRATION -- ATLANTA
A conference entitled "Advanced ATM Integration: Enabling ATM in Next-Generation Public Networks" will be held December 8th to 9th at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. Topics to be covered include ATM as a network access technology, ATM as a core infrastructure, IP/ATM integration, VoIP over ATM, and the use of MPLS in IP/ATM networks. Vendors and carriers presenting at the conference include 2nd Century Communications, Bell Atlantic, Intermedia, Electric Lightwave, Williams Communications, Cerent/Cisco Systems, FICON Technology, FORE Systems, Newbridge Networks Nortel Networks, and Telcordia. The conference costs $1,995. Registration information is available by email request. For further conference information, contact:

 ICM Conferences
Arlene Soumillac
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SVNL TEST REPORT: ADAPTEC'S SERVER CLASS ADAPTER CARDS
The Silicon Valley Networking Lab released a competitive performance evaluation of Adaptec's network server class of adapter cards. The tests results show that Adaptec's single port NIC outperforms Intel and 3Com's single port adapters; Adaptec's failover software does not degrade performance during a primary fault; and that Adaptec's card shows real advantage on a 64-bit PCI bus when significant competing traffic exists. The full test report and methodology is online. http://www.svnl.com/test_lab_reports.htm  
SVNL, September 13, 1999

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