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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:28:27 EDT
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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