HER will provide Ebone with up to 622 Mbps links between the majority of the European cities its serves. Ebone's aggregate European and transatlantic backbone capacity is currently 254 Mbps and 76 Mbps, respectively. TD's first DWDM route, between Paris and Lyon, will be activated by early autumn. CS Telecom France will install the DWDM systems. The current edition of Data Communications magazine provides a checklist of 12 leading Internet backbone providers in Europe.
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Acclaim has been developing embedded application intelligence and bandwidth management in its silicon. Level One is based in Sacramento, California and Acclaim is based in San Jose, California. Acclaim was started in 1995 by Vish Akella, who was also one of the founding members at Kalpana. Financial terms were not disclosed. Thomson-CSF's ATM products have an installed base among governments in Europe.