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Sprint Welcomes Yahoo! to Silicon Valley Internet Data Center - 📅 - Sprint announced today that Yahoo! Inc., the Web's first online navigational guide, has selected Sprint E|Solutions as its newest provider of hosting services. Yahoo! (yahoo.com) will use the Sprint E|Solutions' Silicon Valley Internet Center in Northern California for its newest deployment of hosting requirements.



Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of ...
SITA to Provide Lufthansa with Intranet Network - 📅 - Lufthansa (lufthansa.com) has signed a three and a half- year agreement with SITA (sita.int) for the design, development and implementation of a fully managed global network infrastructure based on Internet Protocols. The contract, worth $40 million, will be handled by Lufthansa Systems and enables Lufthansa AG to provide access to business applications worldwide.



Connecting staff over 500 sites and across 99 countries, SITA's Intranet
Connect solution will provide high speed ...
interWave to Deploy First Voice and Data Network in Micronesia - 📅 - interWave Communications (iwv.com), a broadband wireless data
network provider, announced yesterday a $4.4 million contract from FSM
Telecommunications Corporation (www.fm) to provide and deploy GSM-based cellular and broadband access network equipment throughout the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).



FSM Telecommunications Corporation, the national communications operator,
provides all telecommunication services for the FSM, which consists of 607
individual islands ...
OSS Companies Race to Provide VPN Provisioning Software: Study - 📅 - Decades ago, enterprises created their own private wide area networks because telecom carriers could not offer a cost-effective wide-area solution. Recently though, carriers have launched IP Virtual Private Networks , a shared networked designed to wean enterprise customers from their venerable "private lines." But whether a significant number of enterprises will jump on the VPN bandwagon or not is still an open question.



According to a new analyst report, the key VPN success ...
eMachines Selects WorldCom Hosting Services - 📅 - WorldCom (worldcom.com), a business data and Internet communications provider, yesterday announced that eMachines, Inc.
(emachines.com), the third largest provider of desktop personal computers sold through U.S. retailers, has selected WorldCom to host and manage the Web site for its new online direct sales channel.



Founded in Sept. 1998, eMachines has shipped more than 4 million personal
computers through leading retailers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France
and Spain, ...
Veritas Software Acquires Kernel Group - 📅 - Further automating its disaster recovery solution, Veritas Software Corporation (veritas.com) today announced it has completed the acquisition of The Kernel Group Incorporated (tkg.com -> hostinger.com), a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas, for an undisclosed amount. TKG is the developer of Bare Metal Restore, a solution designed to fully automate system recovery of Windows and all major UNIX platforms in the event of data corruption or hardware failure.



Research firm Meta ...
Bell Canada to Trial Nortel Networks VoIP with Centrex Customers - 📅 - Bell Canada and Nortel Networks today announced plans to conduct the first North
American trial of Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server, a new Voice
over Internet Protocol product designed to deliver advanced multimedia
services. Beginning this month, Bell will trial the product with its largest
enterprise Centrex customers, enabling them to increase employee
collaboration and improve productivity.



Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server is designed to ...
Yipes Builds National Data Network for Wolverine Trading - 📅 - Yipes Communications, Inc. (yipes.com), a provider of
Ethernet services, announced yesterday that its gigabit optical networks are
delivering real-time market information to offices of Wolverine Trading,
L.P. (wolve.com) in Chicago and San Francisco, with plans to add locations in New York and Philadelphia. Wolverine also uses Yipes for high-speed Internet service and connectivity to its London office over a virtual private network.



Wolverine is a major global equity and ...
Qwest CEO Named Chairman of FCC Advisory Group - 📅 - Qwest Communications International Inc. (qwest.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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-> lumen.com) chairman
and CEO Joseph P. Nacchio has been named to head the Federal Communications
Commission's (fcc.gov) Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC).



In addition to his role as chairman of the NRIC, Nacchio is vice chairman of
the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), a
select group of industry executives that provides advice on security and
emergency preparedness issues to U.S. ...
Lucent Names New President and CEO - 📅 - Lucent Technologies (lucent.com) yesterday named Patricia F.
Russo, formerly of the Eastman Kodak Company, as the company's president and
CEO. Russo, 49, succeeds Henry Schacht, 67, who will serve as chairman of
the company.



Russo most recently served as president and chief operating officer of
Kodak. She now returns to Lucent where she was one of the founding
executives who helped launch the AT&T spin-off in 1996. Russo has spent 20
years in senior executive leadership ...