@Link Networks Names A Chief Information Officer; Addition To the Executive Team Builds On Company's Momentum to Aggressively Employ Communications Services Across "Middle America".Business Editors & Telecommunications Writers BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000 Integrated communications provider @Link Networks today announced that it has appointed William White as its chief information officer (CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. ). This follows last week's announcement of adding Western Division President Jeff Marlow and Midwest Division President Paul Osland to the executive leadership team. "This is another example of the consistently excellent individuals that @Link has added to its senior management team. The strength and quality of their collective experience, leadership and expertise is what makes me more than confident that @Link will be Middle America's premier integrated communications provider. " said Alex Good, @Link chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . As @Link's chief information officer, White will lead the strategic development and integration of the organization's information technology systems across the entire @Link network. In addition, White will oversee the application of information technology in the enhancement of the @Link customer experience, especially in functional areas such as customer service, sales and marketing, Web development and information technology operations Information technology operations, or IT operations, are the superset of all processes and services that are both provisioned by an IT staff to their internal or external and used by themselves, to run themselves as a business. . Before joining @Link, White served as executive director and chief technology officer for US WEST Information Technologies, where he led the Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 compliance program and Enterprise Architecture Center. Previously, White was director of engineering for the software products division of NCR Corporation, and was both director and founder of Teradata's Advanced Software Products. White also gained experience in the software and computing divisions of Boeing and Digital Equipment Corporation. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from Colorado State University Colorado State University, at Fort Collins; land-grant with state and federal support; chartered 1870, opened 1879 as an agricultural college, assumed present name in 1957. There is a veterinary teaching hospital, an agricultural campus, and a research campus. . @Link is currently actively engaged in one of the industry's most aggressive and ambitious network deployments. @Link's deployment plan includes servicing 30 markets in 14 states by the end of 2000, outfitting more than 1,000 telephone central offices with next-generation hardware and software. About @Link Networks @Link Networks, formerly Dakota Services, was founded in 1998 and specializes in broadband data and communications solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses. @Link is a leading provider of secure Virtual Private Network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) solutions and other high-speed data and communications services including video and, soon, voice, via access technologies such as Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ). @Link is building a next-generation packet-switched network utilizing an Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) backbone and advanced switching capabilities that enables the company to offer its business customers extensive Quality of Service and Class of Service capabilities, including highly customized broadband solutions and iron-clad service level agreements and performance guarantees. @Link serves customers in Illinois and Wisconsin and will serve markets in 14 more states by the end of 2000. |
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