AT&T-Unisource has been awarded a TEN-34 contract implementation of high speed Internet Network.HOOFDDORP/BRUSSELS, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 1997-- AT&T-Unisource Communications Services, the European joint venture of AT&T and Unisource, has been awarded a contract to build a major part of the high-speed Internet See broadband. network, as supported by the European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community in a project called TEN-34. The trans-European network will be predominantly based on ATM technology, with a capacity of at least 34Mbit/s. This AT&T-Unisource part of the network will initially connect Spain, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, The Netherlands, The officially Kingdom of The Netherlands byname Holland Country, northwestern Europe. Area: 16,034 sq mi (41,528 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 16,300,000. Capital: Amsterdam. Seat of government: The Hague. Most of the people are Dutch. United Kingdom, and the Nordic countries. Increasingly National University Networks in Europe are setting up a high speed national computer network infrastructure. This enables researchers to use sophisticated multimedia and real-time applications (e.g. video-conferencing) on the network. A high speed interconnect NVIDIA's High Speed Interconnect (often abbreviated to 'HSI') chip was used in their early PCI Express graphics cards, where it acted as a bridge between the PCI Express connection to the computer and the natively AGP GPU. facility between these national Superhighways was previously missing, which seriously hampered international collaboration between European researchers. The four parties that have awarded AT&T-Unisource the contract are the National Research Networks RedIRIS, NORDUnet, SURFnet and UKERNA UKERNA - United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association . Unisource has been facilitating the National Research Networks, of which universities and research institutes are the main beneficiaries, with international services since 1991. "We have been working on the improvement of the network together with the European Commission, the TEN-34 consortium, and DANTE, coordinating partner in the consortium, who are all involved in this pan-European project", says Jan van der Kraats, Commercial Director Unisource Business Networks Belgium. The TEN-34 service is an interconnect facility Interconnect facility: In a communications network, one or more communications links that (a) are used to provide local area communications service among several locations and (b) collectively form a node in the network. between the National Research Networks in Europe, co-funded by the European Commission. It will offer a high-speed pan-European backbone to complement an increasing number of high speed national backbones. The service delivered by AT&T-Unisource will be an IP Managed Backbone Service with advanced features, operated over AT&T-Unisource's IP pan-European network. "TEN-34 means a very important step in the co-operation between the European National Research Networks and helps us achieve a new level of collaboration between ourselves and the major European telecom operators, who are all involved in the project. TEN-34 will be one of the major networks in the network of networks that form the global Internet", says Dr. David Hartley, Chief Executive of UKERNA and chairman of the TEN-34 consortium. AT&T-Unisource Communications Services AT&T-Unisource Communications Services is the joint venture company founded by AT&T and Unisource to provide a portfolio of seamless, value-added international voice, data and messaging services for companies operating in Europe. Based in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, the company provides full access and service capabilities in most European countries and around the world. In Europe AT&T-Unisource's professional Internet Access See how to access the Internet. Services have gone through a rapid expansion. AT&T-Unisource now offers three packages of internet access services specifically designed to meet the requirements of corporations, Internet Services Providers (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) and Internet Information Providers. Customers can link up directly to the company's backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. via 180 high speed POPs (Points of Presence) in 13 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. This coverage is scheduled to double to 26 countries by the middle of next year. DANTE DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe Ltd.) is a not-for-profit company in Cambridge (United Kingdom), which organises and manages advanced pan-European network services for and on behalf of European (national) research networks. NORDUnet NORDUnet is the Nordic Internet highway to research and education networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and provides the Nordic backbone to the Global Information Society. NORDUnet is operated and managed by NORDUnet A/S, a company owned by the national networks for research and education in the Nordic countries. SURFnet bv SURFnet bv is providing advanced network services to the scientific and education community in the Netherlands. It manages and operates a high speed national network to interconnect the local networks of its customers with links to the other National Research Networks and the global Internet. UKERNA/JANET JANET is the United Kingdom's academic and research network which links Universities, Colleges and research organisations throughout Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. and Northern Ireland. JANET is operated and managed by the JNT JNT Jewish New Testament (Bible translation) JNT Joint Network Team JNT Java Network Technology (National Semiconductor and Infomatec) JNT John Nathan-Turner Association Ltd., a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee trading as UKERNA (United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association) under a contract from the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. . RedIRIS RedIRIS is the Spanish academic network for research and development funded by the National Plan for R&D (Plan Nacional de I+D I+D Investigación y Desarrollo (Spanish: Research and Development) ) and managed by the Centro de Comunicaciones CSIC (Customer Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "c-sick." Another term for ASIC, which was coined by Motorola. Some feel this is a more accurate description of an ASIC chip. See ASIC. RedIRIS which depends on the Scientific Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas). Note to the editor: More information on AT&T-Unisource Communications Services is available through NEWSdesk on http://www.newsdesk.com More information about TEN-34 is available on www.dante.net CONTACT: Cees Steijger AT&T-Unisource +31 23 569 7902 (tel) +31 23 569 7911 (fax) |
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