BBN Planet expands Internet services in California; BBN Internet subsidiary expands connection and value-added services in Southern California, opens new Palo Alto Network Operations Center.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--BBN Planet Corp., a subsidiary of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. ), today announced the expansion of its Internet access See how to access the Internet. and value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. offerings in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and the opening of a new Internet Network Operations Center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) in Palo Alto. The new NOC and expanded service offerings are part of the company's on-going nationwide rollout of value-added Internet services backed by regional support. "As the leading Internet services provider focused exclusively on the business and organizational market, we constantly strive to improve our quality of service," said Paul R. Gudonis, 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. of BBN Planet Corp. "To keep pace with the rapid growth of the Internet in California, we are expanding our regional Network Operations Center and doubling the size of our local technical and support staff. This will enable us to continue to provide the kind of worldwide end-to-end Internet troubleshooting and problem resolution that only we can." The announcement was made at the Internet World trade show, where BBN Planet will demonstrate its Internet access and value-added service capabilities in Booth #927. The show runs April 10 through 12 at the San Jose Convention Center. The new Palo Alto NOC, which went live last week, is located at 3801 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. BBN Planet maintains four Network Operations Centers around the country, including facilities in Cambridge, Mass., College Park, Md., Atlanta and Palo Alto; These centers provide 7-days-a-week, 24-hours-a-day Internet network monitoring, security, and customer service and support for business customers. As the only Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. currently offering worldwide end-to-end problem trouble-shooting and resolution, BBN Planet offers an unrivalled level of customer service for businesses. BBN Planet's NOCs enable the company to offer managed Internet connectivity and its Internet Site Patrol(SM) managed security service. "We are committed to enhancing the service offerings available to our customers in Los Angeles, San Diego and throughout Southern California, where the demands for business Internet services is growing rapidly," said John Rugo, vice president and western region general manager of BBN Planet. "In June, we will be providing them with dedicated leased lines through local points-of-presence (POP) connections," he added. The company's recently introduced InterNET Advantage(SM) managed connection service provides uniformly priced and packaged Internet access and value-added services from BBN nationwide. The company is taking orders and provisioning Internet service through more than 500 local access points around the country. BBN Planet also recently announced a new 10Mbps Internet network service which is available in Silicon Valley, with nationwide availability slated for later this year. The new high-bandwidth connectivity provides business customers with higher capacity and faster access to critical Internet resources, complementing BBN Planet's T1 and T3 offerings. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., BBN Planet Corp. is the nation's leading provider of managed Internet access and value-added services for businesses and organizations. Last fall the company celebrated the 25th anniversary of its development of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as , which led to the development of the global Internet. Over 1,000 leading companies and educational, medical and research institutions nationwide connect to the Internet via BBN Planet's operations. BBN Planet's Internet services include managed security services, around-the-clock network operations, end-to-end problem resolution, comprehensive problem tracking, backbone management, training and consulting and ongoing configuration management services. For its fiscal year ended June 30, 1994, BBN had revenue of $196 million. -0- InterNET Advantage and Site Patrol are service marks of BBN Planet Corp. CONTACT: Brenda Nichols (for BBN Planet Corp.), 508/369-2106 URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.bbnplanet.com/) Internet: parker-nichols@bbnplanet.com |
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