Broadwing Hits the Road for a 22-City Seminar Series to Demonstrate the Advantages of VPN and How it Can Positively Effect Businesses.Business Editors, High Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001 Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Broadwing, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BRW BRW Business Review Weekly (business magazine; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) BRW Business Report Writer BRW Barrow, AK, USA - Barrow (Airport Code) BRW Business Requirement Worksheet ), today announced, in conjunction with Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , a seminar series showcasing its industry-leading 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. ). Businesses will gain a tremendous advantage by attending the seminar. Critical business issues such as maximizing performance of mission critical applications, ensuring user authenticity, privacy and data integrity and prioritizing data traffic through call of service routing will be discussed in detail at the seminars. "These seminars, launched last year in Chicago and Salt Lake City, created a huge response. We decided to repeat the seminars to help educate IT experts from companies of all sizes about the evolving IP VPN, as well as showcase the benefits of Broadwing's services," said Dominick DeAngelo, president of data and Internet services at Broadwing Communications. "A network-based Virtual Private Network solution has become a critical asset in centralizing companies' communications needs, and it is important for businesses to recognize the advantages and how they may be applied to their own companies." Broadwing executives will highlight the benefits of eClass, the industry's first suite of network-based, business-grade IP VPN services. eClass enables customers to have voice, video and data network configurations on one seamless transport, in a manner that is as dynamic and as fast changing as their business needs. Not only does eClass simplify end users' network management and reduce total cost of ownership, but it also supports the ongoing transition of application protocols to IP. Keynote speaker Jeff Phillips For the actor from the GEICO "caveman" commercials, see . Jeff Phillips (born Western Australia) was an Australian TV show host/personality and pop singer of the 1960s to the early 1990s. , senior consultant with TeleChoice, one of the industry's leading telecommunications consulting firms, will also present a detailed analysis of the advantages a VPN solution offers businesses of all sizes. Broadwing, with Nortel Networks as a technology provider, was the first company in the industry to introduce a network-based, business grade IP VPN service with guaranteed application-aware Quality of Service (QoS). Since its launch almost a year ago, Broadwing has continued to expand and make its eClass service more robust. Recently, Broadwing announced its Customer Network Management Services (CNMS CNMS Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) CNMS Customer Network Management Service CNMS Consolidated Network Management System CNMS Compaq Network Management System ) tools, which allow Broadwing's customers to actively self-manage their services online. The twenty-two city seminar series, starting March 6 and running through May 1, spans the nation with a kick-off in Austin, Texas. For more information or to register, please visit www.broadwing.com/VPN or call 1-800-238-2426. About Broadwing Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadwing Inc. (NYSE:BRW), combines unparalleled customer service with the industry's most advanced and flexible 18,500 mile next-generation fiber optic network and award-winning IP backbone, to create data and internet solutions that are innovative, reliable, and provide businesses a competitive advantage. Broadwing will be the first provider with a fully deployed optical network and sets the standard for customer accountability with the industry's only Installation Guarantee. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation). Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. , and Austin, Texas, with 6,000 employees in 56 sales and service offices across the country, Broadwing can be found on the web at www.broadwing.com. Seminars Will Be Held in the Following Cities: Austin, TX Boston, MA Chicago, IL Cincinnati, OH Columbus, OH Dallas, TX Houston, TX Independence, OH Indianapolis, IN Jacksonville, FL Lexington, KY Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , CA Louisville, KY Nashville, TN New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY Orlando, FL Paramus, NJ Philadelphia, PA Phoenix, AZ Reston, VA San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA Towson, MD |
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