Carlson Hospitality Worldwide units sign multimillion-dollar data network agreement with MCI.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1995--Officials of MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. and Carlson Companies Carlson Companies (sometimes referred to as Carlson) is a privately held international corporation in the marketing, service, travel, and hospitality industries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States, as of 2005 Carlson Companies owned 5,300 travel are announcing the signing of two multimillion- dollar agreements to provide Carlson's Radisson Hotels Radisson Hotels & Resorts is a worldwide chain of 435 hotels, with a total of 102,000 guest rooms, in 61 countries. The first Radisson Hotel was built in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1909, and was named for the 17th century French explorer Pierre-Esprit Radisson. Worldwide and Friday's Hospitality Worldwide units with an all-new global frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. data network, and the renewal of its voice services relationship with Carlson Hospitality Worldwide. "The Carlson Companies understand the business-building power of new information technologies -- our global frame relay network is just the latest example of that vision," said Cindy Andreotti, vice president of MCI Corporate National Accounts' West region. The five-year data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. agreement calls for MCI to provide an advanced international frame relay data network to Carlson's Radisson Hotels Worldwide and Friday's Hospitality Worldwide units. When the network is completed, Carlson Companies officials project a total of 750 nodes (points of connection to the network) around the globe. The network will utilize MCI HyperStream Frame Relay data transmission service throughout the Americas and Concert Frame Relay service overseas. Concert is a joint venture of MCI and British Telecommunications plc. The new Radisson and Friday's data network will expand and accelerate the exchange of vital business management, marketing and sales information between each of their locations across the country and around the world. The Friday's Hospitality Worldwide portion of the network will be constructed, managed and maintained by MCI's Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. Organization (PSO PSO - Oracle Parallel Server ), a unit of MCI's Integrated Client Services Division (ICSD ICSD Inorganic Crystal Structure Database ICSD International Classification of Sleep Disorders ICSD International Committee of Sports for the Deaf ICSD International Central Securities Depository ) which specializes in voice and data communications outsourcing solutions for business. Radisson Hotels Worldwide has similarly selected MCI ICSD to manage all network equipment maintenance for its hotel installations. In the second agreement, Carlson Hospitality Worldwide has renewed, for 3-1/2 years, its voice services relationship with MCI. Under the agreement MCI will provide Carlson -- including its Carlson Wagonlit Carlson Travel Network Carlson Travel Network can trace its origin back to a travel agency that was founded by Ward Forster in the United States in 1888 and named Ask Mr. Foster. Travel management company -- with MCI Vnet, a virtual private network service; MCI corporate calling cards; and several advanced MCI 800 services, including MCI 800 ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) (Enhanced Call Routing) and international 800 calling. Radisson Hotels Worldwide will continue using MCI 800 exclusively to support its well-known worldwide toll-free reservations number 800/333-3333, which terminates at the Radisson Worldwide Reservation Center in Omaha, Neb. The Carlson Companies Inc., with headquarters in Minneapolis, is the parent corporation of a diversified worldwide group of service corporations operating primarily in the business of travel, hospitality and marketing. With 1994 systemwide revenues of $10.4 billion, Carlson Companies is one of America's largest privately held corporations, with a workforce of more than 100,000 people worldwide. Radisson Hotels Worldwide is part of Carlson Hospitality Worldwide and operates more than 350 full-service plaza hotels, hotels, inns and resorts in 39 countries worldwide. Friday's Hospitality Worldwide, with headquarters in Dallas, is privately held by Carlson Companies. Long a leader and trendsetter trend·set·ter n. One that initiates or popularizes a trend: "The Golden State, ever the trendsetter, reformed its property tax" New York. in casual dining, Friday's Hospitality Worldwide currently operates, franchises and licenses more than 350 T.G.I. Friday's T.G.I. Friday's (often referred to as just "Fridays") is a popular American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining, with over 500 restaurants across the United States, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Australia and the UK, as well as many other countries around the world. , Italianni's and Friday's Front Row Sports Grill restaurants in 44 states and 18 countries. Carlson Wagonlit Travel is one of the two largest travel- management companies in the world, backed by a global network of more than 4,000 locations in 125 countries. Carlson Travel is wholly owned by Carlson Companies and also has headquarters in Minneapolis. The growth in travel and hospitality has made Carlson the largest travel/hotel company in the world. MCI, which has headquarters in Washington, D.C., has expanded from its core long-distance business to become the world's third-largest carrier of international calling and a premier provider of data communications over the vast Internet computer network. With annual revenues of more than $13.3 billion, the company today provides a wide array of consumer and business long-distance and local services, data and video communications, on-line information, electronic mail, network management services and communications software. CONTACT: MCI Telecommunications Les Kumagai, 213/239-2388 6184669@mcimail.com |
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