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Published Date: Friday, Jan. 7, 2000
Company Name: Infonet
Address: 2160 E. Grand Ave.
El Segundo, Calif. 90245
Main Telephone
Number: 310/335-2600
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.infonet.com
President: Jose A. Collazo
Chief Financial
Officer: Akbar Firdosy
Investor Relations
Contact: Morgan Molthrop
Business number: 310/335-2606
E-mail address: morgan_molthrop@infonet.com
Public Relations
Contact: Mike Radice
Business number: 310/335-2875
E-mail address: mike_radice@infonet.com
Industry: Telecommunications
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: IN/NYSE
Market Makers: Merrill-Lynch
Warburg Dillon Reed
Company description: Infonet Services Corporation is an independent, single-source provider of global, end-to-end managed communications services to multinational enterprises. Infonet's broad range of integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. includes: Internet, intranet, intelligent extranet, wireless/remote access, VSAT (Very Small Aperture satellite Terminal) A small earth station for satellite transmission that handles up to 56 Kbits/sec of digital transmission. VSATs that handle the T1 data rate (up to 1.544 Mbits/sec) are called "TSATs. , voice, data, fax, and messaging and collaboration to support electronic commerce and enterprise-wide systems solutions. Established in California in 1970, Infonet has developed a seamless, end-to-end managed global networking service, offering fast response times, rapid deployment, advanced services and high network availability. With a global "blue-chip" customer base of more than 2,400 multinationals, Infonet continues to serve the world's most prominent enterprises, including 42 percent of the companies listed by Business Week in its Global 500 list for 1999. With 1,200 personnel and annual revenues in excess of $300 million, Infonet is clearly one of the market leaders in global 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. services. Leading companies across all sectors choose Infonet, including Nestle, Thomas Cook For the company, see Thomas Cook AG. Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) of Melbourne, Derbyshire, founded the travel agency that is now Thomas Cook AG. He was brought up as a strict Baptist and joined his local Temperance Society. , Smith Kline Beecham, Volkswagen, Donna Karan, SAP AG, Royal Bank of Canada Bank of Canada Canada's central bank, established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to regulate credit and currency. The Bank acts as the Canadian government's fiscal agent and has the sole right to issue paper money. , Henkel, Deloitte & Touche and Globalstar, among others. With the World Network(R), Infonet's backbone network with points of presence in more than 180 countries and over 3,000 cities worldwide -- and local support in more than 60 countries -- Infonet offers unsurpassed end-to-end, globally-managed, value-added services in a global communications "one-stop-shop." The Gartner, Yankee and META Groups, who recommend Infonet to multinational businesses to meet their global networking requirements, endorse Infonet's credentials. In addition, Infonet's reputation in data networking services is endorsed by major regional and national telcos, including: ACASIA, Deutsche Telecom, KDD KDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (International Conference) KDD Knowledge Discovery in Databases KDD Kokusai Denshin Denwa (Japan) KDD Key Distribution Device , 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. Worldcom, Northern Telecom (Nortel), SAP AG, Telecom Ireland and Telstra. As members of the Infonet Global Solution Provider's programme, these telcos rely on Infonet to carry their data traffic to complement and/or complete their global reach. Infonet is traded publicly on the 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 and Frankfurt stock exchanges Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. under the symbol IN. For more information, visit www.infonet.com. |
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