Telia Becomes a Key Supplier for Europe's Research Network GEANT.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 5, 2001 Telia International Carrier has been appointed one of the main suppliers for the build-up build·up also build-up n. 1. The act or process of amassing or increasing: a military buildup; a buildup of tension during the strike. 2. of the new GEANT GEANT - A simulation, tracking and drawing package for HEP. network. Telia International Carrier has, in competition with 15 other major players, won the contract to provide a significant part of the pan-European research network GEANT with international capacity through a long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. agreement with the co-ordinating partner of the project, DANTE. GEANT is a four-year, 220-million Euro project co-funded by the European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. Commision set up by a Consortium of 27 European national research and education networks National Research and Education Network - (NREN) The realisation of an interconnected gigabit computer network devoted to High Performance Computing and Communications. See also HPPC, IINREN. with DANTE as its co-ordinating partner. Reaching over 3,000 research and education institutions in over 30 countries, GEANT will provide the highest capacity and will offer the greatest geographic coverage of any network of its kind in the world. It will be fully operational in November 2001. "That DANTE chose Telia International Carrier as a supplier shows that we can meet their high demands. DANTE is an important client to us and we are proud to get this prestigeous assignment in today's tough competition," says Lars Rydin, Head of Telia International Carrier. "Telia International Carrier lives up to our highest standards and has what it takes to implement the network. We are very satisfied with their proven technical as well as financial skills and we look forward to working with them," says Dai Davies Dai Davies could be:
Telia International Carrier is to provide network capacity with speeds ranging from 34 Megabits/sec to 10 Gigabits/sec. The deal makes Telia International Carrier one of the main suppliers of capacity to GEANT. "DANTE's demands on the GEANT suppliers are technically immense and the GEANT network is one of the most sophisticated IP backbones to be built in Europe," says Olof Joos, Key Account Manager at Telia International Carrier. About Telia International Carrier: Telia's 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. , Telia International Carrier, provides IP, Capacity, Voice and Infrastructure services. Today, the company is the leading European carrier of transatlantic IP traffic to the USA. Its wholly owned multi-fibre optic network - the Viking Network - provides high capacity bandwidth and offers end-to-end connectivity End-to-end connectivity is a property of the Internet that allows all nodes of the network to send packets to all other nodes of the network, without requiring intermediate network elements to further interpret them. It was for the first time implemented in the CYCLADES-network. round the world. The network is a giant investment intensive venture designed to expand Telia International Carrier to cover Scandinavia, Europe and the USA by 2001. The infrastructure in Europe is designed as a multi-duct network connecting all significant cities with communication, supporting IP, Voice and Data. By the end of 2001, the network will cover 40,000 route kilometres throughout Europe and the USA, connecting 50 major cities. This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/07/05/20010705BIT00540/bit0002.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/07/05/20010705BIT00540/bit0002.pdf |
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