WilTel Wins Multiple Deals with Higher Education, Research Networks; Company Delivers WAN Solutions Allowing Customers to Cost-Effectively Expand.TULSA, Okla. -- WilTel Communications WilTel Communications (formerly known as Williams Communications, which was formerly part of The Williams Companies, Inc) is a telco and Tier 2 Internet Service Provider with its own MPLS-enabled OC-192 optical wave division multiplexing backbone network. announced today that it has signed multiple agreements with several higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. and research institutions to provide wide-area networking solutions, including The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) is a nonprofit corporation formed in 1996 to provide high-performance, high-bandwidth networking services to California universities and research institutions. (CENIC CENIC Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California CENIC Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas (Cuba) ), Michigan LambdaRail, WiscNet and Washington University Washington University, at St. Louis, Mo.; coeducational; est. as Eliot Seminary 1853, opened 1854, renamed 1857. It has a well-known medical school and school of social work as well as research centers for radiology, space studies, engineering computing, and the . WilTel has previously announced deals with The Quilt, National LambdaRail National LambdaRail is a high-speed national computer network in the United States that runs over fiber-optic lines, and is the first transcontinental Ethernet network. The name is shared by the organization of research institutions that developed the network, and, to date, plans and 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 State Education and Research Network (NYSERNet). "WilTel has made significant strides in the higher education and research institution market," said Tony Tomae, senior vice president of marketing for WilTel. "These new wins validate our ability to offer a level of creativity and flexibility that other providers can't match. WilTel's suite of data, IP and professional services enable universities and research institutions to focus on their core competencies." WilTel is providing CENIC with dedicated Internet access, dark fiber and construction services, to enable expansion of its statewide footprint and bring new universities and community colleges directly on to its backbone. CENIC designs, provisions and operates robust, high-capacity, next-generation Internet communications services through a cohesive infrastructure for its associates and affiliates in California. "Working with WilTel has made expanding our fiber backbone easy and affordable," said Jim Dolgonas, President and COO of CENIC. "Their expertise and their extensive nationwide network gives us the best of both worlds -- great value on existing fiber and in-house knowledge for new fiber builds." Michigan LambdaRail has selected WilTel for dark fiber, colocation and maintenance services to help the consortium complete its Midwest fiber network. Michigan LambdaRail provides Michigan's three largest public universities (University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges). ) with a high-speed network for advanced research applications and connectivity to other research networks around the world. Washington University in St. Louis “Washington University” redirects here. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). Washington University in St. Louis is a private, coeducational, research university located in St. Louis, Missouri. purchases Internet access and private line services from WilTel on behalf of the St. Louis Internet Access Consortium (SLIAC SLIAC Saint Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ). The consortium provides advanced research (Internet2) and commodity network access in addition to other managed network services to their member universities, research institutions, and incubators in the St. Louis region. WiscNet is a member-governed non-profit cooperative that provides wide-area infrastructure and managed network services to Wisconsin's educational and civic institutions. WilTel was selected to provide Internet access to WiscNet, in part because of WilTel's flexibility and commitment to infrastructure improvements that will provide WiscNet direct access to WilTel's Network Center in Madison, Wisc. WilTel offers an expanding portfolio of products and services tailored to meet the next-generation networking needs of higher education and research institutions. Services include a full suite of IP services over its MPLS-enabled 10 Gbps IP network, which is engineered and managed to consistently surpass industry benchmarks for latency, packet loss and network availability. Other key services for higher education and research institutions include Extended On-Net, which provides direct connectivity to WilTel's backbone in underserved Tier Two and Three markets, and Professional Services, which provides custom solutions ranging from design and construction to operations, field services, fiber location services and many others. For more information, visit www.wiltel.com. About WilTel Communications WilTel Communications, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , provides a diverse set of data, voice, IP, video, managed and professional services, creating advanced wide-area networking solutions for global telecommunications providers, enterprises, the federal government and media and entertainment companies. WilTel's next-generation network infrastructure reaches border-to-border and coast-to-coast with international connectivity to accommodate global traffic. WilTel Communications, LLC is the operating subsidiary of WilTel Communications Group, Inc., a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Leucadia National Corporation. For more detailed information, visit www.wiltel.com. This press release may contain "forward-looking statements." Although WilTel believes any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance that actual outcomes will not be materially different. WilTel assumes no obligation to update those statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions and other factors. The forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information that could lead to material changes in performance is contained in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission made by Leucadia. |
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