Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan &) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: New Internet Management Company. Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 15:13:37 GMT References: <2221@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: na Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 64 In-Reply-To: jhenders@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 30 Sep 90 10:50:30 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: colossus.cs.psu.edu In article <2221@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes: John> Has anyone else read the recent Abernathy article reprinted in CUD 2.05 John> yet. It seems to be up to his usual low standard. It describes a new company John> being formed to bring "Fortune 500 management" to the Internet. One quote that John> particularlly stuck out for me was how the Internet has " become a frequent John> companion to controversy ". Now is it just me, or does it seem like the only John> controversy lately about the Internet been Joe Abernathy's articles? John> You'll be happy to hear that the "computer network matrix" has become John> the " favored arena for hackers ". Also Joe reports, the " IBM syle " John> management plans to bring " day to day management and monitoring to the John> network " and bring the " first formal fee structure on the network " John> I did not read the article, but I did find this on my desk the other day. (Please excuse any typos as it is still early and I am not yet fully awake. Grammatical errors have been reproduced as found. :-) IBM US News Bulletin Dateline - September 18, 1990 IBM, MERIT AND MCI FORM NEW ORGANIZATION TO EXPAND NATIONAL COMPUTER SUPERHIGHWAY IBM, MCI Communications Corporation, and Merit, Inc., a consortium of eight Michigan universities, has announced the establishment of Advanced Network and Services, Inc. (ANS), a new company that will help propel high-speed computer networking into the next century for the nation's research and education communities. The new not-for-profit organization will manage and operate the federally funded National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) backbone, under subcontract to Merit, as well as provide a broad spectrum of networking services to researchers and educators in universities, federal laboratories and the private sector. These services range from basic network monitoring to complete networking connectivity and support. ANS will begin to connect additional educational, industrial and government institutions to the nation's largest public computer superhighway at speed up to 45 megabits per second. ANS is being established to help build and expand current networking capabilities to meet the skyrocketing deman by the nation's scientists, engineers and academics for high-speed networking. The goals of ANS are: * To assist in the expansion of the existing national network so that it broadly serves the research and education community. * To increase the speed and capability of the network, maintaining it at the leading edge of technology. * To provide the highest quality network and services in helping to advance research and education. IBM and MCI are providing ANS with initial funding, as well as leading edge technology. Merit, Inc. will add its expertise in network operations, engineering and planning, in addition to network information services. IBM, MCI and Merit have been partners in NSFNET since 1987. Headquaters for ANS are in Elmsford, Ney York. -- Dan Ehrlich /Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176