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FRAMINGHAM (02/25/2000) - BellSouth Corp. has chosen Telco Systems' EdgeLink 300 integrated access device as a new customer premises equipment option for its MegaLink Channelized T-1 managed service. The BellSouth service concentrates voice, data and video traffic over a single T-1 link. The EdgeLink 300 also provides the option of a dual T-1 for up to 48 separate 64K-bps voice or data channels. Telco, of Norwood, Mass., is owned by World Access in Atlanta, but is in the process of being sold to BATM Advanced Communications, an Israeli internetworking systems company.

NaviSite is expanding its streaming media service capabilities through acquisitions and partnerships. NaviSite, a Web-hosting and application service provider in Andover, Mass., announced last week it is buying ClickHear, a streaming media professional services company. Terms were not disclosed.

NaviSite also announced agreements with Activate.net, an Internet audio and video service provider, and with iBeam Broadcasting, a satellite streaming media service provider. NaviSite plans to combine service offerings from Activate.net and iBeam into its high-end Web-hosting services.

NaviSite: www.navisite.com

PSINet Inc. last week announced the launch of a new venture capital program called PSINet Ventures. The company will provide early to midrange financing for fledgling application service providers, content service providers, e-commerce companies and the like. The fund will be worth a total of about $1 billion, including the value of Internet services provided to portfolio companies and $100 million in cash.

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