WorldCom Bolsters International Network Services
WorldCom Inc. is planting new stakes in foreign soil as it expands its ATM, frame relay and private-line networks.
WorldCom Inc. is planting new stakes in foreign soil as it expands its ATM, frame relay and private-line networks.
USinternetworking Inc. has announced that Christopher McCleary is stepping down as CEO, but will continue as the application service provider's chairman of the board of directors.
Now that the WorldCom Inc. deal to buy Sprint Corp. is dead, Sprint is busily looking to restrengthen relationships with employees, customers and Wall Street analysts. Other potential suitors are fewer now that Deutsche Telekom AG announced its intentions to buy VoiceStream Wireless Corp., eliminating DT's want of Sprint's wireless business. Sprint Business President Len Lauer recently talked with Network World's Senior Editor Denise Pappalardo about the repercussions of a deal gone wrong and where the carrier might go from here.
Equant Network Services Inc. earlier this week announced it now supports off-net voice-over-IP calls for multinational business customers.
Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group is planning to let customers access their corporate networks from remote or home offices over Sprint's wireless multichannel multipoint distribution service (MMDS) network. Sprint is also developing wireless LAN features that make it easier for users to connect to Sprint's network.
WorldCom and Sprint yesterday said they are walking away from the troubled merger deal announced nine months ago.
Genuity Corp. is jazzing up its dedicated Internet access service-level agreements this week.
WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernie Ebbers pretty much admitted his company's deal with Sprint Corp. is dead.
Not surprisingly John Sidgmore, vice chairman and chief operating officer at WorldCom Inc., hasn't been in a very good mood over the past few weeks. But despite MCI WorldCom's legal and regulatory wrangling, Sidgmore kept his date last week as one of the keynote speakers at Broadband 2000 in San Jose. Afterwards he took a moment to speak with Network World Senior Editor Denise Pappalardo about MCI WorldCom's merger trouble.
Genuity Inc., formerly GTE Internetworking, is trying to make it easier for businesses to buy managed security services through the release of new service bundles.
AT&T is kicking its IP efforts up a notch with internet backbone and service upgrades that offer users more speed, security and flexibility.
Earlier this week Robert Hartnett was quietly named UUNET Technologies Inc.'s new president and CEO.
Those customers looking for bargains on dedicated Internet access are most likely to find the best deals on the high end of the bandwidth spectrum.
This time last year Qwest Cyber.Solutions - the Qwest Communications International Inc. and KPMG Peat Marwick LLP application service provider (ASP) joint venture - was gearing for launch. Network World Senior Editor Denise Pappalardo recently talked with John Charters, president and CEO, about the company's first year and the condition of the ASP market.
Akamai Technologies Inc. is launching a service this week that will let business users better manage their global Web site content.