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Sprint SONET on the Way
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 14:02:02 -0500
From: JOHN.D.GRETZINGER () sprint sprint com Date: 26 Jan 94 21:22:10-0500 Subject: Sprint SONET on the Way OK, so MCI says they are going to do this some day; well here is the time table for Sprint to have SONET in place. Forwarded message from PC SprintMail: Contact: Jim Bowman (O) 913-967-3675 Gerry Simone (O) 202-828-7423 SPRINT TO PROVIDE SONET ACROSS NORTH AMERICA FOR INTERNATIONAL CARRIERS WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 22, 1994 -- Sprint will provide SONET (synchronous optical network) transit service across North America by the end of 1994 for the 31 European and Asian carriers forming a multilateral group, the company told representatives of the group in meetings this week. At that time Sprint's international dedicated transit route through North America will be predominantly SONET, and it will be all-SONET in 1995, when synchronous digital hierarchy -- the international equivalent of SONET -- cables will connect the United States with both Europe and Asia. SONET is the emerging transport standard of the Information Superhighway. It carries vastly larger quantities of traffic than most current transport equipment, at speeds up to 20 times faster. Sprint announced its SONET deployment plan as part of its overall broadband strategy in September 1992, and began deploying SONET equipment on its network in 1993. Sprint's SONET deployment is increasing network capacity for rapidly developing international and domestic traffic loads, moving voice, image, data and video simultaneously over Sprint's fiber-optic network already in place. In addition, Sprint's broadband network architecture, combined with deployment of an advanced form of SONET equipment only now becoming available, provides for unprecedented levels of reliability. Representatives of the multilateral group met with Sprint International officials this week at the company's headquarters outside Washington, D.C., to review progress and to confirm schedules and revenue projections for the next two years of a three-year pact signed last March. By that agreement, the international carriers receive preferred rates and service guarantees for transit of international calls across North America. Sprint's price and performance guarantees are available to all signatory companies of the multilateral group for a period of 25 years, a significant benefit for smaller companies that now can enjoy the same volume pricing and associated benefits previously only available to the largest carriers. The value to Sprint is estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. "The technology and capacity of Sprint's advanced fiber-optic network allows us to provide many services for other carriers, including dedicated transit services for overseas carriers since 1989," said Paolo Guidi, president of Sprint International. "Many of the companies in the multilateral group have been Sprint customers for years, and they already were familiar with Sprint's superior quality," Guidi added. "Now, they will see us take that quality to a speed and performance level as yet unattained by other global carriers." Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications company with more than $10 billion in annual revenues and the United States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Its divisions provide global long distance voice, data and video products and services, local telephone services to more than 6 million subscriber lines in 19 states, and cellular operations that serve 42 metropolitan markets and more than 50 rural service areas. John D. Gretzinger Network Engineer Rockwell Support Team +1.310.797.1187 +1.310.430.1761 (FAX)
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