From the Lucent website. Story on their business deal with X-Stream. For XSNI longs more GOOD information including their stated business goal of "The X-Stream Network seeks to become the world's largest true portal to the Web." Powerful stuff!
Now, to Dale Baker, it is astonishing to me that you would strive to be a journalist and write an article on a company without doing at least some independant investigation on that company. You admit you got all of your information for the "Tigerinvestor Rag" piece from the due diligence collected by others on this thread. What, did you have a deadline to meet and didn't have time to investigate? Secondly, even though you used our investigation, you didn't even have the courtesy to credit those individuals or at least thank those that unknowingly provided you with the material you used to write your story. What a jerk! To paraphrase a famous quote..." I know journalists. Some journalists are friends of mine. Mr Baker, you are no journalist."
Jeff
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Free ISP, the X-Stream Network, awards Lucent Technologies US $28M data networking contract
FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY MARCH 04, 1999
LONDON - Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced a £17.5 million (US$28 M) agreement to provide Internet access technology and related services to The X-Stream Network, a UK-based Internet service provider (ISP) with about 200,000 subscribers.
X-Stream's Internet traffic will be carried across a powerful network built on Lucent's full range of networking solutions, including products from its acclaimed Cajun( Campus line of local area network switches, as well as its PacketStar® IP portfolio.
"Since the free ISP market has become highly competitive in such a short time, it is imperative that we offer a highly reliable Internet service to our subscribers," said Gregory Sukornyk, chief executive officer and co-founder of The X-Stream Network. "Only Lucent was able to meet all our networking needs, ensuring we achieve the best Internet service, since it was the only vendor that was able to supply us with an end-to-end solution."
"X-Stream is a pioneer in free Internet access and we are very excited that it has selected Lucent to expand its IP network," said Vincent Molinaro, chief operating officer of Lucent's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. "In fact, we feel a special pride because it is proof that we are helping to shape the future of tomorrow's networks."
X-Stream will manage its in-coming data Internet calls using Lucent's PortMaster® 4 Remote Access Concentrators, which meet high-volume, multi-service access requirements. In addition, the company will deploy Lucent's revolutionary PacketStar IP portfolio, which comprises the PacketStar 6400 Series IP Switch and the PacketStar Gateway 1000 solution. Millions of Internet calls can be routed via the IP Gateway 1000, a fault-tolerant, Internet telephony system that also includes the PacketStar IP Manager and PacketStar IP Gatekeeper for managing and routing calls across multiple zones in the network.
All incoming Internet calls will go through the Lucent Managed Firewall, an industry-leading secure, expandable and easy-to-use hardware and software platform. They travel across Lucent's high-capacity Cajun™ P550™ Gigabit Switches either to X-Stream's host applications - provided by Lucent and Sun Microsystems' ISP bundle - or out to the World Wide Web via Lucent's PacketStar 6404 IP Switch, which is designed specifically to support the convergence of data and voice networks and services. The PacketStar 6404 IP Switch offers industry-leading Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities and guarantees up to 64,000 different levels of service, depending on the needs of the business.
"Lucent's portfolio of reliable networking products enhances our edge in the competitive Internet market," said Dr Chirinjeev Kathuria, executive director of The X-Stream Network.
X-Stream Technologies, Inc and its affiliate companies represent one of the most exciting developments in the Internet market today. The X-Stream Network seeks to become the world's largest true portal to the Web and provide advertisers, retailers and companies a unique opportunity to secure a direct access to consumers all over the world via a user-friendly, highly interactive consumer interface. Currently, it has approximately 200,000 subscribers in the UK and will shortly extend its reach overseas. Its operations base is in London, UK and it is registered in Delaware, US.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, visit the company's Web site at lucent.com.
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Lucent Technologies - U.S.
908-953-2679 (office)
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Rebecca Atherley
Lucent Technologies - U.K.
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Email:ratherley@lucent.com
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