nice wins
1. Price Waterhouse Mexico Selects Bay Networks' Routers and Accelar Routing Switches; New Network to Increase Quality of Communications to Customers
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 1998--Bay Networks, Inc.(R); (NYSE:BAY) today announced that Access Node router (AN(R)), Access Stack Node router (ASN(TM)) and Accelar(TM) routing switch products have been installed in the Price Waterhouse Mexico network. Bay Networks, with partners Comnet and Avantel, worked together to provide the winning solution of products and services for Price Waterhouse Mexico.
Price Waterhouse is an international consultant business with 26 consultant firms around the world and is recognized for its worldwide customer services. Price Waterhouse Mexico, one of the 26 consultant firms, employees 1500 people in 11 states within the country.
"The most important issue for Price Waterhouse is being in permanent touch with everybody, whether its clients or employees, from anywhere in the world," said Luis Gerardo Diaz, Price Waterhouse marketing, positioning, and communications (MPC) partner. "This is the true value of the network."
"We are pleased that Price Waterhouse has selected us for their new Frame Relay network," said Gerardo Chavez, Latin America North Manager, Bay Networks. "Our products combined with our partners Comnet, for system integration, and Avantel, for frame relay services, provided an end-to-end winning solution that is already paying off for our customer."
2. Bay Networks Provides Campus Backbone Solution for Nationwide Utility Network in China
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 1998--
The Ministry of Power in China to Deploy a New Network
Environment with Country Wide Access using Adaptive Networking
Bay Networks Inc., (NYSE:BAY) supporting its Adaptive Networking Strategy, today announced that the Ministry of Power in China, will deploy a leading edge backbone solution as part of the China Electric Power Network. Planned over a two-year period this is a significant win for Bay Networks following intense competition from six other networking vendors. Bay Networks China joined with key partner Anixter Asia Pacific to provide the winning solution for the Ministry of Power.
With over 2,000 Local Area Networks and 2 million plus employees the Ministry of Power in China represents one of the largest sites for power generation in the world. The networking challenge was to design and build a high speed network infrastructure that harnesses the power of emerging network technologies and support distributed computing to over thirty-four branches within two years. The key requirements being to link the critical networks to a central core backbone immediately with products that were scalable for a countrywide office automated network in the future.
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