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Tuesday November 12 2:36 PM EDT
Acsi Announces Network-To-Network Interface
Agreement With Bell Atlantic
Clec May Now Offer Inter-Lata Frame Relay Service To Customers
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- American Communications
Services Inc , a competitive local exchange carrier offering dedicated and switched
voice and advanced data services, has reached a network-to-network interface (NNI)
agreement with Bell Atlantic Corp . The agreement is designed to promote the mutual
exchange of data traffic between the two companies' networks throughout Bell
Atlantic's eight-state region.
Using the network-to-network Interface standard, ACSI will extend its intra-LATA frame
relay services to include the eight Bell Atlantic states covered under the terms of this
agreement. Bell Atlantic will be able to offer customers requiring a wide-area frame
relay solution ACSI's network as a cost-effective alternative to existing inter-exchange
providers.
"This new NNI agreement with Bell Atlantic will expand ACSI's reach in order to meet
the explosive demand for competitively-priced frame relay services," said Bob Ryan,
president of ACSI's Advanced Data Services business unit. "Frame relay is a
cost-effective, flexible transport vehicle that will support our customers' needs for bursty
LAN-based and multimedia applications."
ACSI's coast-to-coast data network blankets most of the southern United States,
offering total networking solutions to customers who require a combination of
intra-LATA and inter-LATA services. In addition to the Bell Atlantic NNI agreement,
other agreements are currently being negotiated to further extend ACSI's frame relay
reach.
American Communications Services, Inc. is a CLEC that builds its own local fiber
optic networks and offers special access, switched voice and data network solutions
to business and government customers in mid-sized markets principally throughout the
southern half of the U.S. ACSI currently has 19 local networks operating in
Birmingham, Mobile and Montgomery, AL; Tucson, AZ; Little Rock, AR; Columbus,
GA; Lexington and Louisville, KY; Jackson, MS; Las Vegas, NV; Albuquerque, NM;
Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, and Spartanburg, SC; Amarillo, El Paso, Fort Worth,
and Irving, TX. The Company has an additional 11 networks under construction in
Colorado Springs, CO; the Baltimore/Washington corridor in Central Maryland;
Jacksonville, FL; Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport, LA; Kansas City, MO;
Tulsa, OK; Chattanooga, TN; Dallas and Corpus Christi, TX. Subject to available
funding, the Company plans to have a total of 50 cities in operation or under
construction by mid-1998. The Company also currently has 26 data points of presence
(POPs) in operation and plans to have a total of 44 POPs by the end of this year
(including all markets where ACSI has local networks) which will be interconnected via
its ATM backbone to the Internet, other major data centers and other carriers'
networks.
For more information about ACSI, contact www.acsi.net on the Internet.
American Communications Services, Inc. press releases available by Company News
On-Call by fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 111731, or at prnewswire.com.
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