IBM archives reveal clues to differences between Global Services and Global Networking:
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IBM Global Services is the world's largest information technology services provider. IBM's fastest growing business segment has an unsurpassed breadth of capabilities, and more than 116,000 professionals helping companies of all sizes solve real business problems and create new business opportunities.
The following SBC announcement refers to IBM's POPs:
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Southwestern Bell Internet Services' expansion into 13 new communities takes advantage of IBM Global Network points of presence (POPs) and routes customers to Southwestern Bell's Internet services. Customers benefit from Southwestern Bell's fast and reliable Internet network. The network features a 10-to-1 line to modem ratio which makes its capacity twice that of most other providers, 33.6 kilobits-per-second (kbps) access on every modem port which allows for faster connections, and an uninterruptible power supply that could support the network for weeks after a power outage.
IBM and NTT:
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(TOKYO, February 24, 1997) ... IBM, the world's leading information technology company, and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT), the world's largest telecommunications company, today announced a strategic agreement to jointly study network computing applications and services in Japan.
Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will examine potential ways to bring together their network infrastructures, platforms, technologies and complementary skills to advance network computing for their customers in Japan.
Here the Service Unit comes together with the Networking Unit. IBM Internet Connection explained:
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IBM Global Services provides IBM Internet Connection over the IBM Global Network, which has more than 830 local dial access points in nearly 50 countries. IBM hosts Web content for more than 200 enterprises, such as the city of Copenhagen, Heineken, Michelin, Mobil Oil, Smith Barney and The New York Times. It enables comprehensive electronic business and Internet solutions for such economic sectors as health, higher education, insurance, retail distribution and petroleum industries to be delivered over dial or secure, high-speed leased lines. While primarily serving the business-to-business market, IBM Global Services also offers Internet services to individuals. |
