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'New' Compaq preps for Net future
By Charles Babcock, Inter@ctive Week Online
September 21, 1998 5:08 AM PT
Walk into the historic Telephone Company Building in downtown Palo Alto, Calif., and you'll find enough switching and routing gear to serve the needs of four telephone carriers and 44 Internet service providers.
The forest of equipment with cables hanging overhead like vines moves an estimated 25 percent of all Internet traffic. But what is almost invisible to the unsuspecting visitor is the identity of the Internet company that manages the facility.
'Across Compaq, there's an enormous amount of work under way to deliver the value of Internet technologies.'
-- Mark Linesch, director of Compaq's Internet business solutions.
Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ) inherited the site when it acquired Digital Equipment Corp. But, like the Digital purchase itself, the Palo Alto Internet Exchange is a sign that Compaq is determined to change from a supplier of desktop and portable computers into a broad supplier of systems for enterprises. And no system is more complex than the Internet.
"Across Compaq, there's an enormous amount of
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