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Technology Stocks : METROMEDIA FIBER NETWORK (MFNX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harlock who wrote (318)	6/10/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Respond to of 1983

Metromedia Fiber Network Announces Major Network Expansion in Germany NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1999 -- Company to Build Local "Meshed" Networks in Stuttgart and Cologne, Begins Engineering and Construction on Frankfurt Infrastructure and German National Ring Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (MFNX), a provider of dedicated fiber optic networks within major metropolitan areas, announced today that its German subsidiary, Metromedia Fiber Network GmbH, has received licensing from the German regulatory authorities to construct local fiber optic networks in the metropolitan areas of Stuttgart and Cologne. These networks will enable the company to provide high-bandwidth communications connectivity throughout the region. Additionally, the company said that construction and engineering has begun on the previously announced German national ring connecting thirteen major metropolitan areas and the Frankfurt intracity network. Together with Frankfurt, the expansion to Stuttgart and Cologne further extends Metromedia Fiber Network's German infrastructure, cementing its presence within the German telecommunications marketplace. Utilizing a "meshed" network architecture to penetrate major metropolitan areas, Metromedia Fiber Network places massive amounts of fiber throughout business and financial centers and directly into buildings. These "meshed" networks are made up of multiple overlapping and interconnected rings, providing full redundancy and establishing the ideal network infrastructure for the optical switching platforms of the next century. These networks enable the most advanced communications technologies including Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), gigabit Ethernet, ESCON and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to be deployed. "Today, western Germany has more than 40 million telephones in use and boasts one of the most modern telecommunications networks in Europe for intercity communications. This is resulting in strong demand for an equally advanced local intracity infrastructure to deliver bandwidth-intensive, content-rich applications quickly and cost-effectively," said Howard Finkelstein, president of Metromedia Fiber Network. "Metromedia Fiber Network is addressing this demand, eliminating the bandwidth scarcity problem within the local telecommunications market by delivering high-capacity and completely private networks, with building-to-building connections for our customers." Added Vincent Galluccio, senior vice president and managing director of Metromedia Fiber Network International, "Our meshed network strategy is what differentiates Metromedia Fiber Network from other network providers in Europe. By constructing dense fiber optic networks that not only ring the circumference of major European cities, but provide diversely routed, high-bandwidth connectivity into buildings within the downtown areas, our customers are able to deploy sophisticated data, video, Internet and multimedia applications -- freeing them of the constraints of Europe's legacy copper infrastructure." When complete, the Stuttgart network will encompass up to 32,400 fiber kilometers covering in excess of 75 route kilometers. In Cologne, the completed network will cover up to 34,560 fiber kilometers along 80 route kilometers. The company is deploying supertrunks of up to 432 individual strands of high-capacity fiber in each of its local German networks.

To: Harlock who wrote (318)	6/10/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1983

Harlock, "Any by the way, Metromedia has a partnership with above mentioned Glogal Crossing." And with Comdisco, and with Bell Atlantic, and with... I know that they use the term partnership, Harlock, so this is in no way directed against you personally. It just strikes me as interesting sometimes. I think that the terms partnership and strategic alliance are really very humorous in this context. Against whom, when they are partnering with everyone? Which, come to think of it, is not such a position for MFNX to be in. Regards, Frank Coluccio