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To: ratan lal who wrote (5042)	7/9/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Satyam Unveils Frame Relay On ATM Ratan: How'bout that INFY,eh? Satyam ain't bad either,I hear they should hit Nasdaq shortly. ======================= satyam.net.in By Uday Lal Pai InternetNews India Correspondent [July 8, 1999--MUMBAI] Satyam Infoway, India's premier private sector Internet Service Provider (ISP) has unveiled a new service ExpressFrame@Satyam, a frame relay protocol run on an ATM backbone. This will enable businesses to interconnect their nationwide offices to suit their individual requirements. Earlier the company was following the TCP/IP protocol. ExpressFrame@Satyam, similar to Wide Area Networking, provides point-to-point dedicated virtual circuits that support multiple protocols with guaranteed bandwidth, irrespective of the traffic, and without actually taking a physical leased line. This service enables customers to take "Permanent Virtual Circuits" (PVC) of required bandwidth between any two points on the Satyam network, depending on their specific traffic requirement. "This is the first time such a superior technology is offered in the country, thus revolutionizing wide area networking(WAN)" said A.Srinivasagopalan, senior Vice-President. He said that the frame relay service offered will be an ideal platform for businesses running mission-critical applications such as enterprise resource planning packages, intranets and database applications, as the speed and performance is much superior to any other services offered today. He claims that the response time was faster than very small aperture terminals (VSATs). Satyam will provide a guaranteed bandwidth to the user, termed as "Confirmed Information Rate" (CIR). This type of service will benefit users with a distributed application environment, where applications are residing in different locations or where all applications reside in a central location, from which information & data needs to be accessed. Under this service offering, the user will have the option to define the minimum CIR and the maximum CIR levels. Under normal traffic conditions, the PVC will operate on minimum CIR levels and when the traffic increases, the CIR expands to accommodate the increase in traffic without encountering congestion or delays. The System has been on trial for three months and has been found to work satisfactorily. Satyam expects to get one-third of its income from its network services as the target segment starts with industries having a turnover from US $ 5 million. As of now, the ExpressFrame@Satyam will be available at Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Satyam Infoway has invested about $ 20 million to install the network across the country, and has been offering network services to corporate customers, of which is the TCP/IP public data network. The network service has a bandwidth capacity of 2 Mbps. The ATM backbone over which ExpressFrames@Satyam is being offered has been build using CiscoIGX Stratracom platform, which enables guaranteed bandwidth to customers. Corporates pay on the basis of port charges and use of bandwidth. Most corporates have leased their equipment from Satyam for the IP network which could be similarly replaced with equipment for frame relay. The upgrade would cost about 20 per cent of the original investment, but the benefits are far more commensurate, claims Srinivasgopalan.

To: ratan lal who wrote (5042)	7/11/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12475

Say Ratan have you an 'ePinion' on this? 'Instant Company' One new Internet idea, two enthusiastic venture capitalists, six founders leaving behind millions at the jobs they quit, $8 million raised before a line of code was written, 12 -- count 'em -- 12 weeks ....... What were you doing 12 weeks ago? Twelve weeks ago was Nirav Tolia's last day on a pretty enviable job. He is 27, and in addition to managing the marketing of Yahoo!'s E-commerce properties, he had represented the company on television more than 100 times. Almost nobody leaves Yahoo!, but Nirav Tolia had just heard a really interesting start-up idea from a friend, Naval Ravikant, who had recently left @Home. It took Tolia about one day to decide, and the following morning he resigned....... nytimes.com epinions.com ================ Internet veterans start online consumer guide By Therese Poletti SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (Reuters) - Several former employees of such successful Internet companies as Yahoo, Excite and Netscape, flush with money from their vested stock options, are launching a new online shopping service that will ask consumers for their e-pinions. ''Everyone has an opinion on something,'' said Nirav Tolia, one of the five co-founders of epinions.com, part of a new wave of Silicon Valley start-ups being founded by employees from first-generation Internet companies. Epinions.com, based in Mountain View, Calif. and formerly known under the code-name Round One, will be an online buying guide based on word-of-mouth opinions contributed by users. It will focus initially on cars, computers, electronics, sports, outdoor travel and books. The reviews will be ranked by other users, Tolia added. ''We are not saying that we are the editorial staff who knows it all, we are at the other end of the spectrum that says consumers know best.'' When it launches in August, the service will offer established consumer buying guides on the Web, and as the community grows, the database of opinions will grow with it. Tolia was sketchy on how the company plans to make money, saying more details will be forthcoming. He said like most content sites on the Web, epinions.com will try to offer services for free to its community of users and sign up sponsorships. When the service is launched, epinions.com will also announce a slew of partnerships, Tolia said. The company was founded in April 1999 by a group of Internet ''veterans'' ranging in ages from 25 to 34, and coming from companies such as Yahoo! Inc., Excite (now ExciteAtHome), and Netscape Communications Corp. (now owned by America Online Inc.) It received $8 million in a first round of venture financing from Benchmark Capital and August Capital. The group also includes some founding members of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur's forum, called Round Zero, a monthly dinner gathering featuring discussions of technology, share ideas and network. ''We thought, we really can't run an organization for entrepreneurs if we are not really entrepreneurs ourselves,'' Tolia said. ''We have been really lucky because the community we built around Round Zero has really helped.'' Through the Round Zero meetings, Tolia learned of two others, including Netscape engineer Ramanathan Guha, who had similar ideas. They all joined forces to start one company. ''It's not an incredibly novel idea,'' Tolia conceded, adding ''It's an idea whose time has come,'' Tolia said biz.yahoo.com