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To: MangoBoy who wrote (251)	11/16/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: silicon warrior	Respond to of 369

Now we all look prescient based on our early November "bottom" call. Gotta win a couple every once in a while.

To: MangoBoy who wrote (251)	11/17/1999 9:23:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 369

[GST Telecommunications Introduces Enhanced Business Services] Blends Local Dial Tone Products and Features for High-Performance Business Communications VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- GST Telecommunications, Inc., a leading Integrated Communications Provider (ICP) in California and the western United States, today announced the introduction of its new Enhanced Business Services, a unique local dial tone product blending Centrex and Basic Business services plus a host of standard and optional features into one high-performance solution for small- and medium-sized business customers. Enhanced Business Services offers a new alternative to traditional business dial tone solutions by bundling four popular calling features -- Caller ID, Call Transfer, Conferencing, and Hunting -- plus one additional feature of the customer's choosing, all at a flat rate per business line. Additional a la carte features, including the Company's Vantage Voice Mail and highly competitive long distance rates, are available as options. Enhanced Business Services will also be offered as a local dial tone option in GST's suite of PowerFlex integrated communications packages. Also designed for small- and medium-sized businesses, PowerFlex provides local dial tone, long distance, data, and Internet services over a single digital T-1 connection, bringing advanced communications capabilities to those business customers that don't want to pay for separate voice, data, and Internet connections. "The blending of our Basic Business and Centrex dial tone services into one simple yet robust product is a win-win solution for GST and our customers," stated Joe Basile, president and chief executive officer of GST. "Our customers get the advanced business telecommunications features they need in one powerful, easy to understand, and competitively priced package. At the same time, combining two products into one allows GST to dramatically streamline its ability to process, provision, and install new orders, and provide service to existing customers. Enhanced Business Services is the solution for any business that wants flexible, customized, worry-free solutions to their business telecommunications needs." The new product provides exceptional value to those businesses that want to combine multiple locations together under one easy, abbreviated dialing plan, but don't want the expense of purchasing and maintaining telecommunications equipment for all of their offices. Based on GST's Centrex system, Enhanced Business Services requires no major common equipment (such as a PBX or key system) on-site. GST operates and maintains the associated equipment in its Points of Presence.

To: MangoBoy who wrote (251)	11/17/1999 9:42:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 369

[Avici Shows Fiber-Optic Switch, Trying To Show Tech Lead] NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Avici Systems Inc., a North Billerica, Mass., maker of a high-capacity switch/router, is demonstrating its gear to the public as part of an effort to show that its product is ahead of its competitors in deploying such technology. Avici is one of a handful of companies developing high-capacity gear to handle vast streams of Internet traffic flowing into telecommunications operations over fiber-optic lines. The company said it is demonstrating its system in a live fiber-optic network as part of the SuperComputing '99 conference. "Our belief is that this is going to drive optical and next-generation networks," said Surya Panditi, president and chief executive officer of Avici Systems. Avici is actively working with six customers, including GST Telecommunications Inc. (GSTX). Avici has said its system is one of the few working terabit switch/routers in the market today. It is competing with technology Lucent Technologies (LU) acquired when it bought Nexabit Networks Inc. and systems that Nortel Networks Corp. (NT) has said it plans to develop in house.

To: MangoBoy who wrote (251)	11/17/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 369

[GST and Avici Systems Usher in Terabit Networking Era] (This release from back in May connects NTON and Avici relationships. -- mark) First True Terabit-Capable Backbone Solution Deployed in a Live Network LAS VEGAS, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- GST Telecommunications, Inc., and Avici Systems today announced deployment of an Avici Terabit Switch/Router(TM) (TSR) into the West Coast leg of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) "SuperNet" project, a networking research test bed co-funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Transparent Optical Network (NTON) Consortium. Deployment of the router is a milestone in the industry since it is the first time that a true terabit-capable backbone solution has been deployed into a live network. "The explosive growth of the Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) services is making terabit networking a necessity for broadband service providers. The Avici TSR enhances our broadband capabilities and reduces our cost for delivering broadband services," said Joe Basile, president and chief executive officer of GST. "To build the NTON project into the ultra-high-speed network envisioned by DARPA, an IP backbone product that is capable of efficiently scaling to terabits while also providing reliability and quality of service features is absolutely essential. This is the first commercially deployable terabit router. The NTON deployment provides GST with an outstanding opportunity to gain 'hands-on' experience with the technology as the first step in full-scale commercial deployment." "The first live network deployment of the TSR is a major proof point for the telecommunications market, securing GST's and Avici's leadership position in the terabit networking arena," said Surya Panditi, president and chief executive officer of Avici Systems. "Avici is helping GST to deliver the bandwidth necessary to power the next generation NTON project and is proud to be at the forefront and assisting with this state-of-the-art networking project." Being tested by several national service providers and the first terabit IP core switch/router to be deployed, the Avici TSR boasts unequaled scalability, supporting from 2.5 gigabits to 5.6 terabits of useable input/output capacity. A fully configured TSR can support up to 8960 OC3 ports, 2240 OC12 ports, 2240 OC48 ports, or 560 OC192 ports. All interfaces operate at line rate and link protocols include packet over SONET, ATM, and MPLS. In addition to scalability, service provider benefits include carrier-grade element and network resiliency, robust quality of service features, and network simplification. To meet service providers' scalability and reliability requirements with existing core routers requires multiple boxes and frequent fork-lift upgrades. The Avici TSR solves these problems and allows service providers to offer mission-critical IP services. The NTON Consortium includes Nortel Networks, GST Telecommunications, Sprint Communications and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Consortium is creating the NGI testbed as part of DARPA's Next Generation Internet "SuperNet" Program. When complete, the NTON West Coast network will provide the research community, from Seattle to San Diego, with the highest bandwidth available today for applications and network technology research.