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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (10623)	3/11/2001 11:28:55 AM
From: James Fulop	Respond to of 12623

>>Which vendor or vendors provide the ethernet solution for Yipes and Teleson.<< Looking at the press releases on Yipes' site, it looks like Extreme, Lucent and Juniper products are being used. And since MFNX's network is also being used, I suppose you could say Nortel (as a major vendor to MFNX) is also being used... >>MFN's fiber optic infrastructure allows managed network service providers like Yipes to offer Internet access at broadband-level capacity, enabling an entirely new class of bandwidth-intensive applications," said Nick Tanzi, President and Chief Operating Officer of Metromedia Fiber Network. "Through this agreement, Yipes will gain access to unshared, fully scalable bandwidth at a fixed cost, allowing them to deliver today's cutting-edge business, engineering and multimedia services over the Internet."<< yipes.com For Extreme: >>To achieve this functionality, Yipes couples its advanced network management systems with state-of-the art gigabit switching routers from its principal equipment supplier, Extreme Networks. Extreme has worked closely with Yipes to continuously enhance its equipment to incorporate Yipes' customer and technical requirements. yipes.com For Lucent: SAN FRANCISCO, March 22, 2000 — Yipes Communications, Inc., the leading managed optical IP network provider, today announced that Lucent Technologies NetworkCare is providing 24x7 Network Operations Center (NOC) services for Yipes' gigabit backbone. Lucent rounds out Yipes' suite of best-in-class network management services. Yipes is building out the first end-to-end Ethernet-based regional networks across the United States for linking businesses to each other and to the Internet at speeds that are fully scalable from 1 Megabit-per-second up to 1 Gigabit-per-second in 1 Mbps increments. These networks will solve the bandwidth crunch between corporate LANs and cross-country fiber networks and drive a new generation of bandwidth-intensive applications. Lucent Technologies NetworkCare is remotely monitoring and troubleshooting Yipes' core network devices on a 24x7 basis from its Network Knowledge Center based in Denver. NetworkCare provides reporting, network performance analysis, troubleshooting assistance and backup services to restore the system in case of disaster. It also pursues trouble resolution with third party carriers who handle long-haul data transport for Yipes customers. NetworkCare supplements Yipes' network management operations at its own 24x7 NOC in Denver and its backup NOC in San Francisco. This redundant management system ensures the highest levels of reliability for Yipes business customers yipes.com I couldn't find anything about Teleson.