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To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (431)	10/31/1997 6:15:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1629

UUnet backbone architecture, RAS, and business UUNET provides backbone services to other online entities, including the Microsoft Network, EarthLink, and GTE Internet Services. UUNET's long-term technology strategy is to provide single-source reliable communications for a full range of Internet applications. To that end, UUNET is expanding its network infrastructure, in part through an agreement with Microsoft; integrating and expanding its suite of value-added products and services; investing in its network operations and technical support infrastructure; and building and leveraging relationships with strategic partners. Approximately 40% of UUNET's second quarter 1996 revenues derived from the Microsoft Network. MFS Communications Company, Inc., also founded in 1987, is a leading provider of communication services for businesses and government providing integrated local and long distance services. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, MFS operates the Metropolitan Area Ethernets (MAEs) in several cities which have become de facto peering and interconnect points for many national backbone operators. The company currently has all-fiber networks in operation in 52 metropolitan markets in the U.S. and abroad. On July 10, 1996, GTE Corporation announced a multimillion dollar agreement under which GTE utilizes UUNET's dial-up and dedicated network and Internet backbone to provide dial-up and dedicated Internet access services nationwide. Titled GTE Internet Solutions, the service is available in 250 cities in 46 states, offering dial-up connections at $19.95 per month for unlimited access, or at $8.95 per month for five hours access plus $1.95 for each additional hour. GTE provides local telephone service in 28 states and long distance service in 16 states and had revenues of $20 billion in 1995. UUNET has a European subsidiary, UUNET PIPEX, with alliances in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East and currently has 17 partners and associates in this territory. On August 19, UUNET PIPEX announced it had purchased a 51.8% controlling interest in Belgium's leading Internet service provider, Innet, investing 50 million Belgian francs to expand this service. In 1995 and 1996, UUNET moved aggressively to acquire other Internet providers outside the United States. Along with UUNET PIPEX (formerly Unipalm Group plc), the largest ISP in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe; UUNET acquired Metrix Interlink in Canada; and EUnet Germany. In addition, UUNET acquired majority interests in UUNET Canada and INnet, a Belgian ISP. As of November 1, 1996, UUNET had 19 international gateway access

To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (431)	10/31/1997 6:18:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1629

UUnet's backbone, Part II The company continues to move toward dominance of the Internet market. UUNET announced a $300 million upgrade on February 19, 1997 that will more than quadruple the available capacity across its national network in terms of both backbone bandwidth and dial capacity. With traffic over the backbone nearly doubling every quarter and demand for dial access growing at more than 10 percent every week, it initiated the most ambitious network expansion in its 10-year history. UUNET began upgrading its backbone in segments to support the highest speed available today for Internet Protocol (IP) transmission: OC-12 (622 Mbps). The upgrade involves shifting of the backbone links to the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocol. ATM is the only proven technology currently available that supports IP transmission at OC-12 speeds. The company is installing ASX-200 and ASX-1000 ForeRunner ATM switches from FORE Systems. To increase the number of dial access ports, the most common means of accessing the Internet, the company has begun installing high-density MAX TNT remote access concentrators from Ascend Communications. The MAX TNT concentrators, which support both analog and digital dial-up traffic, are being deployed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. CURRENT BACKBONE ARCHITECTURE UUNET's backbone network consists exclusively of redundant, fully-meshed DS-3 (45 Mbps) connections. Using Cascade 9000 intelligent routing switches and Cisco 7000/7500-series routers, UUNET's backbone forms a global lattice of interconnected links, which the company says is designed to eliminate any single point of failure. All UUNET switching nodes are physically secure and protected by uninterruptible power supplies, using batteries and diesel generators. In late March the company said it installed Larscom's Orion 4000 broadband access multiplexers and Access T45 T-3 DSUs to support high speed customer access and international backbone links. In 1997, further network expansion using ATM and OC-12 technologies is planned. 128 Kbps ISDN DIAL-UP LAN CONNECTION Product: Internet 9-5 BASICSM Service-ISDN Availability: See POP list Average Installation Time: 4 days to two weeks, depending on telco ISDN availability Setup: $395 Monthly: $395 Hours included per month: Unlimited Recommended Equipment: Ascend PL50 router - $1,050

To: Narotham Reddy who wrote (431)	10/31/1997 6:21:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1629

UUnet, Part III ...<Other services>... FUTURE EXPANSION PLANS WorldCom announced in March that in response to the rapid openings of telecommunications markets to competition in Europe, the company will begin construction of an all-fiber optic pan-European network. The first phase will connect London, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris later this year. It is intended that, over time, the pan-European network will interconnect WorldCom's city networks in Europe and provide the platform for the development of broadband national networks as they develop in the future. The pan-European network will be built using the same architecture as WorldCom's metropolitan area networks - a series of fully resilient, fiber optic, SDH loops. The network will support multiple 2.5 gigabit channels per fiber pair using wave division multiplexing and optical amplifiers. This technology will support a capacity in the tens of gigabits per fiber pair and allow for rapid installation of additional capacity as customer demands increase. WorldCom has recently received regulatory approval to build and operate national and international telecommunications networks in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Sweden. With the approach of January 1, 1998, the date set by the European Commission for the full liberalization of telecommunications in European Union member states, it is anticipated that others will join this growing list of countries opening their markets to competition. The company also announced that as part of the first phase of the pan-European network, it will build two cross-Channel submarine cables linking the UK with the Netherlands and France. The cross-Channel cables will be installed in the third quarter of this year and will be provisioned with a 48 fiber cable. This will provide ample capacity for the predicted growth in high-bandwidth data and Internet traffic and the future development of WorldCom's pan-European network. This will also provide connectivity to the UK in its role as a telecommunications hub now served by over 40 internationally licensed carriers. The overland portion of the pan-European network will be provisioned as a readily upgradeable eight-fiber network. Last year, WorldCom announced the launch of a project to build a 20 gigabit transatlantic cable system connecting London and New York. In October 1996, Cable and Wireless joined Gemini as a 50:50 partner - the project is ahead of plan and will be operational in early 1998. When both the transatlantic system and the pan-European network are complete, a WorldCom customer could be connected from, for example, Paris to Los Angeles over a single physical network built, owned and operated by WorldCom.