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To: Falcon who wrote (1191)	2/17/1998 9:27:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1629

U S West Goes For Apps on ASND powered NWs By JOHN T. MULQUEEN U S West Communications will announce on Tuesday that it is planing to roll out network-based applications later this year, including directory services, E-mail hosting, multimedia intranets and quality of service management. John Charters, vice president of Internet services for U S West !nterprises, said today that the services will be offered first in the 14 states served by U S West and rolled out later nationally on networks supplied by Williams Communications, Intermedia Communications [these two have been ASND's customers] and another long distance carrier he would not name. Intermedia will carry toll traffic within U S West's service region, he said. U S West is targeting all types of businesses initially for the applications, and will later offer them to residential customers, he said. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Oracle are working with U S West to develop and deploy NT, Java and Unix based applications on the carrier's network, Charters said. Novell and U S West will offer a directory-enabled network to manage the applications to provide directory, domain name server, proxy caching, secure Internet and remote intranet access through a single login. Hewlett-Packard and its recently acquired VeriFone unit are helping U S West create IP management systems, including quality of service management features. Digital Equipment is helping U S West support customers' back-office applications, and to integrate proprietary networks with U S West's national IP network. Charters said that the applications will be housed on NT and Unix servers and on remote switches. Some of the applications will run off centrally located servers, others will be on distributed platforms, such as caching, or on remote switches, he said. U S West !nterprises, the data networking arm of U S West, has been offering frame relay services nationally since 1995.

To: Falcon who wrote (1191)	2/17/1998 9:54:00 PM
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U S WEST Teams with Digital, HP, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and Sun to Create Next-Generation Network-Based Applications and Solutions for Home & Office Customers biz.yahoo.com

To: Falcon who wrote (1191)	2/19/1998 1:38:00 PM
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56kbps Modems to Take Center Stage in Late '98 February 19, 1998 (TAIPEI) -- CIS Technology Inc. and Asia Sun (Taiwan) Inc., the two largest modem makers in Taiwan, said 56kbps modems will become the mainstream products in the modem market in the second half of 1998. CIS Technology announced an annual output target of 6 million units for 1998, and Asia Sun, 4.8 million units. In 1997, CIS Technology manufactured 4 million modems, making it the largest modem producer in the world. The company currently enjoys a 10 percent share of the global market, and the new annual target of 6 million units is expected to help boost this figure to 12 percent in 1998. The 56kbps model now accounts for one-half of the company's total modem output. Asia Sun expects to increase its annual output from 4.7 million to 4.8 million units in 1998. The company plans to launch a new 56kbps modem at the Hannover Computer Expo in March, and it expects to receive NT$300 million (US$9 million) to NT$500 million worth of orders for cable modems in 1998. New products such as the double modem, which requires two telephone lines, are currently under development, according to the company.