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To: SJS who wrote (2238)	9/22/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 6846

[Qwest Subsidiary, EUnet International, to Provide First Pan-European Broadcast Services over the Internet] Innovative technology speeds broadcast of internal communications, events and live entertainment over the Internet DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1998--Qwest Communications today announced its subsidiary, EUnet International B.V., has launched EUnet Multimedia Network Services (EMNS) - the first pan-European Internet broadcasting network. Through the new EMNS offerings, EUnetLive and EUnetOnDemand, corporate customers in Europe can now broadcast video, data and voice to a global audience with unprecedented quality of service. EMNS takes advantage of EUnet's European data network - the largest in Europe - to transcend traditional broadcasting limitations, distributing live or archived multimedia material to eight servers located across Europe. Designed for corporate customers, EMNS dramatically improves internal communications by speeding video, animation and static images to desktops around the world. The quality and reliability of the transmission is greatly improved since users of EUnetLive and EUnetOnDemand access multimedia information on designated local servers, rather than from one central server. This reduces the distance between the end user and the information source, and alleviates congested international Internet connections. EMNS has been tested successfully across Europe with broadcasts from, among others, the MIR space station. This announcement comes one week after Qwest announced the world's first commercially available nationwide OC-48 IP network, offering some of the industries' most aggressive service level agreements including 100 percent network availability. "The launch of EUnet Multimedia Network Services combined with the deployment of our nationwide OC-48 IP network allows Qwest to offer large and multinational corporations the most comprehensive, reliable data and Internet services available in the U.S. and Europe," said Joseph P. Nacchio, president and CEO of Qwest. "Qwest continues to aggressively deploy the latest technologies to provide corporate customers with the necessary tools to communicate with the world in images, real-time video, data and voice." "This announcement points the way towards the necessary re-engineering of the Internet by Internet service providers (ISPs), who are faced with limited bandwidth and massively increasing multimedia traffic," said Johan Helsingius, EUnet International's director of marketing and product development. "EMNS has only been made possible by the breadth of our network," he added. "No other service provider can currently offer such a pan-European service because there is no other network of comparable reach." About EUnet Headquartered in Amsterdam, EUnet was established in 1982 as the first European provider of Internet services for business use and was instrumental in creating Europe's Internet infrastructure. Today, EUnet provides, via subsidiaries in 14 European countries, affiliated companies and business partners, one-stop shopping for corporate Internet access in Europe with a network spanning more than 30 countries and more than 400 PoPs (Points of Presence). Growing at an annual rate of 53 percent, EUnet offers the business community, via its transit-free backbone, a wide range of turnkey solutions from full service centrally managed connectivity and Intranets to mobile access, Webcasting, Web Storefront and E-commerce solutions. EUnet International is a Qwest Communications International company.