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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (5978)	2/1/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Sherry ---Thanks ---enjoyed this line the most--- Lucent Technologies invests more than $2 billion each year in the development of new communication technologies and products. BEST WISHES BILL

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (5978)	2/1/1999 3:00:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

GEEKS - Japan Plans Internet Router Assault By Jeremy Scott-Joynt and Kenneth Cukier for CommunicationsWeek International 01 February 1999 Japanese high-tech vendors have embarked on a government-funded initiative that aims to develop data networking equipment 1,000 times faster than today's Internet routers. Yet with technical details still unavailable and no sign of public draft specifications, many Internet engineers believe the chances for success against today's powerful U.S. companies remain slim. Four companies - Hitachi Ltd., NEC Corp., The Furukawa Electric Co., and Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. - have formed the Real Internet Consortium (RIC) with the backing of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). The ministry is sinking 1.06 billion yen ($9.2 million) of public money into the project, drawn from last year's third supplementary budget, the Y5.7 trillion public investment package that the government hopes will help pull the moribund Japanese economy out of its seven-year slump. The consortium intends to present a new internetworking protocol, that will allow for quality of service and prioritized traffic, to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet standards-setting body. RIC is collaborating with seven Japanese universities, including the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the University of Michigan in the United States.