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To: Steven Bowen who wrote (3054)	3/11/1999 8:49:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Time Warner Telecom to Launch Business Phone Service in Dallas Conduit Deal With Level3 in the Dallas Area - Hollow Tubes? March 11, 1999 GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., March 10 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- Time Warner Telecom, LLC, today announced it will launch its integrated communications services to medium and large businesses in Dallas beginning in late summer 1999. Time Warner Telecom, a full service integrated communications carrier, will construct a fiber optic network using leased conduit from Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT). Level 3 and Time Warner Telecom recently entered into a 20-year agreement to provide Time Warner Telecom access to Level 3's conduits in the Greater Dallas metropolitan area. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Currently the company offers service in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, Texas and 16 other cities throughout the United States. Medium and large business customers will be able to purchase Time Warner Telecom dedicated transport, long distance, hi-speed dedicated Internet access and switched services. The company will begin deploying fiber and installing a communications switching office and hubs in April. Time Warner Telecom is a fiber, facilities-based integrated communications carrier offering broadband data services, local switched voice services, long distance and integrated communications solutions for medium and large business customers. Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Time Warner Telecom currently offers service in Austin, Houston and San Antonio, TX; Cincinnati and Columbus, OH; Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, NC; Honolulu, HI; Indianapolis, IN; New York City, Albany, Binghamton and Rochester, NY; Milwaukee, WI; Memphis, TN; Orlando and Tampa, FL., and San Diego, CA. Time Warner Telecom's website is www.twtelecom.com. For more information about Level 3 Communications, contact the company's website at www.Level3.com. SOURCE Time Warner Telecom, LLC /CONTACT: Mark Peters for Time Warner Telecom, 303-566-1545, mark.peters@twtelecom.com/ /Web site: level3.com /Web site: twtelecom.com (LVLT)

To: Steven Bowen who wrote (3054)	3/12/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi Steven and Thread, Slowly sliding, bottlenecking Delta style, into yet another delicious diversion, enjoy! WebInsite Weekly/March 9 1999 ========================== Welcome to WebInsite Weekly--the e-mail newsletter from Data Communications, the global site for network architects. DATA COMM USER SURVEY ============================= What's your opinion worth? How about a new IBM ThinkPad 770? Data Communications is conducting its annual User Survey of long-distance carriers, and we'd like to hear from everyone out there who specifies/uses international leased lines, international frame relay, or corporate Internet services. Your opinions count. They'll form the basis of a major feature article detailing which international providers offer the best--and worst--service in the world. (Our findings will be published in an upcoming issue of Data Communications and on our Web site.) The carriers are listening. Service providers from all parts of the globe have told us they take our User Surveys very seriously. In fact, some operators have launched campaigns to improve quality once our findings have been made public. And there's another good reason to participate. Every survey participant is automatically entered into a drawing for an IBM ThinkPad 770 (configured with 366-MHz processor, 128-Mbyte RAM, 14.1-Gbyte hard disk, and 24X CD-ROM). Take the survey at: data.com WHO KNOWS ABOUT THE NEW PUBLIC NETWORK? ============================================ Data Communications--who else? We've rolled out a special section called NPN (short for New Public Network) to help cut through the hype and deliver hard facts about the products and technologies carriers and ISPs need to build their next-generation IP networks. What's in the inaugural issue of NPN? The first engineering-caliber test of ATM-to-frame switches, along with a feature-by-feature assessment of IADs (integrated access devices), revolutionary products that are changing the way carriers provision services to their customers. You'll also find industry news and the sort of single-product reviews you've come to count on from Data Communications. So check it out. And remember that NPN is your one-stop site for technology tutorials, lab tests, and detailed product comparisons--all geared to the architects of the public IP network: data.com NETWORKING NEWS/HOT HEADLINES ================================== Data Communications now delivers daily news right to your desktop. Just point your browser at data.com Here's a sampling of what you'll find: Siemens Officials Outline Unisphere Plans Execs at Siemens AG outline plans for a new U.S. operation based on the vendor's recent $500 million acquisitions data.com Vendors Unveil Plans to Save Digital Phones Recent products should help companies to install IP PBXs and hold on to their expensive digital phones. data.com Carriers Buck Local-Loop Costs in Japan High-speed wireless access may ultimately help bring down service costs in Japan. data.com TELECOM REPORT ================ For March 1 through 5: Rates for worldwide voice services declined by a fraction of a percent (-0.34%) while global private-line rates held relatively constant. Regionally, this dip was reflected in modest reductions in voice-traffic rates, such as Asia (-0.6%) and the Americas (-0.3%). The lowest available per-minute rates originating from the U.S. were for PSTN in Hong Kong, which declined to 6 cents (a reduction of 24.53% from the previous week); PSTN in China, which dropped 23 cents (a reduction of 14.81% over last week's rate); PSTN in Bahrain, down to 45 cents (a reduction of 9.82%); and PSTN in Bangladesh at 53 cents (down by 9.09% from last week's rate). Significant reductions also occurred in rates for voice over IP on private networks: In Malaysia a per-minute rate for leased-line VOIP was 11 cents (down 45% from the previous week's rates). The same rate was posted for leased-line VOIP in Singapore, which represented a 33.33% reduction there. In Poland, the leased-line VOIP rate dropped to 15 cents per minute, down 1.69% from last week's rate. --Written exclusively for WebInsite by Ross Mayfield, vice president of marketing for Ratexchange, an online bandwidth exchange for more than 1,700 carriers. Visit the Ratexchange Web site at: ratexchange.com GET THE GOODS ON GIGABIT ETHERNET ==================================== Don't miss Data Comm's 1999 Gigabit Ethernet Challenge--a special supplement that gives Cabletron, Cisco, Fore, Foundry, Nortel, Plaintree, and Xylan an opportunity to present their gig Ethernet solutions. All vendor strategies are based on a common network scenario to allow for head-to-head comparisons. Which strategy works best for your network? data.com DATA COMM ONLINE POLLS ========================= Nobody knows networking like Data Comm's readers. That's why we give them a chance to sound off on today's hottest technology issues. Here's a sampling of what they had to say about Service-Level Agreements (SLAs): Total number of responses: 41 Do you have SLAs (service-level agreements) with WAN service providers? Yes 56% No 44% If you do not have SLAs in place, why not? Provider unwilling to negotiate 33% Provider does not honor them 39% Confident in provider performance without them 28% Provider responds to performance problems case by case 33% Other (please specify) 6% Are you satisfied with the terms of your SLAs? Yes 74% No 26% To see what else our readers told us, including reader suggestions for SLA improvements, visit: webinsite.data.com WHAT DO YOU REALLY THINK? ============================ Share your opinions and see what your colleagues have to say about Ethical Networking Take Data Comm's latest online poll webinsite.data.com TECHNOLOGY TUTORIALS ======================= Data Comm now posts its award-winning technology tutorials to the Web before they appear in print. There's something new every day at data.com FIREWALL SERVICES: MORE BARK THAN BITE Outsourcing firewall services saves corporations the hassles and expense of ownership, but does it expose them to harm? Ironically, firewall service providers may suffer from the same shortage of security skills their customers are trying to avoid. data.com LAB TEST: FRAME RELAY TO ATM: THE FAULT LINE Switches that map frame relay circuits to ATM sound like a solution for carriers. But can they really stand up to the strain? Data Comm's Lab Test shows surprising results. data.com IADS: BUNDLE UP FOR THE LAST MILE ATM-based integrated access devices (IADs) let carriers deliver bundled voice, data, and video for far less. data.com HTH, Ray