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To: William W. Dwyer, Jr. who wrote (2087)	3/20/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Gorak Shep	Respond to of 3216

BBN was originally a company called Bolt, Beranek & Newman in Cambridge, MA. It was a prestigious research firm that started out in acoustics and other physical sciences. It was also a principal in the invention of the Arpanet, the first incarnation of the internet. BBN built the equivalent of today's routers for the Arpanet called IMP's for Interface Message Processor. BBN also ran the Arpanet as the network operations manager. BBN spread into many other computer technology areas through the '80s and early '90s, much of it via government contracts, particularly DARPA. The email address format "username@host.com" was specified by a BBNer named Ray Tomlinson. But like Xerox PARC, BBN was much better at developing technologies than it was at commercializing them. In fact, a number of the researchers at PARC that invented GUI interfaces went there from BBN including John Seely Brown who now runs PARC. New management came into BBN a few years ago as the internet took off and the company decided to focus on internet infrastructure. They already had substantial backbone assets and they purchased more as well as ISP resources for high end customers like businesses rather than individuals. But I guess they felt they were a little too small to go it alone and so GTE bought them a few years ago, not all that long after management changed. So today BBN is one of the major internet backbone providers and business ISPs. Of course, with substantial backbone bandwidth, they can provide both common internet supply as well as private networks.

To: William W. Dwyer, Jr. who wrote (2087)	3/22/1999 5:23:00 AM
From: Chas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3216

When I was inquiring about a better connection Cyber support told me that so called VPN was also Internet feed. I was very disappointed as I had changed my account from Cornerstone with TradeCast. I had a direct dial, toll free long distance ISDN connection that was fast, fast, fast when it worked. I would get disconnected several times a day. Bad bad bad. The connection would only work with ISDN. I moved and it took 2 1/2 months to get my ISDN line back due to US West strike. Cornerstone found a problem with the network server I was using and said they had the problem fixed. Now after the change I find that I have a bad ISDN telephone line. Dam dam dam (sic). With all the frustration and hassles my trading has gone to the toilet. One good thing, I missed the Robin song and dance. Caught a little bit of her on Momentum Trading and decided to pass this one for sure. I would rather go skiing to get my head straight than to drink water all day. :}