August 6, 1999
New Network Brings High-Speed Technologies to Wider Audiences
A new commercial computer network may give many small colleges their first access to high-speed applications already used in exclusive research networks.
MCI Worldcom announced this month that it had created vBNS+, a new network that will offer the same technologies found in the National Science Foundation's very-high-performance Backbone Network Service, or vBNS. The new network will be available to any
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