January 8, 1999

Public and Private Efforts Speed Start of Next Generation of Internet Connections

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Two announcements last month, within a day of each other, demonstrate that construction of the next generation of global Internet connections is well under way.

A company called IXC Communications announced a new nationwide high-speed backbone network that will serve both commercial customers and universities. A day later, the Internet 2 project -- a group of 135 universities working to build better network

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