To: com-priv@psi.com Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 09:37:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL11] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3271 From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
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Simon Poole, EUnet Switzerland
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Press Release
EUROPE TO BENEFIT FROM WIDER ELECTRONIC NETWORK SERVICE
AMSTERDAM; Monday 29th March 1993. Organisations doing business in Europe and internationally are now able to buy worldwide network services from a single provider. EUnet today became Europe's leading international electronic mail and full network service provider when it announced the formal incorporation of EUnet Limited, an Irish registered company set up to better co-ordinate and bring to market its existing national services in the greater European region.
Managing networks reaching from Iceland to Vladivostok, and from the Arctic Circle to Tunisia, EUnet has provided services and connectivity in Europe since 1982. It is the largest centrally-managed open network services provider in Europe with over 8000 sites and 50 points of presence (access points) in 25 European countries .
Until now, the EUnet national organisations have each served primarily their own national industrial and research communities. While they have developed strong international links, there has been no formal overall structure for activities.
This step puts in place an organisation to meet the needs of the rapidly growing network services market. EUnet traffic has more than doubled each year since 1986 as the Single Market in Europe has taken shape.
Speaking in Amsterdam, EUnet's international operations centre, Chief Executive Glenn Kowack said, "This degree of infrastructure and service is essential for business communications in Europe. Electronic networks will help us reduce the barriers to trade internationally and go some way to enabling a return to economic growth across the Continent".
"EUnet customers are no longer only technical professionals. We now carry information that is critical to commercial enterprises. EUnet is now structured to serve European business better"
For the European research community, Francois Fluckiger, Deputy Leader, Communications Systems at CERN, Geneva, said, "EUnet has helped shrink distances between research sites in Europe. It has enabled us to communicate with our partners without concern for where we are, or even for the time of day".
Background Information:
EUnet Limited is jointly owned by the EUnet national service providers and EurOpen, the European Forum for Open Systems.
EUnet services include electronic mail (Internet-style RFC 822 as well as X.400), InterEUnet (Internet Protocol) connectivity and services such as remote log-in and file transfer over leased and dial-up lines, X.25 and ISDN.
EUnet operates its own infrastructure across Europe, and is the largest European component of the Internet (the world's network of computer systems). EUnet is a member of CIX, the Commercial Internet Exchange, and Ebone93, a research network consortium.
For Further Information:
Glenn Kowack Chief Executive, EUnet Limited Tel: +31 20 592 5109 Fax: +31 20 592 5155 e-mail: info@eu.net
Mark Riminton Sigma Public Relations Tel: +44 (0)932 252900 Fax: +44 (0)932 253670 e-mail: mriminton@eu.net