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Article: ATMnet extends Internet backbone network to San Francisco; last segment of California corridor between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco is installed.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- September 3, 1996
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1996--ATMnet Tuesday announced that the installation of the last segment of its California-corridor asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) Internet backbone, which utilizes a synchronous optical network (SONET)-based OC3c (155Mbps) circuit, has been completed.
The backbone now extends from ATMnet's Network Operations Center in San Diego, through a point of presence in Anaheim, Calif., into the Los Angeles node and then on to the San Francisco Bay Area, with nodes in Santa Clara and Oakland, Calif.
The high-speed backbone gives users the bandwidth to transmit data at up to 155Mbps -- about 100 times faster than the commonly used ...