Karl Schwarz and his company, GlobalAxxess, didn't pay the bill,
Uunet said.
According to Parrick, integration of ethernet with Internet is accomplished through a hand-off to a high-powered Juniper router, and then to one of Yipes' backbone providers:
UUnet, Level 3 or SAVVIS.
Ricochet service offers flat-rate pricing and no roaming fees, and is available through a number of service providers including GoAmerica, SkyTel,
UUNet, and WorldCom.
Africa Online in 2000 announced a joint venture with
UUNet in South Africa to create a 14-country African internet backbone, allowing it to shift its own focus from technical management to marketing.
Next, Jagemann became the executive assistant and then protege of John Sidgemore, now vice chairman of WorldCom, and made a cool $3 million when Sidgemore's
UUnet was sold to the global telecom giant.
WatchGuard for MSS is a leading platform for managed security targeted to small and medium enterprises, and is the system of choice for more than 60 service providers worldwide, including Genuity (formerly GTE), PSINet,
UUNet and Verio.
The service will combine the
UUNET's infrastructure, with Alternative Networks' approach to customer care.
"We have been putting increasing emphasis on not accepting remedies that have to be tested (among competitors, consumers, customers and national competition authorities) at the last minute." The companies have offered to sell Sprint's Internet service business, but the Commission is understood to have wanted the spin-off of the corresponding Internet services unit of WorldCom,
UUNet - something the companies have refused.
John Sidgmore, Vice chairman of MCI Worldcom and CEO of
UUNET agreed, saying, "Tax benefits are not what has allowed the Internet to grow as much as it has over the past five years.
"We have two gateways onto the Internet in Denver, through RML.Net and
UUNet," May said.