23 Sep
1996
23 Sep
'96
5:43 a.m.
On Monday 23 September 1996 00:15Z.. Was the worlds first transatlantic 155Mbit native IP service brought into operation by Sprint/USA and Tele2/Sweden. The circiut wich is part of Sprintlink and ICMnet runs between the NY-Nap in Pennsauken, NJ, USA and Tele2 in Sweden and uses cisco packet-over-sonet/sdh technology. (Native IP over SDH/VC4) In 1995 the same team from Sprint and Tele2 brought up the worlds first transatlantic E3 service between the same endpoints. For more information; Sprint: Tricia Schibler, +1 703 904 2042, <tricia.schibler@qm.sprintcorp.com> Tele2: Olle Wallner, +46 8 5626 4058, <wallner@swip.net> --Peter