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UUnet - First Commercial Isp, New Owners For Uunet, 1996, Worldcom Invests In Uunet, 1997-2001

UUNET, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant WorldCom, is a leading provider of Internet services and products primarily to business customers worldwide. It offers Internet access, Web hosting, remote access, and other services throughout the world to more than 70,000 businesses. The company also owns and operates a global network in thousands of cities.

UUNET's customers can choose from a range of Internet access options, including dial-up and remote access, dedicated access over DSL, ATM, frame relay, and high-bandwidth dedicated leased line connections. UUNET's Web hosting services include managed Web hosting on shared or dedicated Web servers as well as co-location at its WorldCom Hosting Centers. UUNET also provides businesses with virtual private networks (VPNs), security solutions, and Internet multicasting.

UUNET provides wholesale services to Internet service providers (ISPs), carriers, and others who use UUNET's Internet infrastructure as the basis for the Internet services they offer to their own customers. Among the leading Internet services for which UUNET has provided Internet backbone are America Online, the Microsoft Network (MSN), GTE, EarthLink, and CompuServe.

As of mid-2001, UUNET's IP (Internet protocol) network spanned more than 2,500 points of presence, making it one of the most widely deployed IP networks in the world. UUNET offered connectivity in more than 100 countries.

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UUnet - First Commercial Isp

Founded in 1987, UUNET is recognized as the first commercial Internet service provider (ISP). In the early 1990s it introduced several innovative services, including the first commercial application-layer firewall services for IP networks in 1992, T-1 connections to the Internet in 1993, the first virtual private network (VPN) service and Web hosting services in 1994. In 1994 John Sidgmore became …

UUnet - New Owners For Uunet, 1996

In 1996 MFS Communications Inc. acquired UUNET for $2 billion in stock, a 37 percent premium over market value. The acquisition made 40 of UUNET's 700 employees who owned UUNET stock millionaires. MFS Communications was based in Omaha, Nebraska, and offered local and long distance telephone service in New York and nationwide. It built fiber-optic cable connections to 7,400 buildings in key …

UUnet - Worldcom Invests In Uunet, 1997-2001

With WorldCom as its parent company, UUNET was able to offer a pioneering service guarantee promising uptime of more than 99.9 percent for intranet and business-to-business services. The guarantee applied to sites that were connected to one another by the UUNET network. It covered more than 300 locations in the United States and 500 in Europe and Asia. UUNET received $300 million from WorldCom to …

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