Big local phone companies to offer fast-data services

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A number of local telephone companies plan to offer two high-speed data transfer methods, switched multimegabit data service and frame relay, starting in late 1992. Both formats are based on digital technology, and extend the power of local area networks (LANs) to speed long distance data transfer. They will present an alternative to X.25, a current digital telecommunications technique, which transfers data at 56,000 bits per second (bps). Frame relay works at a rate of 1.54 million bps, and switched multimegabit at 34 million bps. All three formats use packet switching, in which small packets of data are moved over low capacity telephone lines in bursts and are rejoined at the receiving end. The new services are expected to be popular with hospitals, businesses and universities which frequently transmit complex data packages to other locations. The major long-distance carriers have already announced plans to offer the same services.

Usage, Services, Telephone companies, Digital communications, Packet switches, Frame relay, Communications protocols, Networks, Telephone Company, Transmission Speed, Digital Communication, Packet Switch, X.25 Protocol, SMDS, Switched Multimegabit Data Service

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BellSouth taps experience for move into new services

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BellSouth promoted W.H. Williams to executive director of information services as part of its plans to incorporate new information services. BellSouth, the largest regional phone company, plans to test new services such as new facsimile services and enhanced advertising services. The Federal courts recently decided that BellSouth could offer services that had originally been banned by the legislation that divided AT&T in 1984. Williams acted as president of BellSouth Information Systems which provides information processing and writes computer software for other BellSouth divisions. Williams will have a new staff, and will remain in Atlanta where BellSouth is headquartered.

Radio & TV communications equipment, Management, Planning, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Information services, BellSouth Corp., BLS, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Strategic Planning, Telecommunications Service, Promotion of Employee, Bell Regional Holding Companies, Williams, W.H.

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