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Breaking News -
Networking:
Qwest Wins Multi-Million Dollar
NASA Networking Deal
Qwest Commmunications has been selected to provide high-speed optical
networks
to three West Virginia research centers. One of the three is the NASA
Independent Verification and Validation Facility, located in Fairmont.
The contract is for five years and is in the multi-million dollar range.
The
NASA IVV facility will be linked with the West Virginia University Research
Corp and the National Energy Technology Laboratory, both in Morgantown, via a
OC-12 optical network.
The netowrk also will enable connectivity to other organization throughout
the
nation, including the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center terascale computer.
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