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Foil 4 Comments on FLAG and Web Servers
Fiber Optic Link Across the Globe

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
FLAG is an enterprise in which NYNEX Network Systems Company is a major (roughly 40%) investor.
Current fiber link from U.K. to Japan (via Africa) is being constructed at a $1.4B cost
InfoMall is proposed as USA distributor of Information services to Africa
  • George Langworth of NYNEX is the Africa Business Developer for FLAG
Current Contacts and potential InfoMall tenants are:
  • MultiTel: South Africa
  • Access: Ivory Coast
  • ONPT - Morocco
These will typically lease 64Kbit lines from NYNEX and FLAG to run from FLAG offramp in Africa to NPAC
NPAC will supply technology to link Web Server at NPAC to Web Servers in Africa
  • High-end PC's should be included as possible Web server even we use SP-2, nCUBE3 or multi-processor SGI in NPAC
  • Real-Time Compression critical on FLAG as lines are costly -- note Internet is free but needs compression as overloaded ....

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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