MCI strives for end to clogged call centers

Federal telecommunications services vendor MCI WorldCom will offer a service to route calls more efficiently into telephone centers at agencies, businesses and other organizations.

New Cabletron module converts switches

Networking company Cabletron Systems has unveiled a product that converts network switches into routers.

Alcatel offers integrated voice/data networking

French telecommunications company Alcatel on Tuesday unveiled a product designed to act as a nerve center for networks that carry voice and data traffic.

Acquisition

AT&T to continue providing South Pole link

AT&T has won a $10 million contract to connect federal workers at the South Pole with the rest of the world.

Acquisition

Sprint lands Federal Reserve network upgrade deal

The Federal Reserve has selected telecommunications provider Sprint to modernize the network that connects major banks to the agency, linking trillions of dollars in monetary transactions each year.

New Cisco switch offers larger network building blocks

Cisco Systems Inc. this week unveiled a new network switching solution targeted at managers of networks in midsize organizations.

Workforce

Firm to provide FBI with online public record info

Data services firm ChoicePoint Inc. has forged an agreement to provide the FBI with information from online public records that will help the agency compile suspect profiles.

New option announced for automated fingerprint IDs

Cogent Systems Inc. has made its fingerprint identification software products available on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris platform a move that will give crime fighters yet another way to automate investigations.

MCI chief: Revenues depend on federal contract

MCI WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers said Wednesday he expects revenue growth for the company, but just how much depends in part on how swiftly federal agencies buy the company's telecommunication services.

"LawNet'' brings states together to fight cybercrime

Attorney General Janet Reno on Monday proposed a cooperative network that would enable law enforcement agencies across the country to share information on electronic crimes.

Acquisition

11 vendors win call center contracts

The General Services Administration has signed agreements with 11 vendors to offer call center management services to federal agencies.

Workforce

Rand: Tech Aid Helping to Fight Crime

Rand, the public-policy think tank, has issued a report suggesting that federal technology assistance for state and local crime fighters is paying off, although many opportunities exist for enhancing the relationship.

Rand: Fed crime-fighting dollars paying off

Rand, the publicpolicy think tank, has issued a report suggesting that federal technology assistance for state and local crime fighters is paying off, although many opportunities exist for enhancing the relationship.

VA catches "embarrassing" Y2K blip

The Department of Veterans Affairs has weathered slight Year 2000 problems in the final hours before the rollover into the new year.

Sprint, MCI reporting smooth traffic flow

Sprint Corp. and MCI Worldcom Inc., the companies that supply longdistan

Was Y2K doom-and-gloom hype? No, says U.S.

Despite the extraordinarily smooth computer date rollover from 1999 to 20

Air traffic control rolls through Zulu time

The nation's air traffic control systems survived their first test for processing dates in the Year 2000, rolling over successfully at 7 p.m. EST today midnight, Zulu time.

No Y2K woes, Bell Atlantic reports

Officials at Bell Atlantic Corp., which provides telecommunication services and equipment for federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., area, reported today that they had experienced no Year 2000related problems.

Y2K won't derail space station

The U.S. government's work with Russia to build the International Spa

GSA's Ustad dies after cancer battle

Ida Ustad, deputy associate administrator for acquisition policy at the General Services Administration, died Nov. 29 of complications from cancer.

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