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Internet Pioneer NYSERNet Spins a New Web Company
AppliedTheoryTM to Offer Corporate Clients Strategic Internet and IntranetingSM Solutions New York, N.Y -- November 12, 1996 -- NYSERNet, a non-profit organization that was the nation's first Internet Service Provider to the corporate world, today announced the creation of AppliedTheory Communications, Inc., a for-profit strategic Internet and Web services company. A decade ago, it was NYSERNet that introduced "Fortune 500" corporations, including IBM, General Electric, Eastman Kodak and NYNEX to the Internet. NYSERNet's success in providing high-quality Internet access and Web services, and its accomplishments in developing new intranetingSM technologies, sparked the creation of the commercial affiliate. Building on NYSERNet's 11 years of Internet experience, AppliedTheory will provide an array of World Wide Web services, including Web hosting platforms for publishing, commercial transactions and interactive media, each equipped with a unique Workbench and online instruction. The new company will also offer strategic Internet and WWW training, and dedicate high-speed connectivity. In addition, AppliedTheory will emphasize a discipline it has successfully spearheaded for the past two years, intraneting: the creation of specialized intranets and World Wide Web sites through the integration of Web front ends with legacy databases. In addition to Kodak and General Electric, the company's clients already include Chemical Bank (Chase), Corning, Northrop Grumman, Columbia University, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, EarthWeb and the U.S. Department of Labor. Dr. Richard Mandelbaum, one of the architects of the present-day Internet and AppliedTheory's president, stated "What differentiates AppliedTheory from any other business-focused Web company is our ability to form strong, collaborative partnerships with our clients, helping them build Internet strategies that produce immediate results. "Our intraneting solutions came out of work with long-term customers. We have developed prototyping techniques and modular code for standard functions, giving us a significant edge over our competitors," Mandelbaum continued. "As a result, we can integrate legacy systems with Web front ends in half the time most large scale projects of this type now take to complete. The U.S. Department of Labor, where we were working with a 15 year old system, is a good example. We saved them not just a considerable investment in proprietary networking and software, but, more important, the expense of re-engineering their existing systems." AppliedTheory's Web-based product lines -- AppliedWeb Management ServicesSM and AppliedIntranetingSM -- are built on the AppliedAccessSM network backbone, a multiple T3 network, with 180 Mbps access to the Internet. "During the past six months, when major providers like ANS and BBN have experienced substantial network outages," notes Mark Oros, senior director of operations, "our network availability has averaged better than 99.9%." Through a strategic partnership with Sprint IP Services, the AppliedTheory network is integrated into Sprint's worldwide OC-3 (155Mbps) SprintLinkTM network. AppliedTheory provides applications-based training for business-instructing in the use of the Internet and the WWW to create innovative business strategies. AppliedTheory's training services offer standard and customized on site instruction, as well as hands-on training at dedicated state-of-the-art facilities in Manhattan and Syracuse, NY. The company has already trained over 3,000 employees at Corning, Sprint and Kodak in a new approach that prepares end-user and management staff throughout the corporation to understand complex Internet concepts. "What AppliedTheory brought to the table was a tremendous ability to develop the course content that we needed...the enthusiasm their instructors bring to the classroom is praised in almost every evaluation we receive. Other Internet courses are available...but we feel our courses are better because they were developed specifically for Kodak and address our Internet policies and practices," said Linda Edward, Kodak's curriculum manager for computer technology training. AppliedTheory has many firsts to its credit. Its pioneering activities began in 1985 when it founded the Internet in New York State. It has also led the industry in network management, playing a major part in the development and deployment of SNMP, now an industry standard, and establishing the first dedicated Internet Network Operations Center (NOC) in 1988. "It is AppliedTheory's goal to continue to provide leadership in the industry, striving for excellence in infrastructure reliability and availability, and the highest possible level of customer support," said Oros. We expect to set industry standards in this arena." AppliedTheory has built its 24 x 7 Customer Support Center in response to an industry-wide survey of customer requirements that it sponsored early this year. "By virtue of NYSERNet's long history and experience," said Mandelbaum, "AppliedTheory is a first-tier Internet Solutions Partner with a successful track record of building Internet and intraneting solutions for the most demanding clients and mission-critical applications." For more information contact: Mark Bruce, Vice President GHB Communications Tel: 203/321-1242 Fax: 203/321-1244 Cathy Bahan, Public Relations Manager AppliedTheory Communications, Inc. 40 Cutter Mill Road, Suite 405 Great Neck, N.Y. 11021 Tel: 516/466-8422 ext. 222 Fax: 516/466-8650 Email: cbahan@appliedtheory.com Web: www.appliedtheory.com |