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ESnet Awards Qwest $50 Million Contract to Support DOE's Scientific Communications Network

January 5, 2000

  The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (Esnet) this week announced that it has awarded a $50 million contract to Qwest Communications International Inc. to support ESnet for up to seven years. Under the contract, Qwest will provide performance levels up to a terabit (one million megabits/second) network by the year 2005, offering 500 times the highest speed available in the…  Read More