pcl@hlexa.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) (02/15/84)
From: notes@hlexa.UUCP Newsgroups: pr.presstp AT&T PACKET NET PROMISED BY YEAR-END, Computerworld, Feb. 6, p. 11. AT&T has announced that its Accunet Packet Service will be available nationwide by the end of l984 through a six-node network. It is already available in New York and Chicago. The service upgrades AT&T's Basic Packet Switching Services (BPSS), allows users to share switching and transmission facilities, and includes 4,800 bit/sec service. Accunet does not include protocol conversion because of the FCC's Second Computer Inquiry limitation, but it will be directly accessible by any terminal or customer host computer that supports the CCITT X.25 standard set of essential features. Support for the CCITT X.75 internetwork protocol will be added in l985.