Dallas Convention Center

“Qwest worked with us to provide what our local carrier -- and several other companies we talked to -- could not: the connectivity, bandwidth and speed to showcase cutting-edge technology products at their best.”

When you're hosting a conference called “Super Computing 2000,” your technology had better measure up. So the Dallas Convention Center called Qwest. Their local provider's fastest Internet connection would transport only 12 million bits of data per second; Qwest installed a state-of-the-art OC-192c connection, moving information at a lightning-fast 10 gigabits (10 billion bits) per second. That reliable, powerful connection allowed attendees access to the first demonstration of uncompressed High-Definition Television video traveling over the Internet, from the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation's 180 Terabyte digital video database. Qwest Digital Media staged the event, showcasing its ability to create, store and deliver video on demand

As part of its permanent installation at the Convention Center, Qwest installed a ring containing the equivalent of 540 fiber miles connected to Qwest's local broadband network and global Internet backbone. This fiber ring will add value and technological power to every event the center hosts.

Track 2: Narrative

106,000 miles of high-speed, reliable connectivity

Why Qwest?

Each of our customers and partners comes to us with a different set of challenges, requiring a different set of solutions. Yet for one reason or another, they’ve all chosen to connect with Qwest.

Because Qwest is global: Across North America, through KPNQwest in Europe and via our undersea cable to Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, Qwest provides leading-edge enterprise solutions and connectivity for businesses. And with more than 106,000 miles of network, Qwest’s global, all-optical broadband Internet backbone network would wrap around the Equator more than four times.

Because Qwest is powerful: Qwest now operates the only OC-192c-routed Internet Protocol network coast-to-coast in North America, transporting data at a rate of 10 million bits per second, all connecting with Qwest’s 14 state-of-the art CyberCenters.

Because Qwest is innovative – and gets its innovations to market quickly: That OC-192c network isn’t an end goal, it’s a stepping-stone. Qwest is lab-testing an OC-768 network – and the company has already committed to creating a network capable of transporting one trillion bits per second by 2005.

Because Qwest is reliable: Qwest’s industry-leading Service Level Agreements guarantee customers the highest levels of performance – making commitments on service availability, data-transmission delays, outage notification and other benchmarks.

Because Qwest is competitive: Forging a new model for wholesale competition among communications companies in its 14-state local service area, Qwest has been opening its markets to more competition – and shoring up its own service performance – so it can re-enter the long-distance markets regulators required the company to leave during the U S WEST merger.

Because Qwest is a market leader: Whether developing Internet-based, value-added services for businesses, new network speeds or new ways to give residential telephone customers greater value and convenience, Qwest stays on the leading edge.

Track 3: Glossary

OC – Optical Carrier levels, indicating transmission speed on a fiber network such as Qwest’s; OC-192c represents a speed of 10 gigabits (10 billion bits) per second. At that speed, a user could send and receive all the data contained in the Encyclopedia Brittanica in about one second.