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General DataComm Helps Put Kentucky Kids in the ‘Passing Lane’
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Business New Haven
10/23/1995
By: BNH
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MIDDLEBURY - A September 27th announcement by General DataComm (GDC), the Middlebury-based telecommunications company, highlights its position as a prime contractor for the information superhighway. Founded in 1969, GDC employs 1,800 people and had 1994 revenues of $211 million. GDC has been selected by the Kentucky Department of Education to provide schools throughout that state with high-speed access (T1) to the Internet. Kentucky thus becomes the first state in the nation to offer schools statewide Internet access at such high speeds.
The network, based on GDC's T1 multiplexers, will be used to connect all Kentucky school districts and provide students and teachers with Internet access, including links to more than 35,000 libraries. GDC can be expected to continue to grow as its continues to unveil new network, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Internet access products.
The Bluegrass State appears to be taking seriously President Clinton's proposal to provide all American schools with Internet access by the year 2000. Funny, they don't look so much like rednecks when they're blowing by you on the information superhighway.
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