PSI Enhances PSILink Service, Adds Support for Wireless Data Networks
Kimberly Brown
ADDS SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS DATA NETWORKS
Reston, VA - May 4, 1992 - Performance Systems International, Inc.
(PSI) today announced the release of an enhanced version of PSILink,
the company's turnkey Internet service package. PSILink is a seamless
service that gives users global access to electronic resources,
including 250 million electronic mail users on the worldwide Internet.
"PSILink gives end-users a single point of access to a whole world of
e-mail users," said Martin L. Schoffstall, vice president and chief
technical officer of PSI. "The new version of PSILink adds more
services and support for more mail networks, including wireless data
networks."
The improved PSILink service includes Internet file transfer,
USENET/News, and message attachments. It delivers electronic mail to
subscribers of the Internet, MCIMail, ATTMail, CompuServe, AppleLink,
SprintMail and others. The new version of PSILink also supports
wireless mobile data networks operated nationwide by RAM Mobile Data,
a business venture between RAM Broadcasting and BellSouth.
RAM Mobile Data networks provide fast, efficient and economical data
communications for the mobile environment, using the standard Mobitex
architecture for packet switched message exchange between portable and
mobile terminals and their host computers. The system is optimized
for short, interactive data messages and offers greater capacity and
faster throughput than cellular, switched systems.
"By adding support for RAM, PSI is giving laptop users wireless access
to the e-mail boxes of the world," said Martin Levetin, RAM vice
president and general manager of wireless messaging. "We're very
pleased that PSI shares our vision of wireless connectivity."
Using a DOS-based laptop computer and a portable radio modem such as
Ericsson GE's Mobidem, PSILink subscribers can exchange messages over
the Internet from anywhere within RAM's radio coverage area --
including airports, offices and vehicles. Ericsson GE's Mobidem M1090
Portable Wireless Modem provides wireless data communications
connectivity for palmtop, notebook and laptop computers. It weighs
less than one pound and carries a suggested retail price of $1,795.
"With support for RAM mobile data networks, PSILink connects wireless
and wired network environments worldwide," Bill Frezza, director of
marketing and business development at Ericsson GE Mobile
Communications, Wireless Computing Division. "No other
internetworking service provider gives users one software package and
a single point of contact for both wired and wireless networks."
Low speed (1200 and 2400 baud) and high speed (9600 baud) local dialup
PSILink service is available through PSINet in major U.S. cities
including:
Ann Arbor, MI Corning, NY Newark, NJ Santa Clara, CA
Albany, NY Dallas, TX New York, NY Seattle, WA
Atlanta, GA Hartford, CT Philadelphia, PA Stamford, CT
Austin, TX Houston, TX Portland, OR Syracuse, NY
Binghamton, NY Islip, NY Potsdam, NY Trenton, NJ
Boston, MA Ithaca, NY Reston, VA Utica, NY
Buffalo, NY Los Angeles, CA Rochester, NY Washington, DC
Chicago, IL Mtn. View, CA San Francisco, CA White Plains, NY
Pricing for the PSILink service starts as low as $19 per month for
unlimited dialup electronic mail usage. PSILink 3.0 software is
available at no cost to subscribers, and features a graphical user
interface with windows and pull-down menus. Wireless prices will be
available in June. Also in June, PSI will announce fifty
international dialup access points in Europe and the Pacific Basin.
PSI, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a value-added
internetworking services provider with a wide spectrum of services for
the individual and corporate user of electronic information. Services
range from electronic mail products to turnkey integration of local
area networks into the PSINet wide area network system and the
Internet.
RAM Mobile Data operates packet switched radio-based data networks in
the U.S. and the United Kingdom with network construction planned for
Australia later this year.
Ericsson GE Mobile Communications, Inc., based in Paramus, New Jersey,
is owned 60 percent by Ericsson and 40 percent by GE. Ericsson GE
designs, manufactures, and markets cellular telephones, land mobile
radio products and systems, and Mobitex wireless data communications
products and systems for global markets. Ericsson also markets
cellular systems in North America.
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Contact: Martin L. Schoffstall
Vice President & CTO
Performance Systems International, Inc.
11800 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 1100
Reston, VA 22091
Voice: 1 800.82PSI82
+1 703.620.6651
Fax: +1 703.620.4586
E-Mail: in...@psi.com