Commercial TCP/IP WAN Service
Martin L. Schoffstall
networking service in the Washington, DC area
(CAPNet SM ) and Northeast (NYSERNet SM ).
Reston, VA, January 1, 1990 - William L.
Schrader, President & CEO, Performance Systems
International, Inc. (PSI), today announced his organi-
zation's new networking services in the Mid-Atlantic
and NortheastJstates. "PSI's services will provide
mature information technology to business and
industrial applications now dependent on electronic
communications, data handling and computing."
CAPNetSM, a new Wide Area Network (WAN) service
in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, has been
established by PSI and was brought into operation
today.
The services being provided initially include WAN
integration into customer Local Area Networks
(LAN's) primarily using the TCP/IP and OSI computer
networking protocols. This turnkey service will
minimally support electronic mail, file transfer and
remote terminal access for users at the member site.
These services are augmented by training,
consulting, individual dialup access, electronic
WhitePages Directories, and UUCP Mail and News.
PSI has also signed a $10 million, five-year contract
with NYSERNet, Inc., a non-profit company in New
York State supporting research, development and
education, to provide networking services for the
current and anticipated NYSERNet membership. In
the first quarter of 1990, PSI will be providing these
services throughout New York, New England, and
the Mid-Atlantic states.
Access can also be provided to national and inter-
national networks, called the "Internet", which today
supports over one million daily users as well as
electronic mail access to ten million others. General
Internet access will be provided to institutions which
are approved by appropriate government agencies
as has been the case since the Internet's inception.
PSI's entry into this marketplace is another example
of how the research and development community
progressed from being served by prototype work and
products delivered primarily by academic organiza-
tions to more cost-effective and reliable commercial
service. This was seen during the eighties with
commercial workstation products developed during
the seventies.
PSI's organization includes veteran networking
professionals. PSI was founded by William L.
Schrader and Martin L. Schoffstall, who previously
co-founded NYSERNet, Inc. where they served as
President & CEO and Vice President respectively.
All NYSERNet technical and related professional
support staff have been hired by PSI.
PSI Corporate headquarters and research &
development groups are located in Reston, Virginia.
PSI network operations is centered in their Albany,
New York facility.
Software technology and service development work
will continue by PSI on projects begun earlier by
NYSERNet, Inc., including SNMP network manage-
ment software, X.500 Directory services, X.400
multimedia mail services, Z39.50 bibliographic
retrieval, in addition to other new technologies.
CONTACT: Martin L. Schoffstall
Vice President
Performance Systems
International, Inc.
P.O. Box 3850
Reston, VA 22091
703.620.6651
in...@psi.com