GST TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GST awarded DARPA contract to build next generation Internet.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 November 1998-GST TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GST awarded DARPA contract to build next generation Internet (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:231198 -- GST will manage west coast network for NTON Consortium GST Telecommunications, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSTX) in conjunction with the National Transparent Optical Network (NTON) Consortium, announced today that GST will provide the West Coast network backbone of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) SuperNet Program -- as part of a multi-agency program -- being led by the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

GST, along with members of the NTON Consortium, which includes Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and Sprint...