BBN TO ACQUIRE BARRNet FROM STANFORD

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

>
>               Aquisition Would Merge Leading Internet Services
>                    For New England and San Francisco Bay Area
>
>CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 22, 1994 -- Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
> (NYSE:BBN) and Stanford University today announced that
>they have signed a letter of intent under which BBN would
>acquire the Bay Area Regional Research Network (BARRNet)
>from Stanford.  This agreement, when finalized, would allow
>BBN to merge its New England   NEARNETSM operation,
>which is the leading provider of Internet services in New England, with
>BARRNet, which is the leading provider of such services in the
> San Francisco Bay Area.  Financial terms were not disclosed.