[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 53 (Friday, March 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 13604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6681]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Transparent Optical Network Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 17, 1998, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''). National Transparent 
Optical Network Consortium (NTONC) has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties, and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are 
GST Telecom, Inc., Vancouver, WA; Lawrence Livermore National 
Laboratory, operated by the Regents of the University of California, 
Livermore, CA; Northern Telecom, Inc., McLean, VA; and Sprint 
Communication Companies L.P., Burlingame, CA. The nature and objectives 
of the venture are to engage in cooperative research in the area of 
high bandwith networking technologies to better understand the 
application of these technologies in the design, deployment and 
management of the next generation of Terabit per second networks, 
including without limitation prototype hardware and software deployment 
for the experimental demonstration of such networks.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-6681 Filed 3-18-99; 8:45 am]
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