[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13968-13969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5708]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Broadband Content Delivery Forum, Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on July 25, 2000, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Broadband Content Delivery Forum,
Inc. 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 identifies of the parties are \24/7\ Media, Incorporated, New
York, NY; 2Wire, San Jose, CA; 3NO Systems Incorporated, Tinton Falls,
NJ; Akamai Technologies Incorporated, Cambridge, MA; AppsPoint
Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA; AT&T Broadband LLC, Englewood, CA; BANDWIZ
LTD., Tel Aviv, ISRAEL; Be Here Corporation, Cupertino, CA; Bertelsmann
Broadband Group, Hamburg, GERMANY; British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC), London, England, UNITED KINGDOM; Broadband Digital Group,
Incorporated, Newport Beach, CA; BroadJump Incorporated, Austin, TX;
BT, London, England, UNITED KINGDOM; Brust, San Francisco, CA; Cidera,
Laurel, MD; COLO.COM, Brisbane, CA; Context Media, Incorporated,
Providence, RI; Digital Fountain Incorporated, San Francisco, CA;
DSLnetworks.com, San Francisco, CA; Ellacoya Networks Incorporated,
Merrimack, NH; Entera, Fremont, CA; FirstMark Communications
International, London, England, UNITED KINGDOM; Funk Software,
Cambridge, MA; Global Telesystems Group (GTS), London, England, UNITED
KINGDOM; Gotham Broadband, New York, NY; Harris Corporation, Melbourne,
FL; Hewlett-Packard Company, Cupertino, CA; Huawei Technologies Company
Ltd., Shenzhen City, PEOPLE's REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Hughes Space &
Communications, Los Angeles, CA; ICTV, Incorporated, Los Gatos, CA:
iknowledge Incorporated, Lexington, MA: Image Power, Vancouver, British
Columbia, CANADA; iMagic TV Incorporated, Saint John, New Brunswick,
CANADA; Incanta Incorporated, Atlanta, GA; InfoLibria
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Incorporated, Waltham, MA; InfoSpace, Redmond, WA; Inktomi Corporation,
Foster City, CA; Innovatia, Saint John, New Brunswick, CANADA;
Interactive Enterprise, Dublin, IRELAND; Info Networks, Cambridge, MA;
Lucent Technologies, Alpharetta, GA; Massive Media Group, Santa Monica,
CA; Mirror Image Internet, Woburn, MA; Motorola, Mansfield, MA; MTVi
Group, New York, NY; Net Continuum, Santa Clara, CA; NetActive
Incorporated, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Network Equipment Technologies,
Fremont, CA; New Paradigm Ventures, Palo Alto, CA; Nokia Networks,
Petaluma, CA; Nomadix, Westlake Village, CA; Nortel Networks, Santa
Clara, CA; Northpoint Communications, San Francisco, CA; Omneon Video
Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; OneSecure, Santa Clara, CA; Path 1 Network
Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA; Peak XV Networks, Pleasanton, CA;
PixStream Incorporated, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; Pulsent Corporation,
Milpitas, CA; Redback Networks Incorporated, Sunnyvale, CA; Reliacast
Incorporated, Herndon, VA; Riverstone Networks, Reading, Berkshire,
UNITED KINGDOM; Seabridge, Hod Hasharon, ISRAEL; SkyStream Networks,
Mountain View, CA; Spacedisk Inc., Londonderry, NH; Speedera Networks,
Santa Clara, CA; Sprint Corporation, Westwood, KS; StarGuide Digital
Networks Incorporated, Reno, NV; Sun Microsystems Incorporated, Palo
Alto, CA; Svenska Bredbandsbolaget AB, Stockholm, SWEDEN; Syndeo
Corporation, Cupertino, CA; TelePacific Communications, Los Angeles,
CA; Telseon, Palo Alto, CA; Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX; TRW
Ventures, Redondo Beach, CA; Visual Media LLC, Chicago, IL; Williams
Communications Group, Tulsa, OK; World Com, Colorado Springs, CO;
XOSoft, Givataim, ISRAEL; Zhone Technologies, Oakland, CA; Zyan
Communications Incorporated, Los Angeles, CA; and Broadband Content
Delivery Forum, Inc., Mountain View, CA. The nature and objectives of
the venture are to be an open, nonprofit independent organization that
promotes the growth and development of the broadband content delivery
industry; to bring together parties who are contributing to broadband
content delivery; to discuss, to promote, and to develop the
applications and services market for broadband content delivery; to
explore methods for creating commercial benefits for service/content
providers and network operators while increasing value to the end-user;
to address issues relating to the development of broadband content
delivery, including, without limitation, the protection of intellectual
property rights, security, privacy, personalization, and economics; to
recommend and to develop open architectures to deliver rich, multimedia
content over the emerging broadband networks, to improve end-user
experience through improved performance and personalization; and to be
a liaison with other industry forums and associations in related
industries and related technologies.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-5708 Filed 3-7-01; 8:45 am]
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