A random sample of some Countries and organizations using nntpcache

	Transmeta corporation Founded in 1995, Transmeta is a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California. Transmeta develops, in concert with OEM customers, platform solutions for the Mobile Internet Computing market. Transmeta's premier product line is the Crusoe processor for a new class of ultra-light mobile computers. The x86-compatible Crusoe solution is the only processor built to combine PC and Internet software compatibility with high performance and extremely long battery life.
	Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a security organization whose 55 participating States span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok. In its region it is the primary instrument for early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE approach to security is comprehensive and co-operative. It deals with a wide range of security issues, including arms control, preventive diplomacy, confidence and security-building measures, human rights, election monitoring and economic and environmental security.
	The Swedish IP Network SWIPNET and its partner, the telecommunications company Tele2 are the largest internet service provider in Sweden and one of the largest IP providers across all of Europe.
	Belarus Centre for Information Technology CIT are based in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, a small country between Russia and Poland. They do software development, web site development, and electronic commerce.
	CCI Europe CCI Europe is one of the world's leading developers and suppliers of editorial and advertising  solutions for the newspaper industry. CCI Europe is part of the 200-year-old and successful Aarhuus Stiftsbogtrykkeries Fond,  a Danish foundation under royal charter.  Their headquarters is Århus, a lively university city of Denmark.
	Cisco Systems Inc Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Based in San Jose, California, it also has major operations in Research Triangle Park, NC,  and Chelmsford, MA; as well more than 225 sales and support offices in 75 countries.
	Corbina Telecom Corbina Telecommunications is the first and the only full service telecommunications company  in Moscow including voice, data, internet, computer telephony, calling cards, design,  installation and maintenance of telecommunication systems.
	Cyberia Cyberia is a Transmog SAL trademark that was created to provide the Lebanese market with  Internet solutions. Cyberia's services include Internet Access, Online Publishing, and  Corporate Access Solutions. Since its launch in summer of 1996 Cyberia has managed to grab the  largest market share and is currently the leading Internet solutions provider in Lebanon. Based in Beirut, Lebanon.
	Eurocontrol STK Eurocontrol - The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation - was founded in 1960 with  the objective to create a common European ATC (Air Traffic Control) environment. Eurocontrol is present in Karlsruhe since 1974 to implement an ATC Centre in Karlsruhe, in the  south west of Germany. This centre should control the upper air space of southern Germany, and originally  also parts of the air space in the neighbouring countries.  The STK - Software Team Karlsruhe - is the  remainder of the Eurocontrol team in Karlsruhe since the centre was "nationalised" in 1983, when the  BFS (Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung) took over the responsibility for the ATC operations.  In 1993 the German ATC was "privatised" and the DFS (Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH) is now performing  the ATC tasks also in Karlsruhe. The STK is now only maintaining the software used by the ATC system
	Gweepnet GweepNet is the networking effort of several people.   It started in the Worcester, MA area with a one-line BBS running off of a Convergent Miniframe machine.  Presently, about three dozen machines (ranging from archaic abandoned machines to current technology) are  connected by ethernet, SLIP, PPP, ISDN, T1, and other methods. It now spans much of Massachusetts, with a  few legs reaching past state lines.  GweepNet grew out of GweepCo, which is simply a bunch of friends with a compatible set of interests,  including computers and networking. GweepCo is made up mostly of people who have attended Worcester  Polytechnic Institute at some point, though there are a few exceptions. The gweepnet servers act as  a giant virtual living room in which people hang out, converse, share ideas, and keep the systems and  network thriving.
	ihug ihug is New Zealand's largest independent Internet Service Provider.  One of their services is Satnet, a high-bandwidth Internet connection service, based on a satellite dish and PC card.  This allows you to connect to the Internet at up to 6 Mb/s, which is easily faster than the  fastest analogue 56Kb/s modem or ISDN. The technology is well proven, and has been in operation since 1997.  ihug also offers a digital tv service called IDTV with 12 normal channels including Discovery, CNN, Fashion TV,  MCM music channel, CMT (Country Music Television), plus pay-per view movies,
	Internet Service Providers Consortium The Consortium was created mainly to supply Internet Bandwidth via leased-lines using a superb  frame-relay network spanning the UK.  It was formed by 19 independent ISPs as an alternative to EU-Net, and uses Cable Internet Limited (CIL), a newly formed Consortium of cable companies.  An initial ten Network Access Points (NAPs) throughout the UK were constructed and configured as  a Frame Relay Cloud (FRC) with full ATM. The cloud has four external connections: one to LINX at  10Mbps; one to New York, US at 45Mbps; one to Mae East in the US at 1.5Mbps and one into Paris  (onto the E-Bone) at 768Kbps.  It can also offer local call dial-in services in the UK, using a 0845 number.
	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven recently became the capital of the province Flemish-Brabant in Belgium.  It is a very historic town with various churches, monasteries and abbeys dating back to the 12th century, including The Last Supper by Dirk Bouts, hanging at the Saint-Peter's Church.  The University was opened by Pope Martin V in December 1425, making it the oldest existing Catholic University in the world.
	Mcmurdo Station McMurdo Station, located at 77 degrees 51 minutes S, 166 degrees 40 minutes E, is the largest  Antarctic station. McMurdo is built on the bare volcanic rock of Hut Point Peninsula on Ross Island,  the solid ground farthest south that is accessible by ship. The station was established in December 1955. It is the logistics hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program,  with a harbour, landing strips on sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad.
	NATO C3 Agency Consultation, Command and Control (C3) are essential to executing NATO's political and military missions.  Responsibility for Consultation rests with the NATO political authorities; responsibility for Command and  Control (C2) of NATO's assigned forces rests with the NATO Military Authorities (NMA). Achieving the necessary  integral C3 capability requires NATO and national personnel, NATO agreed procedures, and systems, services and  installations involving common-funded, multinational cooperative and national assets.  The North Atlantic Council (NAC) created a NATO Consultation, Command and Control Organisation, NC3O, in  July 1996.  There are offices in Brussels, Belgium and The Hague, Netherlands.
	nCipher nCipher is the leading developer of high performance hardware security products that scale to meet  the growing e-commerce and enterprise Internet security demands of today's e-businesses.  Products include nFast, nForce and nShield (hardware) and KeySafe and nCipher Software Developer Kits (software).  The UK, European and International Headquarters is in Cambridge, UK.  The US Headquarters is in Woburn, MA.
	Nyx Nyx is a public access Unix system that brings you as much access to the resources of Unix and  the world-wide network ("The Internet") as we can allow. It is a public computing equivalent to  public TV.  It also doesn't take itself too seriously. Nyx is a free, public system that provides  access to the Internet for users who otherwise cannot reach it. It is based in Boulder, Colorado and also has dial-ins for Denver.
	Philips Royal Philips Electronics is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest,  with sales of US$ 33.9 billion in 1998. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting,  electric shavers, color picture tubes for televisions and monitors, and one-chip TV products. Philips has offices in over 60 countries, but this web site is based in Amsterdam.
	Slovak Academic Network SANET is a non-profit organization founded in 1992 and supported by the Ministry of Education.  The main goal of SANET is to provide network connections for all universities and research communities  to Internet and to build an internal IP network infrastructure in Slovakia. SANET represents the Slovak  Republic in TERENA and CEENet.   At this time SANET is connected to Internet through two international IP links.  The first line connects the Banska Bystrica SANET node and the Prague CESNET node in the Czech Republic  and operates at 128kbps rate. The second line connects the Bratislava SANET node and Vienna EBS (EBONE)  in Austria and operate at 128kbps rate. Main IP traffic from SANET is routed through the line from Banska  Bystrica. SANET has one gateway to X.25 public network in Bratislava.  The main SANET backbone operate at the 64kps rate and connects the three largest cities in Slovakia:  Bratislava, Banska Bystrica and Kosice. The other main academic cities ( Zvolen, Zilina, Nitra, Presov,  Martin, Liptovsky Mikulas and Trnava) are already connected to this backbone either via 64kbps  or 19,2kbps line.
	Solaris Solaris has been an Internet Service Provider in St. Petersburg, Russia since 1991.
	Sprint Canada Sprint Canada Inc. is Canada's leading alternative long-distance telecommunications company,  offering voice and data services nationwide. With headquarters in Toronto, Sprint Canada operates  18 offices and employs more than 2,000 Canadians across the country.  Sprint Canada is owned by Call-Net Enterprises Inc., a rapidly growing publicly owned Canadian company  that creates and enhances value by developing opportunities in the telecommunications industry.
	Telecom Vanuatu Ltd TELECOM VANUATU LTD (TVL) is a private company owned in equal shares by the Government of the Republic of  Vanuatu, France Câbles et Radio S.A. (France Telecom Group) and Cable & Wireless plc.  Since 1990, TVL has invested well over 3 billion vatu to upgrade the whole of the telecommunications network,  now nearly fully digitalised.
	UNICO UNICO are specialists in the development, testing, enhancement and maintenance of High Availability,  High Throughput software systems, ranging from Intelligent Network (IN) platforms to on-course Totalisator  systems. Taking on complete systems responsibility, UNICO will work on a fixed price basis, and manage the  project from inception to end-user roll-out. Skilled people and efficient processes help safeguard our motto  of "Complex software on line, on time". Based in Melbourne Australia, UNICO has been in business since 1984,  and employs approximately 40 staff. The founding Directors continue to manage the company actively on a daily basis.

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