FTS2000-Blueprint for a State-Of-The-Art Digital Network
01 January 1990
On December 7, 1988 the General Services Administration (GSA) of the United States awarded a contract to replace the existing Federal Telecommunications System (FTS). The existing FTS is the world's largest private telecommunications network, offering voice and voiceband data service to over 1.3 million end users at over 1300 locations. The new network, dubbed FTS2000, is a state-of-the-art integrated digital voice-data-image network with first service slated to begin in late 1989. FTS2000 will include switch voice service (including voice and voiceband data), switched data service (circuit switched capability including 56 Kbps and 64 Kbps clear), packet switched service (X.25 data service including packet and electronic mail), video transmission service (teleconference and teleseminar at full motion and near full motion), dedicated transmission, service, and ISDN (including BRI and PRI).