The 25 most powerful people in networking - JOE NACCHIO CEO, QWEST, 01/04/99

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

The 25 most powerful people in networking

Network World, 01/04/99

JOE NACCHIO CEO, QWEST

Qwest announced a record third quarter, in which total revenue and pre-tax earnings increased fourfold, and data service revenue grew 780% over the year-earlier period. Qwest cut its quarterly losses from $3.62 per share in the second quarter to 2 cents in the third. And Microsoft just announced it plans to invest $200 million in Qwest.

These stellar results are a testimony to Joe Nacchio's vision: convergence of data, video and voice services over a single high-speed broadband network that stretches 18,000 miles across the country and reaches 130 cities. Nacchio also plans to extend the network across oceans into Europe and the Pacific Rim, as well as into Mexico.

While Qwest started off as a provider of capacity to service providers, it has designs on the enterprise - just one more bold move on Nacchio's resume of bold moves.

Qwest appears to be the farthest along of any company when it comes to converging data, voice and video over IP, and the traditional carriers are standing up and taking notice. GTE has leased 15,000 miles of OC-192 fiber from Qwest. And Qwest was ready to sign up Ameritech and US WEST before the Federal Communications Commission shot those deals down.

No matter. With Nacchio at the helm, many are confident Qwest will find a way to stuff its network with traffic and bring convergence to a town near you.

NACCHIO'S CHALLENGE: An outspoken critic of ex-employer AT&T, Nacchio has a lot to do to make Qwest - now a stock market favorite - live up to its advanced billing.

And he has to do it before rivals like Level 3 and IXC Communications do.

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