Sequent Computer Systems Inc has beaten Digital Equipment Corp, Control Data Systems Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc to an order for the Russian Relcom electronic mail network. The installation comprises four Sequent S2000/200 processors, 5Gb of storage and 64Mb of RAM and will help modernise the network’s central communications node, which is causing serious bottlenecks and long delays in sending local messages. Communications company and networker Relcom expects the Sequent machine to give the node four times the power. The new computer was supplied by hardware reseller and software developer, LVS (Moscow), business partner for Sequent and Oracle Corp in Russia. Sequent’s other big customer in Russia is the Consolidated Bank (Moscow). Meanwhile, Relcom users are to get their first international on-line service. The company has opened an international line to Western Europe via Amsterdam with high speed modems in both Amsterdam and Moscow. Previously, Relcom had only a dial-up line to Finland and ad hoc arrangements to complement it.
