Panel: Value Added Networks (Transcribed)

Introduction by Bill Ray - What Vio and WAM!NET represent are a pipeline between a front-end and a manufacturing system. At least that was what they originally represented. Now, with the pressures generated by the Internet and the advent or pending advent of much greater and much more cost-effective bandwidth direct to the end user these companies are reinventing themselves. This allows them to be both a competitor and an ally to the new E-commerce companies. We have with us Steven Wood who is the Vice President of Business Strategy for Vio and John Teeter who is the senior WAM!BASE specialist for WAM!NET. Steven will start us off.