Microsoft has delved still deeper, entering alliances with companies along the entire payments chain - NPCH, network provider
GEISCO, and merchant processor NABANCO - to enable businesses using its software to transfer funds electronically.
UCS services are available through McDonnell Douglas's EDI-Net,
GEISCO's Mark-Net, Informatics General's Ordernet Services and through proprietary networks.
Remote-Computing Services Survivors--There will be additional new services announcements from the "traditional" suppliers of remote-computing services, as firms like
GEISCO, BCS and McAuto move more and more into direct competition with established VAN suppliers.
Dun & Bradstreet, for example, now has Dunsnet and
GEISCO has Marknet.
Interconnection are maintained with the domestic networks on Tymnet, GTE Telenet and General Electric Information Services Company (
Geisco).
These service providers include the IRCs (RCA, MCI, FTCC, Western Union, TRT and ITT), AT&T and other DDD or DDS providers, and value-added networks such as Tymnet, Telenet,
Geisco and CSC.