Vectris Communications, a leading regional provider of Internetand data networking business solutions, is pulling Ohio andWisconsin into the DSL service area while adding more cities inKansas and Oklahoma. Vectris initiated its aggressive roll-out inApril, taking its services to 92 cities in eight states. By yearend, Arkansas and Michigan will be added to the customer base. Thecompany is targeting secondary markets in the central US for itsexpansion, according to company officials.

Meanwhile, BroadJump Inc. is teaming with Cisco Systems Inc. fora new provisioning solution to automate DSL service and reduce thewait time from ordering through billing processes. BroadJump is asoftware solutions leader for the intelligent deployment ofbroadband services.BroadJump intends to integrate its Virtual TruckInstaller to Cisco's Order-to-Service solution--a teaming designedto shave a wait of several weeks to a few days.

In yet another e-business collaboration, Austin-based BroadwingCommunications has signed a three-year, $8.7-million contract withCenter 7 Inc., a venture capital company of Novell founder RayNoorda. This collaboration is aimed at providing dedicated, secureIP VPN services, collated web-hosting capabilities and155-megabytes per second direct-line access.