Sun Microsystems announced that China Internet (CIC) chose its technology to build the country's Internet
backbone. The Daily Spectrum, an industry newsletter, reported
CIC will purchase $15 million worth of Sun computers, equipment, and
interactive network computing technology for its
Chinese Internet-intranet network.
According to Sun, CIC was developed in order to employ the latest Internet
technology to create a reliable and secure national intranet, the
China Wide Web.