First Boston Details IT For New Facility; Series Of Cutovers Planned For Autumn

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CS First Boston will make only two significant changes to its trading room technology when it moves to its new headquarters at 11 Madison Ave. this fall. The bank will replace IPC turrets with systems from British Telecom and will reconfigure its local area network from shared Ethernet to switched Ethernet and fiber distributed data interface (FDDI).

As previously reported (TST, Feb. 6, 1995), the firm decided early on that it would be too great a risk to make substantial technological changes at

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