ANS

(ANS Communications, Inc, Purchase, NY) An ISP, Internet backbone and provider of private data network services, founded in 1990 as Advanced Network & Services, Inc., by IBM, MCI and Merit (consortium of Michigan universities). The original ANS was formed as a non-profit network services provider for NFSnet, but later added commercial customers through its for-profit ANS CO+RE (COmmercial REsearch) subsidiary.

In 1995, ANS CO+RE was acquired by AOL and changed its name to ANS Communications. The non-profit arm of Advanced Network & Services www.advanced.org) moved into Internet-based education. In 1997, WorldCom acquired ANS from AOL and completely absorbed it into its UUNET Internet subsidiary. In 2004, WorldCom emerged from bankruptcy as MCI.

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Ans is a Belgian municipality in the province of Liège.

As an acronym ANS may refer to:

Music

• ANS (album), a box set from the British band Coil
• ANS (single), a single by the British band Coil
• ANS synthesizer, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument

Transportation

• The station code of Ainsdale railway station in England
• The IATA airport code of Andahuaylas Airport in Peru

Media

• Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad, a Dutch student magazine
• ANS Group of Companies, a news organization in Azerbaijan

Science and technology

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA
• American Nuclear Society
• Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, a Dutch X-ray satellite
• Anthocyanidin synthase, an enzyme in the leucocyanidin biosynthetis pathway
• Authoritative Name Server, a DNS server
• Autonomic nervous system, part of the peripheral nervous system in the body

Other uses

• American Numismatic Society
• Amman National School, in Amman, Jordan
• Ansvarlig selskap, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model
• American National Standards, defined by the American National Standards Institute
• Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste, a Cambodian resistance group

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