This morning, we successfully completed the third of the six steps that comprise the Phase 5 ANSNet deployment. I am pleased to report that we now have six backbone links and ten customer attachments running at full T3: Seattle - Denver Backbone Link Seattle - San Francisco Backbone Link San Francisco - Chicago Backbone Link San Francisco - Los Angeles Backbone Link Los-Angeles - Albuquerque Backbone Link Albuquerque - Houston Backbone Link ENSS128 at Palo Alto (BARRnet, Stanford University) ENSS130 at Argonne (Argonne National Lab, CICNet) ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.) ENSS139 at Houston (Sesquinet, Rice University) ENSS141 at Boulder (Westnet, NCAR, U of Colorado, etc.) ENSS142 at Salt Lake City (WestNet, U of Utah, etc.) ENSS143 at Seattle (NorthWestNet, U of Washington, etc.) ENSS144 at Moffett Field (FIX-West) ENSS172 at Albuquerque (Phillips Laboratory) ENSS179 at Albuquerque (Sandia National Labs) Additionally, ENSS200 provided full T3 connectivity to the Supercomputing '93 show in Portland Oregon this past week. The remaining steps are scheduled for December 4th, 11th and 18th, at which point the Phase 5 Upgrade will have been completed. 4 12/04/93 E129 St. Louis Champaign ENSS and St. Louis POP E140 St. Louis Lincoln ENSS and St. Louis POP E138 Atlanta Atlanta ENSS and Atlanta POP ---- Greensboro Greensboro POP ---- Denver 2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis link upgrade ---- Chicago 2nd visit for Chicago-St. Louis link upgrade ---- Houston 2nd visit for Houston-St. Louis link upgrade and for Houston-Atlanta link upgrade 5 12/11/93 E131 Cleveland Ann Arbor ENSS and Cleveland POP E132 Cleveland Pittsburgh ENSS and Cleveland POP E137 New York Princeton ENSS and New York POP ---- Chicago 3rd visit for Chicago-Cleveland link upgrade 6 12/18/93 E133 Hartford Ithaca ENSS and Hartford POP E134 Hartford Boston ENSS and Hartford POP E136 Wash D.C. College Park ENSS and Wash D.C. POP E145 Wash D.C. FIX-East ENSS and Wash D.C. POP E146 Wash D.C. DARPA ENSS and Wash D.C. POP ---- Cleveland 2nd visit for Cleveland-Hartford link upgrade ---- Greensboro 2nd visit for Greensboro-D.C. link upgrade ---- New York 2nd visit for NY-Hartford link upgrade and for NY-D.C. link upgrade -Ittai