This morning, we successfully completed the fifth of the six steps that comprise the Phase 5 ANSNet deployment. Just one more step left! We now have 13 backbone links and 16 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 Houston - Atlanta Backbone Link Atlanta - Greensboro Backbone Link Houston - St. Louis Backbone Link * Denver - St. Louis Backbone Link St. Louis - Chicago Backbone Link * Chicago - Cleveland Backbone Link * Cleveland - New York Backbone Link ENSS128 at Palo Alto (BARRnet, Stanford University) ENSS129 at Champaign (UIUC, CICnet) ENSS130 at Argonne (Argonne National Lab, CICNet) * ENSS131 at Ann Arbor (ANS AA, Michnet, CICnet, etc.) * ENSS132 at Pittsburgh (PSCnet, PREPnet, CMU, etc.). ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.) * ENSS137 at Princeton (Princeton University, JVNCnet) ENSS138 at Atlanta (Georgia Tech, SURAnet) ENSS139 at Houston (Sesquinet, Rice University) ENSS140 at Lincoln (MIDnet, Westnet, etc.) 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) The final step of the deployment is scheduled for December 18th: 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 We will be staggering the Hartford/Ithaca/Boston and DC/College Park upgrades to minimize network outages for those with dual connectivity. -Ittai