I am pleased to announce that this morning, we successfully completed the Phase 5 ANSNet deployment. The major changes accomplished in this upgrade were: o Upgrade of all DS3/HSSI router serial interface adapters (T3 CNSS and ENSS) to support full DS3 bandwidth. The router adapter bus interface cards were also upgraded to double the packet switching rates per interface. o The T3 DSUs on each DS3 interface were replaced with T3Plus BMX45 bandwidth managers on T3 CNSS-CNSS circuits and Larscom Access-T45 DSUs on a T3 ENSS-CNSS circuit. o The architecture for interconnection among CNSS routers at each MCI POP location was upgraded to a common FDDI ring from the original point-to-point links architecture. As a result of this upgrade, we have 17 backbone links and 21 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 * Wash DC - Greensboro Backbone Link * New York - Wash DC 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 * Hartford - Cleveland Backbone Link * New York - Hartford 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.). * ENSS133 at Ithaca (PSI, Cornell) * ENSS134 at Cambridge (NEARnet, Alternet, MIT) ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.) * ENSS136 at College Park (SURAnet, Alternet, MAE-East, U of M, 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) * ENSS145 at College Park (FIX-East) * ENSS146 at Arlington (ARPA) ENSS172 at Albuquerque (Phillips Laboratory) ENSS179 at Albuquerque (Sandia National Labs) (*) upgraded this morning during Step 6 (of 6) of the deployment. Happy holidays to all from all of us at ANS, -Ittai