[off-topic] old NSFNET regionals?
Sorry for the off-topic post. BTW, many thanks for the responses on a San Diego interexchange point. To summarize: CRL has a local access point that does FR and ATM up to DS3 speeds, and PCH is building one "in the next 8 weeks or so". Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks? Can you fix this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks. Name Region NOC was or is at Now SURAnet Southeast US Univ MD BBN SER NEARnet Northeast US MIT? BBN NER PREPnet Pennsylvania PSC merged w/ CICnet BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR CERFnet? South Calif SDSC TCG CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet Merit Michigan U Mich JvNCnet Middle states Princeton bought by verio NYSERnet New York ? THEnet Texas U Texas Thanks, -Tung-Hui Hu hhui@arcfour.com
Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks?
The what?
Can you fix this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks.
Name Region NOC was or is at Now -------- ------------- ----------------- --------------------- SURAnet Southeast US Univ MD BBN SER NEARnet Northeast US MIT? BBN NER PREPnet Pennsylvania PSC merged w/ CICnet BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR CERFnet? South Calif SDSC TCG CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet Merit Michigan U Mic n MIDnet MidWest UNL bought by Global Internet JvNCnet Middle states Princeton bought by verio NYSERnet New York ? THEnet Texas U Texas n WestNet Rocky Mountains CU ?? Dissolved (pretty sure)
Name Region NOC was or is at Now -------- ------------- ----------------- --------------------- SURAnet Southeast US Univ MD BBN SER NEARnet Northeast US MIT? BBN NER PREPnet Pennsylvania PSC merged w/ CICnet BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR CERFnet? South Calif SDSC TCG CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet Merit Michigan U Mic n MIDnet MidWest UNL bought by Global Internet
MRNet Minnesota Minneapolis MRNet
JvNCnet Middle states Princeton bought by verio NYSERnet New York ? THEnet Texas U Texas n WestNet Rocky Mountains CU ?? Dissolved (pretty sure)
Tung-Hui Hu supposedly said:
Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks? Can you fix this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks.
Name Region NOC was or is at Now
SURAnet Southeast US Univ MD BBN SER NEARnet Northeast US MIT? BBN NER PREPnet Pennsylvania PSC merged w/ CICnet BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR CERFnet? South Calif SDSC TCG CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet Merit Michigan U Mich JvNCnet Middle states Princeton bought by verio NYSERnet New York ? THEnet Texas U Texas
Thanks,
-Tung-Hui Hu hhui@arcfour.com
I am sure many of us remember them all too well. The original NSFnet backbone consisted of 6 sites (each of the 5 supercomputer centers and NCAR) which was about 85 or 86. Then in 87 or 88 the network was redesigned and upgrade to a T1 network. The number of site rose to 13 including the 5 supercomputer centers, Merit, NCAR, BARRNet, MIDnet, Westnet, NorthWestNet, SESQUINET, and SURAnet. NYUSERNet and JVNCnet we hooked in but were not officially part of the backbone. (they happened to be headquartered at two of the supercomputer sites so they got lucky) In 1990 or so the backbone was upgraded to T3's and NEARNET, Argonne National Lab, and SURAnet were added to bring the net up to 16 nodes. This was a brief history of where things were before the end of the NSFnet in 1994 and the transition to the three NAP points. See http://nic.merit.edu/nsfnet for more infor than you probably want. ---> Phil
On Tue, 27 May 1997, Tung-Hui Hu wrote:
Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks? Can you fix
Nah, they don't exist, just like the tooth fairy. :)
this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks.
Name Region NOC was or is at Now
CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet ^^^^^^^^ U Mich
You are missing NWnet, covering Pacific Northwest, with NOC at U of Washington, which has also been bought by Verio. There's also MIDnet, covering Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri etc, etc, which was bought by Global Internet, and Sesquinet, covering Texas and parts of southwest. -dorian
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