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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 > [email protected] > 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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