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SURAnet South East US Washington DC BBN SER (Maryland Suburbs) Technecal contact was Erick Sherk I beleve, last I heard he was at UUnet. James Lang, Former SURAnet NOC monkey and member of the BBN Smarties Ticket team ;) On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Rob Gutierrez wrote: > > >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. > > Does NSI (NASA Science Internet) qualify as one of those? Yeah, it was > 1989 when it started (Hi Milo!), but ... :) > > > Name Region NOC was or is at Now > > > > BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR > > ^SU then E. Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto > > The "NOC" (cough) was in Pine Hall at Stanford next to long-timer Ron Roberts > office. After the BBN buyout, NOC duties were officially given to BBN > Cambridge, somewhat bypassing the E. Bayshore/Palo Alto NOC office. The > western region NOC was supposed to open up (under the capable hands of Chris > Tsuboi, now with @Home), but time factors never gave Chris the chance > before his departure from BBN-WR. All calls went to Cambridge and were > referred to Chris as needed. The NOC office is/was still there > as a showcase to visitors in the large conference room. > > And ... > > > Network Contact in 1990, where are they now? > > > > BARRNET Paul Baer > > > > NEARNET John Rugo > > Paul Baer was part of the original BARRNet admin staff when William "Bill" > Yundt got the ball rolling. Paul came over to BBN after the buyout > on a consultant basis, but I don't know if he has stayed on at this > present day. Bill Yundt also came over to the BBN side, then went onward > with Web TV Networks. > > John Rugo was running NEARNet when he was asked to run BARRNet after > the buyout. After a 2-3 year stint in that position, he went on to > be on the senior management team at Cisco in their then new ISP group. > > The only people left from the original BARRNet at BBN-WR is Vince Fuller > and Bill Yundt's admin, Nora Lundin. > > rob. >
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