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John J. Buxbaum writes: > > Mark, > You have been told by the State who you have to use as a provider? If not an outright mandate, the "auxiliary funding" provided to each campus for information infrastructure upgrades was an offer too good to refuse. CSUnet/4Cnet is a state-created and funded entity serving public educational institutions within the state of California. Quoting from http://www.4c.net/4CNet_mission.html: In 1984, the California State University (CSU) system established "CSUnet", a dedicated data network linking each of the campuses of the CSU. The network was created as one of several efforts to meet the increasing information technology demands of the University system and its campuses throughout the State. CSUnet continually modified and expanded its programmatic functions and technical resources to keep current with state-of-the-art inter-network services and applications. CSUnet's purpose has been to serve the University's academic and administrative mission, goals and objectives in ways that exploit centralized and distributed information resources. The State of California authorized auxiliary funding in the 1996-97 fiscal year to the California Community Colleges (CCC) "to assure that each of the 125 (campus and district office) sites have established necessary infrastructure capability for teleconferencing, connections to CSUnet and satellite downlink" capabilities. In response to this funding allocation, the CSU and CCC have implemented a working relationship to create the California State University and Community College Network, 4Cnet. The role of 4CNet expands the role of CSUnet to the Community College Environment. It is the purpose of 4Cnet to serve the academic and administrative mission goals an objectves in ways that exploit centralized and distributed information resources for the separate and combined California State Universities and Community Colleges. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Bixby <[email protected]> > To: netops <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Non-ISP companies multi-homing? > > > > >netops writes: > >> > >> Does anyone know of any non-ISP companies that have decided to > >> multi-home? Is this a major trend for non-ISP companies running > >> mission-critical applications on the Internet? > > > >We will be going multi-homed in about 2 weeks because the state of > California > >has mandated that all community colleges sign up with 4C.net, but we don't > >want to give up our existing CERF.net connection. -- Mark Bixby E-mail: [email protected] Coast Community College Dist. Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/ District Information Services 1370 Adams Ave, Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626-5429 Technical Support +1 714 438-4647 "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
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