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From: pkern@utcs.utoronto.ca (Paul Kern)
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Subject: Re: CA*net status
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 12:48:49 -0500
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In article <91Jan11.091912est.18503@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> EUGENE@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca (Eugene Siciunas) writes:
>The initial topology emulated two overlapping, not quite closed loops.
>With the tariff changes (reductions) announced by the CRTC last Dec 1,
>we have ordered more lines to "close the loops", specifically between
>Edmonton and Saskatoon, and St. John's and Charlottetown. This will
>provide redundancy, in that if one path to a node becomes disabled,
>it will still be reachable, (automatically) by data flowing to it
>from the other direction. This is expected to happen as soon as the
>new links are installed, hopefully before the end of January.
>


For those completely unfamiliar with CA*net (ie. some of those subscribed
to this newsgroup) the current physical topology looks something like ...


			Edmonton ......	Saskatoon
			   |		   |
			   |		   |
NSFNet@Seattle -------	Vancouver 	Winnipeg
			   |		   |
			   |		   |
NSFNet@Cornell =======	Toronto ------- Montreal ====== NSFNet@Princeton
			   |		   |
			   |		   |
			Fredricton	Halifax
			   |		   |
			   |		   |
		      Charlottetown .... St. John's

line legend:
---  56 kbps
=== 112 kbps
... "under contruction"