Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Question about Internet access Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 03:54:15 GMT References: <1991May20.150134.11699@panix.uucp> <7679@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <3604@litchi.bbn.com> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Distribution: na Organization: The World Lines: 36 In-Reply-To: rsalz@bbn.com's message of 2 Jun 91 21: 26:59 GMT >>provided that non-research traffic is limited to NEARnet itself. It >>was created to provide high-speed 10M microwave links which didn't >>exist before the last couple of years... >NEARnet and Alternet now/will soon have a leased line, so commercial traffic >can be sent around. It's not limited to just academic and research organizations. I (and some others) put in the first 10Mb microwave link between BU and Harvard. It pre-dated NEARnet and was mainly just a spur of the moment experiment: We (BU) happened to have two of those dishes and accouterments which were originally slated for some other project (maybe it was to hook up the BU Med campus with the main one? I forget, it's not important.) Lew Law and Scott Bradner at Harvard should get credit for making their end happen. Kent England and staff at BU did a lot of the slog-work to get the dishes installed and working. The NEARnet/Alternet line is installed and just awaiting some router setup, should be up "real soon now". The T1 runs out of my office to MIT, so I hear about this constantly. >Nearnet was created because when the NSFNet proposal went around, everyone >in the area waited for MIT to sign up to create the regional network in >this area. Yeah, but they rejected my original proposed name, The New England Research and Development Network (NERDnet), too bad. I don't particularly remember that story you tell, but perhaps it's true. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD