[bionet.software] New Very Fast Net: Is it Real?

hanusj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu (Joe Hanus - Botany) (03/23/91)

I hear from relatively unreliable sources that new and much
faster net facilities are on the way; something called National
Science Network.  Can anyone enlarge on that?


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kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (03/23/91)

Joe,

	There is much discussion under way about NREN, the National
Research and Education Network, including tlak about upgrading the
speed of the NSFNET backbone.  An article about the last developments
appeared in Science a few issues back (sorry but I don't have accesss
to any right now).  Perhaps someone at NSF has some information in
electronic form that they could post to this newsgroup.

Dave Kristofferson

gallo@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Gallo) (03/27/91)

<previous post about proposed high speed network

Up on Compu$erve in the TELECO area there is an archive on this
subject. It is a bill before the 102nd Congress which describes the
purpose, proposed allocation etc. for the new network. Type "go
TELECO" and snoop around the network libraries; try searching on
NREN*

<Chip Gallo>