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Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals
From: Erik Sherk <sherk () uu net>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:04:34 -0400
From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map () iphil net> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 19:16:01 +0800 (HKT) Sender: owner-nanog () merit edu Rob Gutierrez wrote:Does NSI (NASA Science Internet) qualify as one of those? Yeah, it was 1989 when it started (Hi Milo!), but ... :)Not really. Both NSI and ESnet backbones pre-date the NSF regionals and received no NSF funding, being funded by NASA and the Department of Energy, respectively. These were established as national backbones, independent of the NSFnet though both did peer with the NSFnet at FIX-East (at UMD and later at SURAnet) and FIX-West (at NASA-Ames). Milo was largely responsible for the FIX design which was the pre-cursor in many ways to the current MAE design and both locations were connected to the MAEs. It might be noted that both NASA and ESnet were originally primarily DECnet networks as they pre-date IP development by a little bit. They also, in there early forms (SPAN, HEPnet, and MFEnet) predate the NSFnet. FIX-West is still in business while FIX-East is being dismantled as I type as BBN Planet is moving out of the old SURAnet facility.
Yea, I was in the old NOC on friday and wrote a large ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ | SURAnet | | '86-'95 | | RIP | | | ------------- Of course, I had to cross out the 'RIP' and write 'ISIS' :-) Erik
Current thread:
- re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Rob Gutierrez (Jun 03)
- re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals James Lang (Jun 03)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Miguel A.L. Paraz (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Paul Love (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Kevin Oberman (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Erik Sherk (Jun 05)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Kent W. England (Jun 09)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Hans-Werner Braun (Jun 09)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Hans-Werner Braun (Jun 09)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Cathy Wittbrodt (Jun 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Paul Baer (Jun 03)
- Re: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Curt Howland (Jun 05)
- RE: the original thirteen NSFNET regionals Tony Hain (Jun 09)