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>>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

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