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lee@wang.com (Lee Story) writes:
>2.  NEARnet, phone 617-873-8730, email jrugo@nic.near.net
>    (Research users only?)

NEARnet stands for "New England Academic & Research Network", though it's
not limited to research only.  Their January marketing blurb includes
in its target audience "development staff in industry" and "anyone whose
work requires interacting with members of [the research environment]".
It is working in cooperation with some commercial enterprises which have
little to do with research, so I suspect there really isn't a limitation,
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, between the six hub sites (Boston
University, Harvard, MIT, Lincoln Laboratories, Prospect Hill, and BBN)
and others which have more recently joined.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with NEARnet, so take these words with a
grain of salt.  I'm keeping in touch with those who are developing a
100M fiber-optic network in the Prospect Hill industrial park, which
should provide future access to NEARnet for my company.

-rich
(P.S.  Hi Lee, welcome to The Net!  How's Wang?)