[2490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: my personal reality check on dual homing and backbone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Fajman)
Sat Apr 6 22:08:24 1996
To: doleary@cisco.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 21:57:37 EST
> As 1985 and 1986 progressed, the ARPAnet got more loaded as more sites
> came on, but I don't have any specific statistics. Cross-country links
> like the one we had through Pittsburgh (CMU, PSN #14) were apparently
> the real hot spot.
>
> BITnet was starting around then, too, mostly 9.6-19.2-56 kb links
> between IBM mainframes.
It's not important to your very interesting history, but I believe that
BITNET started in 1981. It was already up to more than 1000 nodes when
we joined in 1985 with a 56 kbps link to the University of Maryland.
I remember many of the events you describe, but from the perspective of
someone responsible for our connections. We got our SURAnet connection
up in early 1988 with a Proteon p4200 and a T1 line.
Roger Fajman Telephone: +1 301 402 4265
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