[44106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nipper, Arnold)
Mon Nov 5 11:09:53 2001
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From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
To: <dave@manbitesdog.de>, <swolff@cisco.com>
Cc: "Nigel Titley" <nigel@titley.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:07:46 +0100
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> steve wolff wrote:
> >
> > Few folks I guess recall the dial-up line that ran westward from Beijing
to
> > Karlsruhe that functioned in the early-to-mid '80s. It ran at 300 baud.
On
> > good days. -s
>
> Steve, sure I do and Arnold Nipper on the list will as well since he I
believe
> implemented it... Was it not 9.6? Later is X.25........
>
Dave,
when I joined the team of Werner Zorn in '89 the "China connection" already
was well established.
-- Arnold
Dave, just for the records: IIRC it were Michael Rotert, Gerd Wacker and
Michael Finken (both now/still?? Conware) who set up the CSNET connection to
Beijing. Must have been1985 or so.
