[9553] in North American Network Operators' Group
the original thirteen NSFNET regionals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Tue May 27 22:13:27 1997
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 17:57:08 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
>Does anyone remember the NSF-sponsored regional networks? Can you fix
>this table--this is off the top of my head so I am missing a few networks.
Can I buy a vowel?
Name Region NOC was or is at Now
SURAnet Southeast US Univ MD BBN SER
NEARnet Northeast US MIT? BBN NER
^^^^BBN
PREPnet Pennsylvania PSC merged w/ CICnet
BARRnet Bay Area Stanford? Berkeley? BBN WR
^SU then E. Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto
CERFnet? South Calif SDSC TCG
Yes, CA Educational and Research Foundation network
NOC was at General Atomics facility near
UCSD
CICnet Midwest ? merged w/ PREPnet
^was UMich, then OSU
Merit Michigan U Mich
JvNCnet Middle states Princeton bought by Verio
^JvNC Supercomputer Center, then Princeton
NYSERnet New York ?
^NOC provided by contract ISP (now Sprint)
THEnet Texas U Texas still independent
MIDnet Midwest ? bought by
Global Inet
WestNet mid SW ? ?
NorthWestNet Northwest U Wash still independent
Those are the "original" thirteen. Then there were OARnet, NetIllinois,
PSCnet, SDSCnet, NCSAnet, UCAR, CSNET, cypressnet, several DoD research
nets and the FIXes ...
--Kent
