[1709] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: nsfnet as large-scale testbed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Lewis)
Fri Dec 13 06:01:26 1991
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1991 12:01:25 GMT
From: Matthew Lewis <matthew@ooc.uva.nl>
To: comint@psi.com
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>Who says? Europe may be doing a lot of research, but no deployment. You can't
>even get a 2.4k modem line to stay up longer than 5 minutes over here.
>Reliability? Nope. Service. Double-nope.
>
I think that there is a drastic misconception here. The state of
internetworking here in Europe may not be comparable to a T3 backbone, etc,
but nearly all Western European countries are connected via (at least)
56kbs lines. If anyone is interested in seeing mreo, there are the RARE
maps available at nic.eu.net (a.k.a. mcsun.eu.net), where all the
connections (out of date, of course - three to four months old :-) are
detailed.
>There is no significant high speed-wide area networking (I'm talking about
>19.2kbs, much less ANYTHING over 56kbs!) being done outside of the USA. End of
>story. There are always exceptions and I'm sure that this note will bring them
>
Exceptions are the countries which are capable of better and doing such a
bad job, judging from their availability. The UK is, as usual, playing bad
catch-up with the rest of the EC countries.
Matthew Lewis
Sys admin, CICT
Univ. of Amsterdam
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Internet: matthew@ooc.uva.nl The Netherlands
