[1839] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Are All 16 NSFnet Nodes Live at T-3?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Thu Jan 2 18:56:04 1992
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: 2 Jan 92 18:34:18 EST (Thu)
From: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 02-JAN-92 18:34
cook@tmn
We have heard that the T-3 network has been doing fine since early
November. Now I had assumed that this meant at a minimum that all 16
nodes could send and receive at T-3. That for example a mid-level can get
packets from a university connected to it at T-1 and shoot them across the
backbone if that mid-level also is a backbone node - that it can send at
T-3 across that shiny new ANSnet NSFnet backbone. Sorry that that last
sentence is garbled I shouldn't be entering this live.
The T-3 map that Jordan kindly pointed out is dated October and shows all
16 nodes, plus the nodes for VPI, Perdue, and Concert. It gives the
impression that those nodes are all LIVE nodes.
Are they? If they are not yet all live nodes which ones are not yet
completely installed and when will installation be complete?
By the way, the Farnet recommendations to the NSF are quite fascinating.
I'll post some extracts later this evening.
