[2291] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NREN: whither connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Wed Feb 5 13:34:37 1992
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe2@BBN.COM>
To: bzs@world.std.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9202031608.AA14733@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 13:24:52 EDT
>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 11:08:29 -0500
>From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
>
>Lew Law, Scott Bradner and I put the 10Mbps link between Harvard and
>BU around 1986 (maybe it was 1987.)
That link went operational in December 1987. Perhaps your memory of the
exact time of that event is hazy because, aside from helping with the
initial introductions at lunch, you had nothing to do with the concept,
engineering, installation, testing, and later development of that
microwave link into a NEARnet operational facility.
--Kent
