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Remote Access Status Report June
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alicia Allen)
Wed Jul 10 18:39:20 2002
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Project name: Remote Access Discovery Project
Project leader: Alicia Allen
Report date: June 2002
Submitted by: Alicia Allen
Web URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/remote/
Accomplishments past period:
- Reviewed data from the IS Survey
- Created chart of feedback from peer schools
- Created chart of information about service providers
- Began drafting the final report
- Met with AT&T re: AGNS
- Decided not to look into local ISPs
- Experimented with key services with various providers, tried AT&T dialer
- Decided that one result of this project would be a guide to local
high speed service providers for the MIT Community
- Looked into possibility of 800 number for Tether
- Determined that JADE information will not be relevant to our
project for Tether costs
Goals for the coming period:
- Meet with Sprint
- Conference call with Wake Forest staff who current use AT&T AGNS
- Draft the guide to high speed service providers
- Continue to test and experiment with various providers, narrow list
of providers
Next community milestone:
- Release of final report
Issues:
- Several members of the team will be at conferences during July, slowing work
Key learnings:
- You can't get everything you want from one service provider, even
those that appear to have everything you want are actually separate
companies under one name. Eg., AT&T Broadband and AT&T Business
Class dialup are completely different companies and we would need to
work with different people to get arrangements with both.
Team dynamics:
- This team works very well together. Meetings are short and productive.
Additional comments:
We have gathered data on AOL, Compuserve, Earthlink & Worldnet ISPs,
and none of them seem to have what we are looking for. AT&T Business
Class service (AGNS) and Sprint Dial IP seem to be our best bets
right now.
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Alicia Allen
iggy@mit.edu
Telecommunications & Network Services, (617) 253-0191
Network Installation & Repair Team Leader page: alicia@skytel.com
MIT Network Security E19-741
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