[UFO Chicago] From Last Night's UFO Meeting: Role of MERIT in NSFNET

[Neil R. Ormos]

>From Last Night's UFO Meeting:  Role of MERIT in NSFNET

A brief and oversimplified digest (by me):

In 1987, a consortium of Merit, IBM, and MCI won
an award to design, build, and operate a new
NSFNET backbone, replacing an existing, much
slower backbone infrastructure.  This new backbone
was operational by mid-1988, was upgraded over
time, and operated under Merit leadership until
the NSFNET backbone was decomissioned on April 30,
1995.

Details available in:

Fraser, Karen D.,
NSFNET: A Partnership for High-Speed
Networking--Final Report--1987-1995

  <http://www.merit.edu/nrd/nsfnet/final.pdf>

Enjoy...

--Neil