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NSFnet(National Science Foundation NETwork) The network funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, which linked five supercomputer sites across the country in the mid-1980s. Universities were also allowed to connect to it. In 1988, it was upgraded from its original 56 Kbps lines to T1 circuits. By the early 1990s, NSFnet was using a T3 backbone and served as the primary Internet backbone until 1995, when the Net became commercialized. See ARPAnet.
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Since the first academic and research Internet backbone, NSFNET by the National Science Foundation (NSF) was launched, a number of commercial backbone companies including PSINet, UUNET established the commercial Internet exchange (CIX) for the purpose of interconnecting these backbones and exchanging their end user's traffic. Gradually other networks developed, including NSFNet which connected the six NSF supercomputer centers in the United States. After 10 years of working with CERFnet to establish and promote the Western leg of the original NSFNet and most recently the company's IP infrastructure and web hosting activities within AT&T, I don't think I can be classified as a net newbie. |
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