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NSFNet, the first Internet backbone
Skills: none
IT concepts: backbone network, history of networking
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology (communication)– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation (audio)
ProjectCost
($Million)
Morse telegraph .03
ARPANet 25
CSNET 5
NSFNet backbone 57.9
NSF US higher education connections 30
NSF international connections 6
123.93
Your tax dollars at work – a good investment
Decommissioned in April, 1995, linking
28,470 domestic and 22,296 foreign networks.
NSFNet was global and successful
Designed by highly qualified researchers
NSFNet succeeded because it was ….
Financiallyleveraged
A dumb network
Seeding Networks: the Federal Role
NSFNet project Final Report 1987-1995
New York Times coverage of the 20 th anniversary of NSFNet
NSFNet resource material from NSF
Further reading
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