Phase 5 Status

Sat Nov 20 16:16:56 UTC 1993

This morning, we successfully completed the third of the six steps
that comprise the Phase 5 ANSNet deployment.  I am pleased to report
that we now have six backbone links and ten customer attachments
running at full T3:

	Seattle - Denver Backbone Link
	Seattle - San Francisco Backbone Link
	San Francisco - Chicago Backbone Link
	San Francisco - Los Angeles Backbone Link
	Los-Angeles - Albuquerque Backbone Link
	Albuquerque - Houston Backbone Link
	ENSS128 at Palo Alto (BARRnet, Stanford University)
	ENSS130 at Argonne (Argonne National Lab, CICNet) 
	ENSS135 at San Diego (CERFnet, SDSC, etc.)
	ENSS139 at Houston (Sesquinet, Rice University)
	ENSS141 at Boulder (Westnet, NCAR, U of Colorado, etc.)
	ENSS142 at Salt Lake City (WestNet, U of Utah, etc.)
	ENSS143 at Seattle (NorthWestNet, U of Washington, etc.)
	ENSS144 at Moffett Field (FIX-West)
	ENSS172 at Albuquerque (Phillips Laboratory)
	ENSS179 at Albuquerque (Sandia National Labs)

Additionally, ENSS200 provided full T3 connectivity to the
Supercomputing '93 show in Portland Oregon this past week.

The remaining steps are scheduled for December 4th, 11th and 18th,
at which point the Phase 5 Upgrade will have been completed.

4    12/04/93  E129  St. Louis  Champaign ENSS and St. Louis POP 
               E140  St. Louis  Lincoln ENSS and St. Louis POP 
               E138  Atlanta    Atlanta ENSS and Atlanta POP 
               ----  Greensboro Greensboro POP
               ----  Denver     2nd visit for Denver-St. Louis link upgrade 
               ----  Chicago    2nd visit for Chicago-St. Louis link upgrade 
               ----  Houston    2nd visit for Houston-St. Louis link upgrade 
                                      and for Houston-Atlanta link upgrade 

5    12/11/93  E131  Cleveland  Ann Arbor ENSS and Cleveland POP 
               E132  Cleveland  Pittsburgh ENSS and Cleveland POP 
               E137  New York   Princeton ENSS and New York POP 
               ----  Chicago    3rd visit for Chicago-Cleveland link upgrade 

6    12/18/93  E133  Hartford   Ithaca ENSS and Hartford POP 
               E134  Hartford   Boston ENSS and Hartford POP 
               E136  Wash D.C.  College Park ENSS and Wash D.C. POP 
               E145  Wash D.C.  FIX-East ENSS and Wash D.C. POP 
               E146  Wash D.C.  DARPA ENSS and Wash D.C. POP 
               ----  Cleveland  2nd visit for Cleveland-Hartford link upgrade 
               ----  Greensboro 2nd visit for Greensboro-D.C. link upgrade 
               ----  New York   2nd visit for NY-Hartford link upgrade 
                                  and for NY-D.C. link upgrade 

-Ittai