[off-topic] old NSFNET regionals?

Wed May 28 04:07:17 UTC 1997

On Tue, 27 May 1997, Tim Salo wrote:

> A different form of the question is: Where were the NSFNET backbone
> nodes located?  There was an odd mapping between backbone nodes
> and regionals, (e.g., some sites which hosted NSFNET backbone
> nodes created regionals, other sites didn't, and some regionals,
> typically those formed later, didn't have their "own" backbone
> nodes).

I seem to recall that each case was "special" in its own way, and no two were
alike. For example, CICNet connected to NSFnet at NSF nodes in Ann Arbor (U
of Mich + Merit), Chicago (Argonne National Labs) and Champaign (UIUC + NCSA)
typically by sitting on the DMZ FDDI off of the NSSes.

-dorian