[off-topic] old NSFNET regionals?

Wed May 28 02:32:49 UTC 1997

> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 20:26:11 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ben Black <black at zen.cypher.net>
> To: Alan Hannan <hannan at bondage.bythetrees.com>
> Cc: Tung-Hui Hu <hhui at arcfour.com>, nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: [off-topic] old NSFNET regionals?
> 	[...]
>     MRNet       Minnesota        Minneapolis           MRNet
      ^^^^^
MRNet never had its own NSFNET Backbone node.  Rather it connected
via a 56kbps link to the node at UIUC.  The link was later upgraded
to T1 until MRNet migrated to CICNet.

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).

-tjs