August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
The solicitation for the NSF project was to invite proposals from companies to implement and manage a specific number of NAPs where the vBNS and other appropriate networks could interconnect. These NAPs needed to enable regional networks, network service providers, and the U.S. research and education community to connect and exchange traffic with one another. They needed to provide for interconnection of networks in an environment that was not subject to the NSF Acceptable Usage Policy, a policy that was originally put in place to restrict the use of the Internet to research and education. Thus, general usage, including commercial usage, could go through the NAPs as well.
In NSF terms, a NAP is a high-speed ...
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