August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 44m
English
The very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS)[10] project was created to provide a specialized backbone service for the high-performance computing users of the major government-supported SuperComputer Centers (SCCs) and for the research community.
On April 24, 1995, MCI and NSF announced the launch of the vBNS. MCI's duties include the following:
Establish and maintain a 155 Mbps or higher transit network that switches IP and CLNP and connects to all NSFNET-funded NAPs.
Establish a set of metrics to monitor and characterize network performance.
Subscribe to the policies of the NAP and RA managers.
Provide for multimedia services.
Participate in the enhancement of advanced routing ...
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