Email to SDSU participants 10-15-99 with a brief summary of the three day conference.
Oct. 99 Network Map of the Internet2/UCAID Abilene High Performance Network
The Fall Members Meeting of Internet2 was the site of powerful network demonstrations, for example, the live I2 Community works to identify and support the Middleware initiative, which began just one year ago with the Fall 1998 middleware initiative.
Dr. William Decker, NSF, actively participated in many of the sessions and
there was much discussion of the new NSF funding through the
Many of the sessions were broadcast live via MULTICAST, which the I2 multicast working group has made great progress with, and archived versions are to be available soon after the live broadcast.
Background:
Our OC3 connection was activated this summer (July 1999) and notifications were sent to the participants in the original
NSF proposal, as well as interested network authorities on the
SDSU campus.
Historically, February 26, 1998 is when NSF announced the award for vBNS
access for three California State Universities - Cal Poly Pomona,
Cal State San Bernardino and San Diego State University.
The CalREN2
network, coordinated by the Corporation for Education Network
Initiatives in California,
CENIC, was instrumental in
establishing the network connections, in the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
for this conference - connecting to the vBNS as well as Abilene.
Press releases from CENIC Press
give current background on this effort, focused in California. Of
particular interest is
CENIC participation in the
Internet 2 Fall meeting September 1998 which inaugurated the Abilene Network.