NSF Opens High-Speed Computer Network.

Marshall, Eliot

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ERIC Number: EJ387885

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Publication Date: 1989

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NSF Opens High-Speed Computer Network.

Marshall, Eliot

Science, v243 n4887 p22-23 Jan 6 1989

Describes the formation of the supercomputer system which reaches from Seattle to South Florida. Explains the major obstacles of international protocols, billing, priority routing, and security. (RT)

Descriptors: Communications, Computer Networks, Computers, Database Producers, Databases, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Networks, Information Processing, Information Services, Information Transfer, Man Machine Systems

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Language: English

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