Re: Alaska Gets A High Speed (OC-12) Connection to Internet2

1999? Oh how embarrassing. It just showed up on a RSS feed for "Alaska
Technology". I didn't even look at the date. In the words of the late
great Gilda Radner, 'Never Mind".
Bob

On 10/3/07, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007 17:58, Bob Cortez wrote:
> > Probably not news to most of you, but this is the first I have heard of
> it.
> > The University of Washington and WCI Cable Inc. are very pleased to
> > announce that WCI Cable, in support of the cooperative Pacific/Northwest
> > Gigapop and national Internet 2 efforts, is providing to the UW a
> > state-of-the-art fiber optic connection from Seattle to the University
> of
> > Alaska Statewide System in Fairbanks, Alaska. This connection will use
> > high-speed "SONET OC-12" technology, and will bring the new Internet 2
> and
> > NGI (Next Generation Internet) capabilities and technologies to Alaska.
> It
> > will link the University of Alaska to the Pacific/Northwest Gigapop,
> which
> > is the major national (and only high speed) Internet 2 network hub for
> the
> > region, and is located in Seattle.
> > http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=1570
>
> Hmm...when I read that, I thought, "Didn't we already have an OC-12?" (I
> was a
> UA student and/or employee for several years, so was in the
> networking "circles" for quite a while.) When I saw the date on the
> article:
> April 2, 1999. :) But it's still cool that we have it. Granted,
> commodity
> internet doesn't go over that link, but when you're on campus, and you're
> downloading from a mirror hosted on a university system, you can get
> *blazing* download speeds.
>
> j
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