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- PRESS RELEASE FG/ 9 Feb. 1993
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- Ebone provides Megabit IP backbone
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- At the Ebone consortium meeting on Feb. 3 in Luxembourg the partners
- finalized to budget, decided on an upgrade of the backbone, set up the
- organization to operate Ebone in 1993, and confirmed Ebone's long term
- strategy.
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- 21 partners have confirmed their commitment to the budget which covers a
- backbone connecting six backbone sites, nine additional access lines
- and three links to the US. Ebone is thus used directly for their
- international IP traffic by partners in virtually all Western European
- countries and indirectly by several other countries linked to the Ebone
- partners. In addition, Ebone will be used for pilot CLNS traffic.
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- At the meeting, a plan to upgrade part of the backbone was decided.
- This means 1.5 Mbps from Stockholm to Washington and to Amsterdam, 1.5
- Mbps from Amsterdam to Geneva, 1 Mbps from Geneva to the US and 2 Mbps
- from Geneva to Paris, and 1.5 Mbps from Paris to Washington. The US
- links are provided in cooperation with NSFnet and other US IP
- providers. In addition, 256 kbps links from London to Paris and to
- Stockholm are being considered for upgrade and the inclusion of a
- London to Washington link is being investigated. A new backbone site
- in Bonn has been decided and one in Vienna is being investigated. With
- this much needed upgrade Ebone can more confidently transport traffic
- from the rapidly growing number of IP hosts in the partners' networks.
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- Kees Neggers was re-elected as Ebone chairman and an executive
- committee consisting of Dennis Jennings, Phil Jones, Christian Michau,
- Dave Morton, Kees Neggers, Peter Rastl and Peter Villemoes was
- appointed. Funded staff which will assist the executive committee and
- operate the network includes Frode Greisen as (part time) general
- manager, Bernhard Stockmann as (part time) chairman of the Ebone action
- team which is planning Ebone development, and Peter Lothberg as Ebone
- operations center manager assisted by full time staff at KTH in
- Stockholm and part time staff at each of the six Ebone backbone sites.
- RARE is providing the secretariat support for the consortium.
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- The meeting also confirmed Ebone's long term strategy to concentrate
- in the future on providing a neutral interconnect for all networks,
- while it is assumed that privision of backbone services will be
- offered by one or more (competing) providers in the longer run. Until
- such offers are forthcoming, Ebone will take care of its partners'
- needs in this area too.
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- Frode Greisen <NEUFRODE@vm.uni-c.dk>
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