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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s_e_s:
- Administrative:
- Westnet c/o
- Patrick J. Burns
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Colorado State University
- Fort Collins, CO 80523
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- Technical:
- Westnet c/o
- Carol Ward
- 3645 Marine Street
- University of Colorado
- Boulder, C0 80309-0455
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- _E-_m_a_i_l: westnet@SPOT.COLORADO.EDU
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (303) 491-1575 [Pat Burns], (303) 492-5860 [Carol
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- Westnet is a regional network with nodes in the states of
- Arizona, Colorado, southern Idaho, New Mexico, Utah and
- Wyoming.
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- Westnet is a Wide Area Network operating at moderate (56
- kbps) and high (T-1, i.e., 1.544 Mbps) data transmission
- capacities, providing connectivity from end nodes to the
- NSFNet backbone. Westnet has connections into the backbone
- at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in
- Boulder, Colorado, and at the University of Utah in Salt
- Lake City, Utah. The goal of Westnet is to provide the
- regional infrastructure to support research and scholarly
- activity.
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- The member organizations are universities, research labora-
- tories, and commercial organizations. Westnet is governed
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- The information in this section is provided in accor-
- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
- of this guide.
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- June 30, 1989 NNSC Section 5.13, Page 1
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- by the Westnet Steering Committee, with representation from
- the seventeen primary university nodes in the six-state
- region.
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- A variety of organizations already participating in this
- network include: in Colorado: Ford Aerospace, the US Depart-
- ment of Agriculture, and US West Communications; in Idaho:
- the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory; in New Mexico:
- the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, the Apache Peak Observa-
- tory, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Sun-
- spot Observatory, Rockwell International, and the Santa Fe
- Institute; and in Utah: the UMC Research Station.
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- Westnet interoperates with the state networking agencies of:
- AriZona Telecommunications Educational Cooperative (AZTEC),
- Colorado SuperNet (CSN), and New Mexico Technet (NMT).
- State networking organizations are presently being con-
- sidered in Idaho and Utah. Westnet interacts with these
- state networks to provide access to special resources (for
- example, the NSF Phase II Supercomputer Centers) and to
- other regional networks (for example, Northwestnet in the
- northwestern region of the United States).
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _a_c_c_e_s_s
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- Any IP host of any member organization may access Westnet.
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- _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k
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- Any of the members can exchange traffic with any other
- member in the support of research, education and/or scho-
- larly activity. Any member may use any of the long-haul
- networks Westnet has connections to, subject only to the
- restrictions of the owner of the long-haul network. Members
- within the states of Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico may
- use the intra-state network for additional purposes particu-
- lar to those states.
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- _M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n
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- See also, Colorado SuperNet and New Mexico Technet.
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- June 30, 1989 NNSC Section 5.13, Page 2
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