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- THEnet - The Texas Higher Education Network
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- Texas Higher Education Network Information Center
- Office of Telecommunication Services
- Service Building, Room 319
- Austin, TX 78712-1024
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- _E_m_a_i_l:
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- Internet: info@nic.the.net
- BITNET: INFO@THENIC
- SPAN: UTSPAN::THENIC::INFO
- THEnet (DECnet): THENIC::INFO
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (512) 471-2444
- FAX: (512) 471-2449
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The Texas Higher Education Network (THEnet) was formed in
- 1986 through a combination of networking efforts at Texas
- A&M University, the University of Houston, the University of
- Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and the Univer-
- sity of Texas System. It covers the state of Texas, with a
- link to the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores
- de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. THEnet's goal is to pro-
- vide and advance the electronic exchange of information in
- support of the teaching, research, development, and related
- collaborative activities of the Texas higher education and
- research communities.
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- THEnet is not a homogeneous network utilizing a single net-
- working protocol. Rather it is a network of physical con-
- nections between and within organizations making various use
- of IP, DECnet, SNA, RSCS/NJE, and compressed digital video
- It provides researchers, faculty, and students the network-
- ing "tools" that they need for their particular situations.
- THEnet currently connects over 80 institutions, and consists
- _________________________
- 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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- August 6, 1992 NNSC Section 5.29, Page 1
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- of approximately 3000 DECnet nodes, over 10,000 IP hosts,
- appx. 150 BITNET nodes, and 10 IBM mainframe hosts connected
- over SNA.
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- Network Services
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- Network information and operations management are provided
- through the University of Texas (UT) System Office of
- Telecommunication Services (OTS). The OTS provides both
- network information center (NIC) and network operations
- center (NOC) services to THEnet member institutions.
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- Informative documents are available on node nic.the.net
- (Internet) via anonymous FTP, and THENIC (DECnet) via
- default DECnet file access. See the file THENET.INDEX for a
- list of available documents.
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- THEnet is an NSF regional network, with access to the NSFNET
- backbone through the NSS (Nodal Switching Subsystem) at Rice
- University in Houston. THEnet is connected to the Space
- Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) by DECnet routers at the
- University of Texas at Austin and NASA Johnson Space Center.
- Access to ESnet and HEPnet (ESnet-DECnet) is also provided
- through UT Austin, an ESnet backbone site. THEnet has
- external BITNET connectivity provided by Rice University via
- connections to the University of Missouri and Louisiana
- State University and by their participation in the BITNET II
- project (NJE over the TCP/IP-based Internet).
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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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- Membership in THEnet is open to all institutions of higher
- education in the state of Texas, as well as their affiliated
- research institutions. Commercial institutions which can
- demonstrate an education or research relationship to any
- THEnet higher education member are also eligible to join.
- Queries about membership or additional information should be
- directed to the postal address or one of the electronic mail
- addresses given above.
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