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- CERFNet - California Education and Research Federation Network
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- CERFnet
- c/o San Diego Supercomputer Center
- P. O. Box 85608
- San Diego, CA 92186-9784
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- _E_m_a_i_l: help@cerf.net
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (619) 455-3900
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- The California Education and Research Federation Network,
- CERFnet, is a data communications regional network that
- operates throughout California. The purpose of CERFnet is
- to advance science and education by assisting the inter-
- change of information among research and educational insti-
- tutions through high-speed data communications techniques.
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- CERFnet was launched in the spring of 1989 with a $2.8 mil-
- lion grant from the National Science Foundation. CERFnet
- links fifty of the leading research and education centers in
- California at data transfer rates of up to 1.544 megabits
- per second (T1). The CERFnet backbone nodes are located at
- UCLA, UC Irvine, SDSC, Caltech, and the UC Office of the
- President in Oakland, California. CERFnet membership is
- open to all organizations in California, including any
- university, college, industrial or government facility, hos-
- pital, or library.
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- CERFnet offers several different connection options. A CERF
- 1544 (1.544 Mbps), CERF 56 (56 kbps) or CERF 9.6 (9.6 kbps)
- entitles the subscriber to a dedicated leased circuit.
- CERFnet offers DIAL N' CERF, a dial-up SLIP service to the
- network. DIAL N' CERF subscribers connect to the network by
- dialing up the nearest backbone node and logging on to a
- CERFnet terminal server.
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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 24, 1992 NNSC Section 5.34, Page 1
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- CERFnet also provides twenty-four-hour network surveillance
- and technical consulting, a telephone hotline ((619) 534-
- 5087), weekly and monthly reports on network activity, a
- bimonthly newsletter, and CERFnet-sponsored seminars. In
- addition, CERFnet operates a Network Operations Center,
- located at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and a Network
- Information Center (NIC).
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- _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
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- CERFnet supports the TCP/IP protocol suite. Various docu-
- ments, including miscellaneous information on CERFnet, are
- available on the CERFnet NIC. These are available via
- anonymous ftp to NIC.CERF.NET. There are several subdirec-
- tories: cerfnet_news, cerfnet_info, cerfnet_guide, and
- cerfnet_stats, which contain information such as the CERFnet
- bimonthly newsletter, acceptable use policy, brochure, and
- user's guide. (The CERFnet NIC is a UNIX-based workstation.)
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- Any IP host on the Internet may access CERFnet sites. Use
- of the network is governed by an acceptable use policy. A
- copy of this policy is available on request.
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- For more information please contact:
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- Karen Armstrong McKelvey
- mckelvey@sds.sdsc.edu
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