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- MIDnet - A Midwestern Regional Network
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- _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
- MIDnet
- 501 Building 113.1
- Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0202
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- _E_m_a_i_l: nic@westie.mid.net
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- _P_h_o_n_e: (402) 472-8971
- FAX: (402) 472-8486
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- _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
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- MIDnet is a Midwest regional research and education data
- communications network that provides access to the National
- Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) and to the Internet com-
- munity. Our purpose is to promote advances in research and
- education by providing low-cost, reliable, high-speed con-
- nectivity to educational institutions, non-profit organ-
- zations, and businesses interested in the advancement of
- research and education.
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- MIDnet's mission is to give individuals at member sites in
- the seven state region of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,
- Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota access to a broad range
- of advanced information resources such as large databases,
- supercomputers, libraries, data archives, and electronic
- mail.
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- MIDnet is an IP-based network running at speeds from 56 Kbps
- to T1 (1.544 mps), and currently connects sixty individual
- sites and two state networks using cisco and Proteon
- routers.
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- Major information resources include: the EROS Data Center
- (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), WUARCHIVE (Washington Univer-
- sity in St. Louis), see Section 3-10, National Severe Storms
- Laboratory (University of Oklahoma), ARCHIE server (Univer-
- sity of Nebraska-Lincoln) and on-line library catalogs and
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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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- September 10, 1992 NNSC Section 5.37, Page 1
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- Campus Wide Information Systems.
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- MIDnet is available to any IP host on the 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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- Any IP host at any member organization may use MIDnet as
- long as they abide by the MIDnet Acceptable Use Policy
- (AUP). Any Internet-connected host may access MIDnet members
- IP hosts under the same usage policy.
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- Network Operations Center (402) 472-5032 noc@westie.mid.net
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- Further information may be obtained via anonymous FTP from
- westie.mid.net, directory pub. Included in this information
- is the MIDnet AUP,membership list, maps, meeting notices and
- minutes.
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- September 10, 1992 NNSC Section 5.37, Page 2
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