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- From: callahan@vax.oxford.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: What the State of Iowa is doing while EFF does the D.C. shuffle
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.053421.11488@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 05:34:21 GMT
- References: <CKD.93Jan20191149@loiosh.eff.org> <1993Jan21.051306.19635@netcom.com> <CKD.93Jan21114801@loiosh.eff.org> <C1805L.6x7@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <C1805L.6x7@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- > Here is a brief sketch of what the State of Iowa is currently doing.
- >
- > The Iowa Communications Network is a network of fiber being laid
- > to a `point of presence' in each of Iowa's 99 (rather smallish)
- > counties. From there, connections will be made to each of the
- > 3 State Universities, the dozen or so Community colleges, and other
- > interested private colleges. Then connections are envisioned to
- > all (~500) public school systems. Then connections to the state's
- > public libraries (roughly another 500). Also connecting will be
- > various state agencies and interested companies.
-
- Fascinating. Could you tell us more about the technical details?
- What speed are these links, what kind of traffic do they/will they
- carry, what are they used for?
-
- > John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
- > Systems Software Engineer
- > Project Vincent
- > Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
-
- Michael
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- Michael Callahan
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- callahan@math.harvard.edu
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