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- 012.17 The UNINETT SAMSON Project
- by Peter Hausken
- <Peter.Hausken@samson.uninett.no>
-
- UNINETT is the Norwegian network for education and research. The
- goal of the SAMSON project is to provide network access to all
- higher education (120 units) in Norway by the end of 1992.
- Coordinating student applications for higher education (12th year
- and upwards) is the initial goal of the project, but SAMSON will
- eventually give the institutions access to all UNINETT services
- including SMTP and X.400 electronic mail, FTP file transfer,
- X.500 directory services, Telnet and TN3270 virtual terminals,
- and the Internet Gopher information system.
-
- For those institutions not already connected to the network (80
- sites), the project has bought equipment, ordered leased lines
- from the Norwegian Telecom and will install it preconfigured with
- all services at the schools. A Hewlett-Packard series 9000 model
- 705 will function as a postoffice, Domain Name System server,
- information server, and as a workstation. A HP ER Router will
- transfer TCP/IP traffic between the LAN and UNINETT.
-
- Both the UNIX machine and the router will be managed over the
- network from the computing centers at the universities. Network
- management is done by SNMP and UNIX management by Palantir
- (developed at the University in Oslo). UNIX software will be
- maintained using track. This is done to make it possible to
- operate a UNIX machine at sites with no UNIX knowledge.
-
- The network is organized with network hubs in each county
- connecting to the four Norwegian universities located in Oslo,
- Bergen, Trondheim, and Tromso.
-
- Most schools already has various Personal Computers and a local
- area network. UNINETT services will also be available on these
- machines using public domain TCP/IP programs or commercial
- products. User support at the schools is done by the local
- computer staff, who is supported by the University computing
- centers. Training is given by UNINETT and the Universities.
-