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- N-1-3-013.30, Israel, by Hank Nussbacher, <hank@vm.tau.ac.il>
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- Israel's network, ILAN, is expected to be upgraded to 128kb by the end
- of August 1992. In addition, one of its two 64kb international links,
- the one terminating at PSI in the USA, will also be upgraded to 128kb
- by the end of August. The link to CERN will remain currently at 64kb.
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- On the regulatory end, our government has finally authorized
- commercial R&D organizations as well as educational and cultural
- organizations to connect to the network. Previously, the operating
- license ILAN was granted was for a limited set of users, those in
- higher education and non-profit R&D. This change in government policy
- will allow our network to expand into a whole new area of users within
- Israel. The details for government subsidies, a pricing structure,
- rules of usage, as well as setting up a dial-in service provider is
- currently being finalized.
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- Current traffic levels run at about 64 Gbytes/month on a national
- level and about 30 Gbytes/month of data traffic interchanged with
- foreign networks.
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