Network

• internal ATM, FDDI, Ethernet (100, switch 10, share 10), AMP wireless
• external link through North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN)
• modem dial-in
• IGN: up to 56kbp X2 PPP
• 50+ modem direct link to our Cisco 4500 router
• no content like AOL, MSN
• full access to WFU resources its own news, mail server
• WFU: ~40 modem pool (supported until ?)
• 28.8kbps 758-4200 rollover to
• 14.4kbps 758-5814
• Video conference
• DeTamble through NCIH/NCIIH/NTIA
• satellite connection in the future
• IBM Video Access Node (VAN) MPEG1/MPEG2 realtime video encoder in addition to current MMX equipment

Detail description of the internal network architecture (vs the over-simplied version shown above)

References:

nice pictures from NCSA
NSF backbone from
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCMS/DigLib/text/technology/Visualization-Study-NSFNET-Cox.html
S-globe from
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
Users trying to pull into a Origin from
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Indices/Divisions/